What Every Parent Should Know About Pinewood Derby Cars and More

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Summary: The least useful pinewood derby booklet on the market
Review: Our family has purchased every available pinewood derby booklet on the market. Out of this collection "What Every Parent Should Know About Pinewood Derby Cars and More" is the least valuable booklet. The booklet is confusing, incomplete, and would steer a new car builder in the wrong direction. [....]

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Summary: Hmmmm..... Vaguely Useful
Review: There are about three good ideas in this book (pamphlet). The whole thing is about 20 pages long. A quarter of that is drawings.

For the price, it is an ok buy.

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Summary: I wish I'd known...
Review: This book is an excellent guide for both beginner and advanced pinewood derby enthusiast. Although compact, it offers information consistent with the discoveries I made after years of racing (and winning). Any first time racer will benefit enormously from the information found in this book. Advanced racers will also find some interesting new techniques to try. If you want to win, this book is money well spent. I wish I would have read it before building my first car!

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Summary: A pamphlet.
Review: This booklet is very small indeed, being a mere 11 pages. In it, the author covers a couple of unique, possibly effective techniques for increasing the speed of a Pinewood Derby car. He claims that tests bear out his conclusions, but does not give any indication of what the test results actually were. Overall, this book gives far too little to warrant the purchase.