Sometimes I question my sanity in leading Cub Scouts when I've already got so much going on. What I like about it, though, is that it's social and educational and, basically, I just consider it "fun school".

This month's theme is Cub Scout Car Show. Naturally, the boys are working on their Pinewood Derby cars. Tonite we visited  a local man that builds Nascar racecars. I knew he worked with race cars but was really surprsised at the amount of work they had going on. This is all in a town with a population of less than 1000!

When we visited he had four cars in progress. Each sells for about $100,000 (Chuck is quick to say he can't afford one for himself!) with the engine making up about half of the cost. Five men work in the shop with one traveling over 2 hrs. from Yakima every day. Each car requires approximately 900 man hours to produce.

Anyway, it was fun to see and I got some neat pics to share.

Skylar & Brayden

Chuck answering questions

The cars. All were red, my favorite color.

The front seat. The gas tank is immediately behind - where the back seat would be. Kind of worrisome. The cars all have automatic fire extinguishers. He said they take them off when they're working on the cars so they don't go off when a torch or something gets too close. Yes, it's happened.

Pretty engine. Did you know I once made fiberglass car bodies? I didn't like it. But I did it. lol

Sky checking out the interior.

Some of the boys.