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In much of my work I collect women\u2019s car stories. I’ve spent many hours interviewing women who had much to say about their relationship with cars. I\u2019ve talked to women with chick cars, muscle cars, and pickup trucks. I\u2019ve met with women who engage in motorsports, as well as women in their 80s and 90s to reflect on early car experiences. Although the themes that emerged from these various projects made their way into journal articles and books, the particular experiences of each woman are often limited to a quote or two. I thought, therefore, that it might be worthwhile to go back and revisit the interviews and unearth some of the stories that deserve to be told. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first group of women I spoke with were those that own classic muscle cars. The original American muscle car \u2013 a two-door, rear-wheel-drive, midsize vehicle equipped with a large muscular V8 engine and sold at an affordable price \u2013 was produced between 1964 and 1973 to appeal specifically to an affluent young male market. Because this car culture is so intertwined with masculinity and the male driver, I was interested not only in how the women negotiated their way into this masculine fraternity, but more importantly, hoped to uncover exactly what the powerful cars meant to the women who drive them. The overwhelming majority of female muscle car owners were of the baby boomer generation. Some of the women participated in muscle car culture alongside husbands, but others went it alone, often after the passing of a male companion or family member. Here are two of their stories.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In Minnesota for a family wedding, I happened upon a muscle car show outside of Minneapolis. One of the cars that caught my attention was a bright purple [Plum Crazy] 1970 Dodge Challenger. I was especially intrigued by the album set next to the car; it included not only restoration photos but also contained a faded photo from the 1970s of a young blonde woman in a bathing suit posing next to the car. As it turned out, the woman sitting next to the Challenger at the car show was the original owner. As a teenager fresh out of high school working her first job, Jenny Brinker-Wagstrom was driving a 1957 Chevy that kept breaking down. Needing something more dependable for work transportation, she spotted an advertisement that featured a young blonde woman next to a 1970 Challenger. Jenny went to the dealership and ordered a car exactly like that pictured in the photograph, not understanding what exactly she was buying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jenny came from a family of 10 children. Her strict Catholic father accompanied his daughter to the dealership to pick up the car. As she told me, \u201cI heard the car coming from around the building and all I could hear was this loud \u2018jib, jib, jib, jib\u2019 really loud, and I thought, oh my god, my dad\u2019s going to kill me. There\u2019s no way. Here comes my Challenger. A guy brought it around for me, he gets out, hands me the keys and says \u2018man, you\u2019re one lucky young lady.\u2019 And I thought you don\u2019t know my father, you just don\u2019t know my father. And I looked up at my dad, he looked at me, and he looked at [the dealer] and he said, \u2018find another car. There\u2019s no way my daughter\u2019s driving this car.\u2019 And of course the tears welled up in my eyes. And I, you know my father, you can\u2019t talk to him, once he\u2019s made up his mind you know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jenny looked hopelessly at the dealer, who somewhat miraculously, talked her father into acquiescing to his daughter’s wishes. As she recalled, \u201cI didn\u2019t say anything; I just stood there holding my keys. I wouldn\u2019t give my keys up. I was only like what, 20 at the time. And I thought nope, nope, no one\u2019s taking my car. This is my car; I fell in love with her right away you know.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Challenger became Jenny\u2019s daily driver for many years. She drove it to work, for running around with her girlfriends, and was often challenged to race by boys on the street. But the Minnesota winters eventually took a toll on the car; although it was no longer drivable, she could not part with it. As she told me, as one of 10 siblings, she had to share everything. Jenny has kept the now restored Challenger all of these years because, as she exclaimed, \u201cit was the only thing I\u2019ve ever owned that I paid for. And just the fact that I fell in love with her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharyl Sharrow\u2019s 1970 Ford Mustang has a sentimental history. On a trip to Tennessee, her husband and son found the car in a field behind a barn. They trailered it home, and worked on it when they could over the next 15 years. As she told me, \u201cwhen you have children there\u2019s things that come before your toys.\u201d Once the kids were set in college, she and her husband began working on the car together. They took it apart; every screw, and every bolt were removed and put it in bags. As she recalled,  \u201cwe pretty much took everything apart and we had parts stored in the basement, the engine hanging on a block in the garage, and tires underneath my basement steps wrapped in blankets.\u201d But shortly after dismantling the Mustang, Sharyl\u2019s husband became seriously ill and could no longer work on it. However, her husband\u2019s friends from the car club took it upon themselves to finish the project. While her husband was in hospice, about four weeks before he passed, the restored car was placed on the front lawn. As she reminisced, \u201che cried when they pulled it in; he was so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Since her husband\u2019s passing, Sharyl has driven the Mustang to car shows as a tribute to her husband’s memory. As she said to me, \u201cOh it was my husband\u2019s dream car. [Before he passed] he made me promise him I would take it out. So I do it, and I do it grumbling. It can put a smile to my face or it can bring a tear to my eye. You know it\u2019s just, it\u2019s that bittersweet. I would love to have him back in the driver\u2019s seat of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery car has a story\u201d is a popular sentiment among automotive enthusiasts. It speaks of the personal, cultural, and historical meanings automobiles carry to those who owned them. In their encounters with cars, individuals often create narratives that combine memory, feeling, and life experience; they generate stories that \u201cintegrate their past, present, and future [\u2026].\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/a> Traditionally, storytellers in these locations have been male; since the early years of automotive history, men\u2019s car stories have been a popular subject of books, film, and magazines.[2]<\/sup><\/a> In the twenty-first century, men\u2019s automotive narratives are often found in locations such as car TV, podcasts, online blogs and forums, automotive websites, and digital newsletters. In these masculine settings, women\u2019s unique relationship with cars, and the stories attached to them, are often ignored or considered invalid. In her collection of essays by women writers on cars and the road, Elinor Nauen exclaims, \u201cwomen have always driven and owned cars \u2013 and always fought with men who thought we shouldn\u2019t.\u201d[3]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As tourism scholar Lee Jolliffee argues, culture related to cars \u201cincludes not only the cars but also documentation and expression of related histories,\u201d both written and oral.[4]<\/sup><\/a> Because women\u2019s relationship with cars differs from that of men, women\u2019s car stories \u2013 such as those mentioned here – add a new dimension to the common narrative and provide automotive histories that are otherwise unrecorded. As Marilyn Root – in her compilation of women\u2019s car stories – declares, \u201cfor many women the stories of their relationships with their vehicles are not only those of transportation, but of transformation.\u201d[5]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1]<\/sup><\/a> Nicolette Caperello and Kenneth S. Kurani. \u201cHouseholds\u2019 Stories of Their Encounters With a Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle.\u201d Environment and Behavior <\/em>44(4) 2012, 504.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[2]<\/sup><\/a> Examples include Car Club Memories: Personal Stories from Three Dynamic Decades of Cruisin\u2019, Competition, and Cool Cars <\/em>compiled by Fred Thomas; Ambrosio and Luckerman\u2019s Cruisin\u2019 the Original: Woodward Avenue<\/em>; Gone in Sixty Seconds; Vanishing Point;<\/em> Dirty Mary Crazy Larry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[3]<\/sup><\/a> Elinor Nauen, ed. Ladies Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road<\/em> (Boston: Faber and Faber, 1996), xvi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[4]<\/sup><\/a> Lee Jollife. \u201cThe Bricklin: From Automobile to Place Narrative.\u201d Automotive Heritage and Tourism: A Framework for Study<\/em>, Michael V. Conlin and Lee Jolliffe, eds. (London, Routledge, 2017), 41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[5]<\/sup><\/a> Marilyn Root. Women at the Wheel 42 Stories of Freedom, Fanbelts, and the Lure of the Open Road<\/em> (Naperville IL: Sourcebooks, Inc.), 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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