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instead of being placed through a pre-drilled hole on the axle. Usually, inspections are much less dramatic, according to Paul Bates, Sr., of Culpeper, who is on the Culpeper Soap Box Derby’s committee.
“The most common thing I find is a washer in the wrong place or something like that nothing major,” said Bates. “All the cars look the same and have the same parts.” Not only that, the competitors race two at a time on the same wheels, swapping each other’s wheels for a second race that also figures into the final finishing time.
The cars definitely looked the same after last weekend’s inspection, as they were covered up in a white sheet and stored until race day in a location that Gilmore asked not to be identified, an appropriate enough request given that the storage room looked like Hangar 18 after the fabled Roswell UFO crash.
One of those alien bod
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