April , 1998
The next 2 years or so would be the height of this cars road time
for me. I had just recently put the colors on the car. I could no
longer now hide in its unsuspecting plain white paint.
At a large local car show, I had won the cream of the trophies
for that show, The Most Outstanding Muscle Car award
and then, I was featured in this local magazine, but, un be knowing
to me until the magazine was published, that I would find my self
on the cover. This magazine had a publication of about 10,000 to
our local business & hotrodders and now I was the center of
attention at all the car shows after this came out, as everyone
knew who I was.
I had a modest restoration business I called Supercar, Extreme
Glass beading, specializing in aluminum profiling. Some folks like
to call it glass beading. However, it far was far more than that.
I took this process to a science and created works of art out of
other wise discarded intake manifolds and other aluminum and stainless
items. I had a nitch in the market, there was no-one else that could
produce this type of finish, so to take full advantage of the advertising.
I took my Scrambler to every car show and trade display known to
me with in my driving distance. I proudly displayed the car along
with the display for my business. Even though I had always used
this car as an example of my restoration abilities, my newly painted
red-white & blue scrambler had become my company's recognized
icon over night. It was clear that the car was going to attract
a lot of attention in it's ordinal colors.
The publisher of this magazine, was also the advertizing director
for our local race track. So when Credo Productions contacted him
about doing a tv series about women in motor sports, I found myself
right in the middle of stardom, or at least that's how it felt.
The TV series HEAD OVER WHEELS on WTN, aired The following season,
I was featured on 1 of the episodes for my mechanical ability's.
I was very proud of my scrambler, and my ability's, but mostly it
felt great that I had become an inspiration to other women. The
show aired for almost 2 years. |