Soap Box derby racing

I never driven or been in a Soap Box derby race, or even sat in a car for that matter.  But, I did lay on top of one with David and Sara in it driving down the driveway hill at St John's United Methodist Church in Dover, NH.  I couldn't have gotten into it if I tried.  I hope I can find the picture the one picture I have, it was great fun and we all laughed and had such as fun time, as we usually did.

Apparently, as the official rules go, when a contestant builds a soap box racer, they can only use that car one year.  If they are going to race again the next year, they must build a completely new car.  My friend and co-worker in the Radiological Controls Training Division, Llewellyn Millette from Rochester, NH gave me this old car that was hanging in his garage a I remember.  I don't have a clue of how it all came to be, over conversations at his house I guess...  how Sara and David would have a blast driving it, I just don't remember that part, but somehow, I ended up with the sleek black racer.  I also have no idea of where it ended up.

What I do remember was the blast we had pushing it up the hill and then riding down at about 200 mph (or so it felt), wind in our face, laughs and smiles on our faces.

Crashed computers.... ugh

I remember a time, about a week ago when I was working on a post, writing about going to the U.S. Grand Prix (my cousin Fritz Ceratt always called it Grand Pricks).  I was looking for a picture of the car Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Tommy and Dick Smothers) drove.  Dick as an aspiring race car driver and happened to be racing at Watkins Glen that weekend in july 1969.

Well, I couldn't find a picture of his car, but I did find a picture of one of the posters advertising the race.  Upon attempting to capture it for inclusion within this blog, my computer was hosed with a backdoor trojan virus and has totally destroyed the operating system on my other laptop.  I think since then I have spent at least 10 to 15 hours just trying to recover my data files.  That has been made difficult because so many of the Microsoft Windows files are wrecked.

So much for that post. Let's hang the son-of-a-bitch bastards that write virus programs just for grins.