"...winning"
Posted on 07/04/2013 2:51:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Like countless rock ’n’ roll bands, the first Apple computer and budding entrepreneur Neal Bailey’s carbon fiber XTR sports car, some of the best things are built in garages.
More than 30 four-wheeled examples of that homegrown American ingenuity, ranging from sleek fiberglass torpedoes to more elemental wooden models, rolled out Thursday to compete in the 62nd Conshohocken AMBUCS Soap Box Derby. --SNIP-- While soap box derbies may seem like something from a bygone innocent age — like Aunt Bea’s prize-winning boysenberry pie and Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights — they’re “a good family day,” Jeff Christman said
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...too much celebrating America....will be banned next year.
"...winning"
And too much competing. There were 33 entrants, but only one winner. The town is devastated with all the failure. Can't we all just get along?
Wow! Very nice.
Bet you had a Kodak Brownie in the cockpit. :^)
We have a Soap Box Derby here where I live. It’s a neighborhood tradition and a fun place to watch the kids have fun and enjoy some toasted ravioli and beer :)
I raced those. The winners always seemed to have fathers who were aeronautical engineers or something. I remember watching one father scold his son for touching his car. A bunch of sickening cheater fathers with loser kids.
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