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Portland has an extinct volcano sitting right in the middle of the city, so naturally, at some point a group of grown men decided the appropriate thing to do with it was build homemade cars and race them down the side.
Honestly, it would almost be stranger if this hadn’t happened in Portland.
This Saturday, August 15, the Portland Adult Soapbox Derby returns to Mt. Tabor Park for its 27th anniversary, bringing 42 teams and some of the strangest gravity-powered vehicles you are likely to see anywhere in Oregon. The race runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., admission is completely free, and organizers say somewhere between
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