How Soap Box Racing Became a National Craze 

that crash in the beginning where they went into the crowd had to break some legs i mean wow

so sad to see how this tradition died out my dad used to tell me about growing up as a kid and building soap box cars with his friends and family and racing each other and it always sounded so amazing.

When I was 7 I built one with my grandpa out of 50's baby carriage wheels, an old apple crate and some wood. my mom made a seat out of straw and glitter vinyl and we spray painted a red lighting bolt on it, and named it Red Lighting. Sucks I'm too big for it now, so it's sitting in my grandparent's house

You can see why the soap box car was a favorite theme of the Little Rascals / Our Gang.

The real "SKRRRRRRRRT!"

$2000 college scholarship hahahahahaha. That woudn't pay for a parking pass at today's colleges.

I was really surprised at the beginning to see that a black boy was allowed to participate in the race. And he was almost winning too ☺

Love these videos...amazing how different things are today!

That crash tho. Broken legs anyone?

0:21 the birth of mustangs

You never explained why it's called the Soap Box Derby. None of those cars look like soap boxes

How come so many of the men are wearing collared shirts and ties on what is probably a Saturday?

Good days .. when u was poor but u got out and made something out of nothing

Can't believe this was an actual nationwide craze

Narrowly avoiding a crash... as the two carts pile into the crowd of bystanders

But the video doesn’t even explain how it became a national craze 🤷🏻‍♂️

Hey! To anyone that takes the time to read this, please! If this stuff interests you and you have or know kids between 7-20. Please look into getting them racing. This sport is slowly dying and I think it’s because nobody really knows it’s still going on today! This July will be the 85th Annual Race in Akron! Come out and watch! If you want to know more, just comment here and I’ll help you the best I can.

This is brilliant

"Herbert wins a $2000 college scholarship" thanks to the federal reserve and other private banks, nowadays you can barely buy the books for that money.

And now it’s a worldwide craze sponsored by redbull

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Was Samantha & Darren Stephens there? Careful!

Now its the national cell phone derby.

I don't know why but I expect sooooooo much more from the Smithsonian 😅

Good clean fun.

Soap box

Title of the video is just a lie, then. ok