Rain Forest Pet Spectrum for the styrofoam (again!)
Melissa for printing the iron-ons for our team’s t-shirts
Finally, wing-pumps to everyone on team You’re not sushi – you’re chicken! THIS. WAS. AWESOME. First the sushi, then the chicken. We can’t possibly out-do this, right? Right??
Watch this short video of the Top 5 crashes at the Red Bull Soapbox Vancouver event. Again, major props to Elizabeth & Jenny – if you gotta crash, do it in style!
Moments after the Great Chicken Crash of 2008, drivers Elizabeth & Jenny could be heard saying, “Thank goodness for seatbelts!”
Yes, we installed seatbelts in our soapbox. They weren’t mandatory, but if you’re going to be building a soapbox cart and it’s feasible, install them.
Ours were pretty simple. Just a carabiner attached to rope that was tied in a knot on the underside of the cart, with light foam padding around the rope (to prevent rope burn on the stomach).
Depending on your soapbox design, you could also consider a firewall. Think about installing a proper roll bar, which we sacrificed in our design due to weight restriction considerations.
The day before the soapbox derby, we loaded the chicken onto an F150 to get it to Kitsilano.
Here we are driving down Lougheed Highway with a giant chicken in the back. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Drive slowly, Leonard! The drumsticks are jiggling!
Deviled Egg, Knife, Fork & Chicken chill before the gates open to the public.
The chicken soapbox tries to relax before the big race (and subsequent crash).
What would a big event be without Hot Cops! (It’s an Arrested Development joke – just watch the DVDs already!) Our team traded stickers with this policeofficer.
This photo of Jensen Ackles is here to make me happy. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to meet him. He was there to participate in a celebrity charity race with Jared Padalecki, both from the tv show Supernatural.
So the *ahem* back-end of the chicken has been immortalized in this Red Bull video clip “Twas the night before soapbox”. It’s a video of set-up day. Watch for CHKN SASS! The video clip can also be viewed and downloaded from the Red Bull Soapbox site.
See a picture of the chkn sass in the September 8, 2008 edition of the Sing Tao. According to my Dad, the caption says something like “Home-made vehicles compete in a race down a slope”. Probably sounds more poetic in Chinese.
Our chicken was so nice we made the Sing Tao twice! The September 14, 2008 “Community Images” section has a sweet pic of our chicken soapbox. According to my Dad, the caption says something like “Soapboxes show off wild, crazy & imaginative ideas.” The red inner caption says “Tremendous creativity”. We’ll take that
This article from August 30, 2008 in the Burnaby Now mentions our team.
