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I write about women and automotive issues for AskPatty.com,
most recently highlighting an unusual museum in Houston:
Taking a Tour of Texas' ArtCar Museum.
Sadly, the Edmunds.com blog The Driving Woman is now defunct, but I wrote a series
of posts for them starting with the ACDelco Gatornationals drag races in Gainesville, Florida.
Highlights include
personal interviews with NHRA Hall of Famer Shirley Muldowney and Top Fuel (now Funny Car and Pro Mod) driver Melanie Troxel, plus "you-are-there" impressions of the sights and sounds in Nitro Alley.
I've also written about garage organization (Park Your Stuff) and car loyalties, an ode to my 1973 Ford Gran Torino.
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Since 2006, I've joined other authors to
write for the "anything fast with wheels" motorsports blog Fast
Machines.
Look for my work primarily in the NHRA
drag racing section, because I like a sport that has one winner, one loser and no whining.
My on-site coverage
of the annual Spring and Fall Nationals in Texas led to the drag racing story in Texas Highways, listed under the
Publications and Clips tab on this Web site.
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Funny Car driver
Ashley Force at the NHRA Fall Nationals, Ennis, Texas (photo by Sheila Scarborough)
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For the Edmunds.com
"Women and Families" section, I wrote a profile of Funny
Car Rookie of the Year Ashley Force.
"One of the fastest-rising
women in motorsports, the 24-year-old Force....was chosen on November 11, 2007 for the Automobile Club of Southern California's
"Road to the Future" NHRA Rookie of the Year award in her current Funny Car division....Her standard day at the
track includes ESPN interviews and mobbed autograph sessions. 'I think a lot of people don't realize how big a role the fans
and the media play,' Force told us. 'You think you're just a racecar driver, and that's such a small portion of what we do.'"
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For the award-winning
online magazine Automotive Traveler, I wrote a
feature article (and took a lot of the photographs) about NASCAR and North Carolina travel in the Charlotte area and on the
Blue Ridge Parkway.
"The Country Crock Campground, near Turn Three at Lowe's Motor Speedway, has
plenty of examples of why you should listen to your Mama when she says, "Don't judge a stock car by how it's wrapped."
This is today's NASCAR in microcosm; humble pop-up trailers proudly parked next to half-milliondollar land yachts."
You'll need to register (at no cost) to read the magazine, but I hope you enjoy my piece, "Southern
Comfort."
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