Vintage trophy girl photos

Looks like a winner to me!!!

 

The Good Ole days for sure...

 

No, but very humbled.......

 

When I saw your name I was reminded of the line in Oh Brother Where Art Thou- *we thought you was a toad*. Glad you're back.

 

Surfs up

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& Original Posters
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https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/arti...cy-of-basketballs-most-successful-female-team
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Cejay Stadium racing promoter Carl Johnson presenting Ileen Goodman with an award after she won the 1949 championship for female racing drivers

http://kansasracinghistory.com/Forrest/Women.htm
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http://www.powerperformancenews.com...dy-and-the-unlikeliest-of-trans-am-race-cars/

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Excerpt from Debby Porter site do visit it is very interesting...

Year 2002

It is nothing short of a miracle that the next series of events even happened.

In the 1950’s, my father, Chuck Porter, had a famous race car which he called his “300 SLS”. This car went through a lot of engines and different drivers, and won a lot of races. My father raced it from 1956 to 1959, then sold it.

Years went by, my father raised my sister Cathy and I, and had his own body shop in Whittier where he still did custom work for clients, but a lot of his time went toward finding and restoring his beloved antique 3/4 midgets.

My father passed away in 1982 while driving in an Old Timer’s race at Indian Dunes. He didn’t suffer, and it’s the way he would have wanted to go. We sold his antique race cars and trucks to collectors to insure that the public would be able to continue to enjoy them. I never knew what had happened to the old Mercedes, only that one time dad had tried to buy it back, but it was too much money.

Twenty years went by. I had always driven Porsches, but I finally bought a Mercedes Benz in 1988. Upon asking around for a mechanic, everyone recommended Rene at Van Nuys Sportscar. Rene owns several Mercedes, including a Gullwing. I told him that my dad once had a race car that had been a Gullwing. One day I came in, and Rene showed me an article in the Gullwing Newsletter which was about my Dad’s car. I noticed that Lyn Yeakel, an old friend of my dad’s, was a newsletter staffer. I contacted him, and he sent me some additional pictures and information about my dad’s race car which I didn’t have.


Some months ago, Rene mentioned to me that he knew of someone who actually had the race car, named Scott Grunfor, and gave me his number. This was a shock to me, and very emotional, as I had no idea that the car was still in existence after all this time.

I contacted Scott, who had indeed just sold the car to a collector in Germany who would probably be contacting me to know more about the car. I wondered what it looked like by now. What condition was it in? I didn’t hear anything more about the car for awhile, but I was happy just to know that a part of my father’s legacy was still around.

In July of this year, just prior to the Historic Races in Laguna Seca, Scott contacted me to tell me that the owner of the Mercedes would most likely be bringing the car here to race it in Monterey. I begged him to please let me know, as my sister and I would come to Monterey from Los Angeles to see it.

As the race day grew closer, Scott gave me the number of Hans Kleissl, who had found the car. Hans loved the car and it’s history, and told Klaus Lehr about it. Klaus agreed he would like to own it, and the restoration began. I saw a picture of it how Hans found it. Man, was it ugly!

As the race weekend approached, my sister and I apprehensively boarded separate planes to Monterey; her’s in Ontario, CA, mine in Burbank. We met at the San Jose airport where I had rented a car. Driving to the race track we got stuck in traffic and were worried we would miss the race. We made it in time. Hans met us at the giant GoodYear sign in the middle of the paddock and we walked together to where the race car was parked.

There it was. Just as I remembered it 44 years ago. Something that my father designed, hand-crafted, perfected; and the car is timeless. Hans had perfectly restored it. He felt something special about the car. I wonder if he knows how special it is to me? Do you believe in fate? They actually love the car as much as I do (well, almost!) Klaus brought the car here to California, all the way from Germany for it’s first race because this is where it was famous. Thank God, or I wouldn’t have had the priviledge of seeing it and actually sitting in it!

The resurfacing of the Mercedes is an answer to one of my prayers. What if I had chosen another mechanic? Or bought another Porsche?

Thank you, and love you: Hans, Klaus & Ralf

Debby Porter

http://www.debbyporter.com/chuck-porter/porter-frames.html

Credit to Debby Porter


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http://www.mercedes300sls-porter.de/bilder/

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A Fast lady
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The Drool




http://blog.modernmechanix.com/worlds-fastest-woman-driver/

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Pyramid Power



Posted by @Marty Strode
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...picture-thread.228509/page-1353#post-10874894
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http://eastcoastdragtimeshalloffame...-how-it-came-to-begin-the-drag-racing-season/
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A bikini in those days? hard to beat it........

 

She was quite the gal that's for sure. She definitely had some connections to some high profile people in the custom world. I just noticed her Drool dropped a bumperrete.

 

great stuff Stogy!

 

is she still living, and where is the car?

 

Very good questions Verde. That I am unsure of. Since life is so precious and the Hotrod as they call it is so cool and of revered liniage I hope yes and yes. Perhaps someone will chime in. I will do some more snooping...

 

Well, it is someone's Grandmother by now.

 

No question...very little press on this...I am finding...It has been posted a few times on the site so a search may yield more info.

 

NO. Problem Looking. I am married to a Grandmother

 

Me too!

 

I wonder how long it was before they realized she was stealing the wrench.

 

Mrs. Winton is mentioned in a story (see link below) in this article with I believe the same car. The car still survives through some incredible odds and Mrs. Winton no mention as to her whereabouts. But a real cool story about relevant Hotrod/Custom stuff and if she is still not with us she certainly lived a life we can relate to.

click on link below and the story is in 4 pages at bottom of intro...click and enjoy a cool bit of history...

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/15/sia-flashback-rescued-in-tangiers/

Another pic of Mrs. Winton
posted by @Kiwi Kev some time ago





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Actresses Giving Honors





http://www.nwitimes.com/news/histor...ion_8c77f1f4-d306-5fdf-a716-5e226b27538f.html

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Actresses Giving Honors ll






http://www.nwitimes.com/news/histor...ion_8c77f1f4-d306-5fdf-a716-5e226b27538f.html

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