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Y33TREKker
05/24/2011, 10:39 PM
As kids, there were only so many outlets available to satiate our automotive obsession. While we always had grand visions of things like building the ultimate model A/C Cobra or hewing the sleekest Pinewood Derby racer that the sport had ever seen, our projects typically turned out looking more like Revell nightmares and shop class castoffs. We simply lacked the granular motor skills to turn our hopes and dreams into plastic and pine realities. We're guessing that Sam Francis never had that problem....

Full story and more pics here: Audi r18 - coolest pinewood derby car (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/20/audi-r18-coolest-pinewood-derby-car/)

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/05/pinewood-derby-audi-r18.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/05/lead2-pinewood-derby-audi-r18.jpg http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/05/lead3-pinewood-derby-audi-r18.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2011/05/lead6-pinewood-derby-audi-r18.jpg

Pretty impressive considering mine used to look like they were straight out of The Flintstones.

LittleBeast
05/24/2011, 11:18 PM
That looks pretty sweet. That brings back some memories of the Royal Ambassadors (R.A.'s) I was a part of growing up.