Greetings, Several for my friends and I have started an outlaw soapbox racing league called the San Fernando Valley Illegal Soapbox Federation. An extreme sport thats extremely stupid for sure, but loads of fun. Please visit the links below to view our video footage. Thanks for your time. Paul de Valera www.sfvisbf.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB2eZ8WD3tM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plw_yNa2OB0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C0sN34Ndxo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3B3HI5Er9k
Die EXTREME SPORTS DIE DIE DIE.... now take your boxes down third street in Laguna and we'll talk.... All joking aside... looks like fun...kind of like playing chicken with kids at the skate park
I've seen these before...they never get less funny.....I love the little sedan with the skull & crossbones on the rear....whats the body made from?.....also the "Dick Dastardly" sound bite on the one race had me pissing my pants....
We usta do that when I was a kid in 1956. We went up to the oil field hills and if you spun out you went over the cliff. Saw a couple of friends go off and we were wearing football helmits. didn't help the arms or legs thow. It was a blast then, I don't know if I have the nerve to do it at 63, but it sure looks like fun.--TV
ola rev, cant wait for the next video,,sure am glad chris is ok from 45 to dead stop ouch,,,,,the body on the skull car is cardboard it is presently out due to hard crash,,,,it belongs to mad dog he is a hamb.er........................mine is the one that looks like a indy car red with white scallops................its free speed..fun
All that's left of the one I built in 1962 in the nose section, the grass catcher from a Qualcast Panther lawn mower.
Thes hills are fast enough for sure, one of them I was clocked doing 55 mph! I have to wear saftey glasses or my eyes tear up. Some of the slower hills the old addage "rubbing's racing" applies. Just trying to get this out there and share the good times we're having for such low dollars. one more video in the works for the end of the race season. Then a couple months off and back to the track! www.sfvisbf.com
that was great ! makes me wish i still lived in the valley..now you have to try it at the top of balboa.i used to ice block at the park there all the time. aahhh what memories.
after my kid meet you guys at flames around a month ago, all he talks about is wanting me to help him build one! looks like lots of fun! so when is the next race? and when is the next chupacabra bike ride?
Dang, that looks like fun! Finaly, racing where fat guys might have an advantage. Got a wide load class?
Check the site: www.sfvisbf.com we'll have a new course or two, the next race starts off the racing season in March 07. I hope that some of this bench racing will translate into more cars on the track! See you then! Paul.
You guys bitching about the earth being flat just need to think harder. You got any parking garages nearby?
That is hilarious. Me and my brothers and my neighbors did that shit when we were kids (1980s). We still talk about how much fun it was. There are some serious-ass hills where I grew up in Connecticut...
Looks like great fun!!!...maybe these guys need to build their cars out of the shopping carts I see sittin' around, when I'm out west.
Very cool - and great low-buck fun! I grew up doing this on the steep two-block long paved street in front of my house. The standard rig was a 2" x 6-or 8- or 10" board for the mainframe, with a 4" x 4" rear "axle" and wagon wheels with axles held on by bent-over nails. Front axle was the same, but with a pivot bolt through the center that fastened to the main board. Steering was done with ropes (and your feet - pushing on the axle. Bodies were anything from a slanted board or piece of plywood to an old cut-in-half pedal car. Brakes? I don't think so (except for digging in your heels). We didn't bother with belts or helmets, and made it evermore dangerous by having a friend pull you as fast as he could pedal on his bike before releasing you to potential death and destruction. Eventually, I had a "car" that was pretty solid, low, and featured pneumatic tires. That f*#ker would really scoot. Waaay to fast for the conditions. Can you say bigtime "road rash"? (-: Oddly enough, my parents - who were very caring - just considered it part of growing up, I guess. Those were far different times.Don't think I'd try it now, but Oh, to be young again.
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