Children in Pittsfield parks are getting ready for the Westside Legends Soap Box Derby with the help of some local businesses. Blue Q is one of the leads. and Interprint have staged a fleet of soap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 26, 1939, 15-year-old Lewis Spessard sat inside his soap box derby car beside the YMCA. building at 149 N. Potomac Street.

Museum catalog item 318011.1 was built and raced in the finals at Akron in 1961 by Robert Pusateri. It was donated to the Smithsonian by his father. The official catalog description for item 318011.1 ...

Hundreds of young racers, some from around the world, have begun to arrive at Derby Downs for the 86th annual FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby. The derby involves racers ranging in age from 7 ...

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pennsylvania -- Every year on Independence Day, the streets of Conshohocken are rip-roaring with kids rolling in soap box cars. "My brother and my cousins have been doing this, so I've ...

SEVEN. THE OMAHA SOAPBOX DERBY CHAMPIONSHIP IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF SEVEN AND 18 COMPETING FOR A CHANCE TO GO TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP LATER THIS YEAR IN OHIO. ALL OF THE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The quiet of Folsom’s Historic District — a quaint downtown area full of galleries, restaurants and shops — was replaced Sunday ...

Soap Box Derby fans with specials needs are now able to step into the driver's seat with two specially made racers. Tracey Glenn, chairman of the Cape Girardeau Soap Box Derby, said past winners of ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — When the Kingston Artists Soap Box Derby returns in 2026, it will be under a new name due to potential trademark issues with the name “soap box.” The organizers announced that the ...

Lewis Spessard, a 15-year-old from Hagerstown, won the local Soap Box Derby in 1939 and competed in the national championship in Akron, Ohio. Spessard's winning car was donated to the Washington ...

This past June, racers, ages 8 to 17, took part in the 70th running of the Greater Washington Soap Box Derby. Joe McCary, www.dcsoapboxderby.org Ava Pell, 12, of Bristow, Virginia, climbs into her ...