Oh man, I helped build one of these when I was a kid. Mostly I watched scooby-doo until they needed tiny monkey hands to crawl into the shell and hold a rachet in some awkward spot, but there was so much sanding of the damn foam block used to form the shell as well. Come out looking like a loonytunes character when you take the mask off, everything just covered in dust except your eyes and mouth...

Super cool to see it progress beyond garage built racers where 50% were so over-specc'd they removed steering linkages to save weight (the first time the course had a 90° turn at the start it disqualified so many teams and people were PISSED)