this conversation. you have of dunbar's life and yet it only begins. scratch the surface. so take those other questions to the book and i invite you to maybe sit at that table so anyone who wants a copy signed can go over there and get a copy signed after. we thank both our guests. thank you. one. who. read.

go. and every summer washington dc. was doing their own ration card and into them and the local soap box derby i entered last year but i didn't win so i decided build a new car and enter again. year my name is carter junior but my friends call me see. i came in the lumber yard. i the fine kind of wood i needed for my floorboard. i wanted it not too heavy.

heavy to carry and car. it couldn't be a real expensive type of wood because i only had $20 to spend on the whole car. he suggested a piece of pine pine. he showed me first piece of wood grain is a little rough. i say. i turn it down. i might get a better piece piece. but he did show me a better piece. wood. so got that piece from my board.

one man named gregory wilson and the he didn't in last would he earned it this year. he's always haggling me like most boys. hello my mother i don't like when she calls me to do something and i've already started something else. she called me for quality so i had to go. oh, i, i don't sing all that well, mr. shaw. i guess he thinks i sing well, not stand choir. sometimes i get more required rehearsal. he sings songs and you sing them over and over again. and every now and then i sneak look at a the beams in church

and they sort of remind me of puts my race because they come around the top and then come straight the side and make sure mr. shaw always want he sees all. he gets real mad when we don't sing. they were supposed to be singing. he raises voice. he yells, frankly, i don't like it. i like the choir household. i had trouble with the steering mechanism. i couldn't figure out which way one wire around the steering share. so the car would turn the same way i turn the wheel. you have to see there's a child in there. i'm getting. well he's and he works with howard university. he used that method. i thought about working as humans when i grew up. it seemed strange to me. you can take two things and put them together and come out with

something completely. from what you originally had. such is a common. so you put sodium, which can be a very dangerous chemical and chlorine, which is a poisonous. and you put those two together and you come out with the table. so i like kind of work when i go into the service, i plan become a paratrooper. i've always wondered, i feel this falling through space, actually never even been in nepal because my height breaks and had be made a certain way when i in i have their rooms yet my legs. turn on inspection and drawn closes.

i was excited about car you know i designed the car and it you so feel pride that you before when i went up for inspection i had trouble racing the wrong inspectors checked car and they sent me back and i had a correction on it. the inspection was held at a high school, so it caused a pretty good designed and accommodation would be pretty stiff. inspectors seem like use your room good going over old cars in pairs they had to be taken and worked on.

i wondered how tough they would be on me. i didn't know for sure if i was going to pass. well, go. and had steering mechanism. i had trouble with it before the steering the soon to be a little bit loose. not that go you want to test out my brakes i messed on the brakes.

or i saw passed due for so i said good in the track see how it was laid out. it was hot. it's like it was. and i raced you before trying seem long as you stand quiet and my be were people cheering yelling cars would be at the top of the hill if i won the national. i had 70 $500 scholarship in college. i want to get out would be the one went. to only two more boys in the race they come from all over

washington nearby mel and virginia. and the suburbs there. derby officials keep the cars at coolidge high school gymnasium. so the cars can't be ordered. and then they do leave all the cars in track when take your car off, you worried about them being careful with your car? you you don't want them there is steering system of the brakes. the other boys had some pretty good races. they were quite good pretty fast. i had to pop up my car so the wheels wouldn't get flat. i got real tense when they started lining because i wasn't in first race greg was in first attorney general kennedy started race.

the racing system and he and the winner from each of three cars comes back races again one oh right. okay great. well all. i don't know about the other guys but when i get on the ramp from the long and nervous because i'm too busy on other things like getting ready to steal my car or getting in a good position. so i get to the car and you go and inhale. 35 or 40 miles and now the wind in your face and people cheering

and you stay down low in the car stage, gated you get the maximum speed is an exciting feeling as you get to the bottom of the my car outweighed the car. my right and so he is passed me in the race i finished in third place. the time was 30 seconds the last race or 31 or 32 seconds and did better this year thought i was the guy raced against you the one that came in second at the new washington dc game tv champion and. i wish that he had he had better kong and he won. so i congratulated all of you have you about losing the plans and plans for next year change

in practice so my driving more i'll and again next year maybe i'll win.