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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first Bel Air soap box derby since the 1960s will be racing down Main Street on Sunday afternoon, thanks to the efforts of town officials and the Bel Air Lions Club. The Bel Air Town Derby will ...

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, ...