Gee Whiz! It’s the Midville Soap Box Derby Finals! What will happen? Who will win? What mysterious company is sponsoring this dramatic race? Check out this 1961 Boys’ Life ad and you will find the answers that you seek! But be sure to follow the rules and build carefully.
Nice scholarship for the winner…
Perhaps. It says "a chance at sharing $15,000 in college scholarships…" so it all depends on how that total was divided among the recipients. As a single award in 1961, that would have been far in excess of the cost of tuition, room and board, books, and all other expenses for an entire four-year program pretty much anywhere.
The text is a bit hard to read, but it looks like first place got $5000. Through fifth place also got scholarships of progressively smaller amounts, but probably still enough to cover 1961 tuition at Ohio State. http://newspaperarchive.com/zanesville-times-reco…
Gee whiz, Dad's got a pipe and a hat and Mom's wearing pearls. I'd like to think that they rode around in a Buick Invicta.
That'd still be a win for GM, but it suggests the Chevrolet Division may have aimed a bit high.
After another couple of years, they shopped for an El Camino.
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Clearly they would have driven a Chrysler product, where you can still drive while wearing a hat!
/channeling K.T. Keller…
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Some of those guys don't look very happy.