NASCAR drivers go running for the garages like pansies the moment they see one spot of precipitation hit their windshields. Ten year old kids racing All American Soap Box Derby run rain or shine.
Eyes On The Prize
This photo is what awesome sees when it looks in the mirror, photoshop or not. Update: this is a real photo! Buy a copy here from the photographer/Jalopnik reader John! [Not Stock Photography]
Wanna Go Racing? Just Have Sex!
You read that correctly. If you want to get involved in racing you are going to need to have lots of sex, because you can't enter the All-American Soap Box Derby without a kid.
Three Races In One Day. Could It Be Done?
My kids had a box cart race. I had a NASA endurance race on the same day over 250 miles away. My wife said, "You'll have to choose." I said, "I can do both… maybe."
Malaise Era Artisto-Hoons Go Gravity-Powered In 1975 Artists' Soapbox…
The Illegal Soapbox Derby
Mystery Seat From 20R Sprite Hell Project Lives On In Illegal Soapbox…
The Illegal Soapbox Derby race was to be held in San Francisco over Halloween weekend, and four-
Fishing Reel Company Builds Extreme Gravity Racer
Zebco is not a name you normally associate with automobiles, but the fishing reel company recently threw their in-house designers, engineers and machinists into a soapbox derby contest with spectacular results. Set aside memories of the best lazy summers you ever had in your youth, avoiding chores, floating the river…
LeMons Winners Beaten By Le Mans Team
Before they headed off to the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Valley Hoons: Illegal Soap Box Derby!
Apparently we've had our heads up a yin-yang or two this year, because this is the first we've seen of this artfully executed clip. More than the covering of an illegal soap-box derby event, it's also a pastiche of visual and auditory references worthy of a third-year film student. It's a production of the San…
