Powered By Women Build

For those of you who look forward to SEMA every year, here’s another reason! The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) and SEMA Businesswomen’s Network (SBN) is teaming up with Ford for the first ever SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women.

The entire build will be carried out by women SBN members, including me!! The project is designed to shine light on women working in the automotive aftermarket and encourage more women to pursue careers in the industry…just up my alley!

The three design concepts, also all created by women, are already up for voting. You’ve got until June 3rd to vote for your favorite design. From there the build will progress up to the SEMA show where the vehicle will be on display and auctioned off to benefit the SEMA Memorial Scholarship Fund.

Go vote now at http://www.hotrod.com/all-female-mustang-build-ford-sweepstakes/. To learn more about SEMA Mustang Build Powered by Women, visit http://www.sema.org/sema-mustang-build.

What It’s All About

For those of you who don’t subscribe to my car club’s blog, I had to share this. The rest of the Gasoline Girls and I were nearly all in tears last Saturday during our meeting as a big surprise rolled into the garage. You’re just going to have to read it for the full story!

Stude Rules the Road Once Again!

It’s been pretty dusty around GreaseGirl lately…I apologize for that. Life has been going at warp speed lately – with a new job (yay!), just engaged (double yay!), and pending move (meh) – I’ve been just a little busy. But I fully intend to continue sharing my adventures via GreaseGirl – many will be coming in the near future!

Without further ado, I couldn’t wait to share with you that Studie has been freed from her long imprisonment! She’s been on my driveway due to fuel issues since November. It wasn’t too much money or time to fix the issue – but I just didn’t have either for awhile. After a couple of Saturday-afternoon wrench sessions, the tank was dropped, professionally cleaned, and put back in along with a new fuel pump. The new hard lines to the front are still in the works – but the important thing is she’s back!

I’ll be doing the full write-up very soon – so look forward to a report of my experience soon of dropping a tank for the first time, finding a new favorite tool, discovering a fantastic way to quiet a fuel pump, and lots of other adventures.

Happy Trails,

Grease Girl

P.S. You’ll be glad to know I was snagged by a car-loving Fella! For our first date, I was wearing my overalls and we met at his shop. Many a days have been spent together with our cars…I can’t wait to continue my adventures with a partner-in-crime as fantastic as him!

Picture of the Week

Inspiration @ NHRA Museum

During the Grand National Roadster Show this past weekend, I made my way over to the permanent NHRA Museum just off the Pomona fairgrounds. They continually have rotating exhibits featuring all sorts of  hot rod history. Just opening was the Moon: Six Decades of a Hot Rodding Eye-con exhibit. I thoroughly enjoyed looking at and learning about some great hot rod history that lies behind my Studebaker’s beloved “Moon disc” hubcaps.

I chose this particular picture to share with you because they way it’s meaning affected me. I was nearly brought to tears upon reading the tender remarks written above. The picture isn’t acutally of Dean “Moon” who began the Mooneyes company, but of Fred Larsen, who worked there and was a major innovator of Moon’s racing equipment.

“Fred Larsen may have been the ultimate hot rodder. He used good old fashioned ingenuity and his skills as a machinist to build incredibly fast hot rods purely for the fun and satisfaction of it. In Fred’s two-car garage he and his long-time partner Don Cummins built the streamliner that has been called the most beautiful homebuilt race car ever constructed. He was instrumental in building the first Cobra and was a faithful Moon employee doing machine work, research and development, and engine building from his retirement from the Navy in 1961 until his passing in 2003.”

May those in our automotive community continue to aspire to the same greatness. Thank you Fred. 

If you want to check out the Mooneyes exhibit for yourself, it will be at the NHRA Museum for a limited time – visit their website for more info!

Stude’s Famous!

…well kinda.

She’s been featured in magazines before – but never a book! That’s right, my 1955 Studebaker is one of the featured cars in a new book, Rat Rods: Rodding’s Imperfect Stepchildren by Scotty Gosson. You may be wondering about Stude’s label as a Rat Rod. I know everyone has their own thoughts about that term – there I things I both like and don’t about it. But in the end - to me, a rat rod is nothing more than a creative rod that’s more about function than form. Most importantly it’s supposed to be fun and go fast. I would say that’s a little bit like my Studie!

The book will be selling on Amazon – to be released February 15th…get your’s in time for Valentine’s Day(it’s 10% off if you order early.) Click here for the Amazon page.