Summer break ended on a speedy note for young racers who participated in the 17th annual Soap Box Derby on 17th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues in South Slope on Aug. 24. The racing action, ...
They had the need for speed. More than 45 kids took to the streets of South Slope in handcrafted vehicles for some old-fashioned road racing during the neighborhood’s annual Soap Box Derby on Saturday ...
Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse Emmalynn Esmail, 11, of Howland, and Parker Lame, 14, of Canfield, check out the 2022 Portage Masters winning car that Morgan Brammer, 15, of Poland, drove. Showing how ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Gravity and creativity come together for an afternoon of downhill fun when the Kingston Artists Soap Box Derby returns on Sunday, Aug. 18. Like years past, the creations, some of ...
A hometown hero was celebrated, then immediately fell from grace, in the summer of 1973. That August, 14-year-old Jimmy Gronen won the 36th annual All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio. His ...
Drivers from the 1985 Jamestown Area Soap Box Derby prepare to head down the hill on Baker Street at Bergman Park. P-J file photo EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article appeared in The Post-Journal ...
Ten year old Avery Hebert drives the Bel Air Lions Club car in one of the races in the soap box style derby on Main Street in Bel Air this afternoon. Cameron Wallace, left, driving the Crabby Axe car, ...
Submitted photo... Parker Lame, 13, of Canfield, shows off his race car and trophy after winning the world title in the Super Stock division at the 85th FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby in ...
The design and engineering of today’s soap box derby cars have come a long way from the original crate-crafted, kid-created alley races of yesteryear. “The image of soap box cars depicted in movies ...
COLUMBIA - Families from all over Missouri participated in the Mid-Missouri Soap Box Derby Sunday. The race shut down streets in downtown Columbia from Seventh Street and Broadway down to Providence ...
Billy Evans was 10 years old when he captured the first Jamestown Area Soap Box Derby in 1985. P-J file photo EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article ran in The Post-Journal on May 24, 2009 to ...