MANSFIELD - There's all sorts of tricks to getting a soap box car to go faster, even if every car must conform to strict plans. Every car that will race down the hill in the North Central Ohio ...

This particular racer ran in the 1961 All-American Soap Box Derby in Akron ... was about to race another car in Akron, but Robert was already deep into plans for 1961, the new "soapbox year." ...

in a soap box car built by his father, Loris, a newspaper editor in Kent, Ohio. “Back then, I would have to get on my bicycle and find a piece of wood myself,” Troyer says. “We built ...