Soap Box Derby tradition comes to life

DOWNHILL RACER- Above, Oak Hills Elementary School third-grade student Zachary Gordon, 9, takes a trial run in his Sioux team racer before the Triunfo YMCA Soap Box Derby begins in the State Farm parking lot in Westlake Village last Sunday. Left, Lupin Hill Elementary School fourth-grader Henry Weddle, 9, is led off the racetrack by his father, Tony, after a run in the Iroquois team's "missle racer." Westlake Village's inaugural soap box race featured thirdthrough sixth-grade children driving homemade vehicles, following the age-old American tradition of "boy-built cars" and apple pie.