Thread: 39 Ford (Coast to Coast) Rebuild

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Pinewood;It's great fun,I helped my son way back in time build a Pinewood in the late 1970's,he ended up winning both cub[he was one]and webalow<spell?the class above his too at County meet,for over all. And yes he polished the nails and rounded shaped the tires so they road on a small edge near the body that was all OK to do than,don't know about now?,he played with it so much before the races,the nail holes war out,so we had to make a slot and glue in small brass tube in the body block and bang the nails into it,to hole them in place,he had sanded long and hard to get his teardrop body shape and painted and polished it very nice<was really aero. Someone saw the the tubes glued to the bottom and bitched a storm about it being a bearing or bushing,but after I explaned ,no that could only be called at best a sleve becuses it dose not move and nether dose the nails/axle move,so it meets the fine rules as they are . Was great fun,but a few of the other Dad's were all bent out of shape when it was ruled AOK,there not engineers or gearheads so have little to no real understanding of what a bushing or bearing is by def. and actuly really mad they didn't do the same,as more then a few cars had the wheels fall off in the races.