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In Portland, this soap box derby combines downhill speed with extreme pageantry
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Deena Prichep
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The Portland Adult Soap Box Derby is a long-standing community event that emphasizes creativity and pageantry over pure speed. Participants build unique, gravity-powered vehicles to race down a hill in Mt. Tabor Park.
Gravity is an inescapable force. It's why Earth has its atmosphere and orbits the sun. It can bring us to our knees. And it makes the race known as the soap box derby possible. This gravity-powered American tradition is usually a speed race for kids. But not in Portland, Oregon – home of the Portland Adult Soap Box Derby , which just celebrated its 27th annual run.
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