914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
7/30/15 7:05 a.m.

Thankfully ABS plastic and not cast iron.

Enyar
Enyar Dork
7/30/15 7:42 a.m.

Well hot damn.

NordicSaab
NordicSaab Reader
7/30/15 8:04 a.m.

This is not where I expected this thread to go... but I am very pleasantly surprised.

Great work and creativity there.

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo Mod Squad
7/30/15 8:07 a.m.

An old bathtub? What could be better to race in a soapbox derby!

Woody
Woody MegaDork
7/30/15 8:38 a.m.

Rusted_Busted_Spit
Rusted_Busted_Spit UberDork
7/30/15 8:58 a.m.

That is seriously cool.

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
7/30/15 9:02 a.m.
EastCoastMojo wrote: An old bathtub? What could be better to race in a soapbox derby!

Oh yahoo! Imagine all the momentum of cast iron blistering down a hill. The old 2X4 skid brake is a goner for sure!

N Sperlo
N Sperlo MegaDork
7/30/15 9:37 a.m.

Oh, hell yea. I'll rock that.

Wally
Wally MegaDork
7/30/15 7:13 p.m.

That's much better then sticking a statue of Mary in it.

novaderrik
novaderrik UltimaDork
7/31/15 2:35 a.m.
914Driver wrote:
EastCoastMojo wrote: An old bathtub? What could be better to race in a soapbox derby!
Oh yahoo! Imagine all the momentum of cast iron blistering down a hill. The old 2X4 skid brake is a goner for sure!

if it was one of the old tubs with feet, they could be left on and be painted up like horns on a bull or something..

Lesley
Lesley PowerDork
7/31/15 12:47 p.m.

Oh my goodness! That is cool!

slefain
slefain UberDork
7/31/15 2:28 p.m.

Back when my college was still cool we used to race these on the campus:

Towards the end most of them were Rotax powered and hitting 70 mph along the main straight.

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