Handcar Regatta

The plucky fellows known as Uff-Das, who last year built the windy Welded Sykellen, are setting sail again this season upon their modified chassis.

This year their craft is called the Wonkatania and is being modeled after the famed boat in the motion picture, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

As Mr. Wonka claims, “Invention, my dear friends, is ninety-three percent perspiration, six percent electricity, four percent evaporation, and two percent butterscotch ripple.”

I only hope the boys can survive the fabled Curse of the Oompa-Loompas which has found many a Halloween costumer and stage production actor to suffer peculiar mishaps and curious bodily discharges usually involving profuse cacao beans as well as dreadful visitations from “Whangdoodles,” “Hornswogglers,” “Snozzwangers,” and “Vermicious Knids.” Good luck, chaps!

Analogous reports:

1. Wonkatania: New Shots in the Engineers’ Arcade
2. New Regatta Railcar Racers Rundown & Photographs
3. 2009 Handcar Regatta Race Results
4. Krank-Boom-Clank Rolls the Maker Faire 2009