The seventh annual All-American Soap Box Derby, a series of races with handmade gravity-powered cars, kicked off on Saturday and by Sunday had drawn families and visitors to watch kids from as far ...

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 ...

Imagine hundreds of young boys flying down a breakneck hill in wooden contraptions of their own design. That scene was the very first Soap Box Derby — and it was held in Dayton in 1933. The race, held ...

This is part of an ongoing series answering "Why is that?" questions about Salem and the Mid-Valley. The question: Why has Soap Box Derby racing been missing from Bush’s Pasture Park? We have some ...

Order your kit and start building your speed wagon, it’s almost soap box derby time. The 2024 Erie Soap Box Derby race is set to take place on June 15 at 10 a.m. on 36th and State streets in downtown ...