Besides winning the Valley City race for the past two years, she has been in six straight rally championships. This year, she is racing a master s division car, the highest division and the kit most difficult to assemble. She and her dad have been working on the car since November. Valley City doesn t have a master s division race, although organizers are hoping to remedy that soon, so Stephanie has to go on the road to try out her new car. But that s no deterrent to the Eilers racing spirit.
Nothing seems to be.
You can t tell this guy is obsessed, Karen says teasingly of her husband. Daily News watched three boys race homemade cars down a hill and decided to organize a local and national race. The derby quickly became an American tradition, with boys assembling polished or motley cars of anything they could find or imagine. In its glory years, under the sponsorship of Chevrolet, the race had tens of thousands of entrants at the local level. Prizes included thousands of dollars in college scholarships, real Chevrolet cars and trips to Europe.