I wanted to open this thread in honor of all the Car Girls in our lives, they are a rare and desirable breed! I know there are a few on the site, Cudachick for one. This is a brief story of my car girl. I met Ellen when she was 8 years old or so. I was dating her mother, and her mother and I got married about a year later. I got her involved in Jr. Dragsters which she loved. One of her most prized possessions are her time slips!
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Later on when she was in Middle School, she told me that she wanted a Hudson Hornet (probably from the movie "Cars"), so we started looking. After a few months, we found one in a barn (no, it was really in a barn!). We drug it home and started working on it, and I told her that if she graduated high school, did not get in trouble with the police or get pregnant, the car would be hers upon graduating high school. This restoration process took almost 7 years.
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View attachment 347843She actually did do work on the car over the years.
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This is Ellen (in red) and a friend before going to a high school homecoming (one of her girlie moments). I dropped them off in my 1967 GTX clone.
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This is her 1956 Hudson Hornet mostly finished.
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This is her 2001 Subaru WRX/STI (she like the newer cars too).
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And this is Ellen in her National Guard BDU's heading out for a drill weekend.
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Her mother and I got divorced when she was about 15. She ended up staying with me, and although we had our moments she did make it through high school, we still keep in touch. I live in Arizona now and she still lives in Oregon where her birth parents are. She has visited a couple of times and plans to be back later this year. This is the Patriot Car Girl (20 years old now) that I had the privilege to help raise!
