It is to bad that the current soap box cars all come from kits not a lot going on. Many years ago, my brothers and I built a car and ran it while living on BHAFB in Indiana. The only item we had to buy was the wheels everything else was up to us. At that time the event was sponsored by the local Chevy garage. We built the car on base at the woodworking hobby shop and need to say we had access to all of the wood working tools and machines as well as the talents of the Airman running the shop. We had a fine looking car that turn out to be too heavy with me riding in. My younger brother weight was low enough with the weight of the car was good to go and he got to race the car. We loaded the car into my Mom's 59 Chevy (my Pop was on alert status and could not leave the base) station wagon and headed off to Peru, IN to race. Well we lost in the first round and that was the end of that. When we were transfer from BHAFB to OAFB (Nebraska) we gave the car back to the Airman at the woodshop.
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