I took up the challenge and drove down to
SFV to compete against the SFVISBF. The
San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society had
a spin in the first race. The second run
showed what the X5 could do.
Dialog from the movie Rebel Without A Cause.
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild.
Arlo Guthrie - Coming into Los Angeles.
X4 build and race video.
The last of the all wood constructions.
The X4 was raced 4 years then recycled into
the new X5. The X5 features steel-frame and
lever actuated steering. Wheels and tires
are 14" scooter rears and 10" go-cart fronts.
Downhill racing with wacky racers. This
is the event that started all the others.
SFISS was created in 1993 by a group of artists and bike messengers. It was run on every third Sunday starting Mother's day until Halloween.
There are two types of racer, those with air
filled tires(pneumatics) and those with hard
rubber tires.
Slotcar track on cables, retracts to the
ceiling. This is a great space saver! My
system pulls 8 cables back to a traveler.
Hanging the track is the best thing I ever did
to make 1/24 scale model car racing even more
enjoyable.
The indeterministic character of the
submicroscopic world is summarized by
the Heisenberg uncertainty relation:
Although quantum mechanical theory always explains experimental data, some physicists find the underlying framework of uncertainty and the probabilistic aspects unsatisfactory.
Crash at the top of the hill with a compressed air rocket launch (plastic bottle), some good passing with slight contact.
winner. Soapbox derby was never like this. Full contact with 3 wide side by side.
Chris Harvey's hilarious racing video of
old-school, Soapbox racing San Franciscans having fun!
Hard wheelin' soapbox cars built in the
traditional fashion. Bernal Hill Park
is the site of all the urban downhill
racing excitement.
Ceppie and Greg team up for the most
excellent gravity car racing event put on
by the San Fernando Illegal Soap Box Fed.
We drove all night to greet the dawn in
the hills above the greater L.A. basin.
Victory was ours on the 2.15 mile race
course.
X5 deploys firecracker screen. Duct tape
holds a long string of crackers to the
bottom of the car. Very effective for distracting drivers and wowing the crowd.
Chris Harvey's hilarious movie, On Every Third
Sunday.
Classic LeMans style start. Awesome Surf tune.
Crash after crash and more crashes.
Old-school Dorks getting tattered.
On Every Third Sunday, the movie that started a Soapbox racing movement.
