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 ...

Nearly two dozen Cub Scouts put on their racing gear for the annual Soap Box ... cars with help from their parents or guardians. Langley said the scouts practice skills like engineering and ...

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 ...