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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

According to the official flyer, the Mid Missouri Soap Box Derby started at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. But derby veterans and organizers know the first leg of the race really starts closer to 5 a.m., around ...

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Pretty soon soap box cars will be racing down a hill in Pottstown. The Pottstown Soap Box Race is a more than 20-year-old tradition. 3-divisions of cars will bomb down Wilson Street, ...