Some couches can recline. Others sport a built-in refrigerator, cup holders, and a little cubby for the TV remote. Georgia Tech’s Wreck Racing, regular entrants in our $2000 Challenge, built a piece of living room furniture that can go nearly 20 mph.
Photography Credit: Tony Neste
Pre-Origin:
“Where exactly the couch came from is a bit of a debate,” explains the team’s Rebekah L. Travis. “We reached out to alums on Facebook to see if anyone knew. The current responses are that it was bought off of Craigslist after the racing teams were relocated from the ‘Tin Building’ on Georgia Tech’s campus to the current location on 14th Street, or that it was donated to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers or to Parking Transportation Services about 10 years ago. All we truly know is that its story did not begin with Wreck Racing.”
No matter how the team got its now-iconic couch, that tan piece of furniture has been with them for years,…
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