Girls and Cars - Photos for Bullwinkle and the rest

The Group B regulations fostered some of the fastest, most powerful, and most sophisticated rally cars ever built and is commonly referred to as the golden era of rallying.[1]

She was not impressed by the handling of the Fiat 131 Abarth, stating it was "like a big truck, not a car" and "terrible to drive".[3]

Michèle Mouton (born 23 June 1951) is a French former rally driver. Competing in the World Rally Championship for the Audi factory team, she took four victories and finished runner-up in the drivers' world championship in 1982. She is still the last woman to compete in top-level rallying.
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Mouton states that in her mind she did not try to beat her male rivals, but to be at their level.[3] She noted that in rallying the time is the most important thing.[71] David Evans of Autosport described her as "motorsport's most successful ever female driver."[139] Rally journalist and historian Graham Robson credits Mouton, along with Pat Moss, as "the driver by whom all other females measure their skills and achievements."[143] Mouton and Moss were of different eras and did not compete directly against each other, although they both appeared at the 1973 Monte Carlo Rally where Mouton co-drove.[144] In 1985, they swapped cars in a private test session with Moss driving the Quattro and Mouton an Austin-Healey 3000.[144] Stirling Moss regarded Mouton as "one of the best",[145] and Niki Lauda described her as a "superwoman".[146]

In 2011, Mouton was made knight of the Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur) by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.[147]

she won the two-litre prototype category of the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans.[9] Recalling the race in 2008, Mouton said: "It started to rain I remember, and I started to pass everybody. I was running on slicks. In the pits they were saying 'Michele you must stop', but I did not want to because I was passing everyone."[10]

With a few exceptions, the occupations that are growing in the U.S. are predominantly filled by women, while jobs that are disappearing are mostly done by men.

One of my favorites from the 80's was the LeCar.... but those clever French stuck a Turbo 4 midships and named it the R5 Turbo... those are street legal.

Carrera's performance as Fatima Blush earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress,[24] which she lost to Cher for her role in Silkwood.

Bond distracts her with promises, then uses his Q-branch-issue fountain pen to shoot Blush with an explosive dart.

Her first name, Famke, means "girl" in West Frisian, the native language of the Dutch province Friesland.[4]

You really coil my rope, Roy. Now ... mix me a Campari and Seven, plenty of ice, if you please.

Little Feat
Rock And Roll Doctor
Lyrics
Lowell George, Fred Martin


There was a woman in Georgia didn't feel just right

She had fever all day and chills at night

Now things got worse, yes a serious bind

At times like this it takes a man with such style I cannot often find

A doctor of the heart and a doctor of mind

If you like country with a boogie beat he's the man to meet

If you like the sound of shufflin' feet he can't be beat

If you wanna feel real nice, just ask the Rock and Roll doctor's advice

It's just a country town but patients come

From Mobile to Moline from miles around

From Nacodoches to New Orleans

In beat-up old cars or in limousines

To meet the doctor of soul, he's got his very own thing

Two degrees in be-bop, a phd in swing

He's the master of rhythm he's a rock and roll king

If you like country with a boogie beat he's the man to meet (he's the man to meet)

If you like the sound of shufflin' feet he can't be beat (I say he can't be beat)

If you... If you wanna

If you wanna feel real nice, just ask the Rock and Roll doctor's advice

Ford entered the picture with the GT40, finally ending Ferrari's dominance with four straight wins (1966-1969) before the 1960s ended and the cars, and the race, changed substantially.

The Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is a mid-engined sports car built by Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo in 18 examples between 1967 and 1969. "Stradale" (Italian for "road-going") is a term often used by Italian car manufacturers to indicate a street-legal version of a racing car; indeed the 33 Stradale was derived from the Tipo 33 sports prototype.

The car takes 5.5 seconds to reach 60 mph (96.6 km/h) from a standing start and has a top speed of 260 km/h (160 mph).[11] In 1968 it was the fastest commercially available car in the standing kilometer with time of 24.0 seconds measured by German Auto, Motor und Sport magazine.[5] Similar performance cars on that time were all using twice the Stradale`s cylinder capacity, the Lamborghini Miura, Ferrari Daytona and Maserati Ghibli.[5]

The Alfa Romeo 105/115 series Coupés were a range of cars made by the Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo from 1963 until 1977.

Ferrari 512 S is the designation for 25 sports cars built in 1969–70, with five-litre 12-cylinder ("512") engines, related to the Ferrari P sports prototypes. The V12-powered cars were entered in the 1970 International Championship for Makes[2][3] by the factory Scuderia Ferrari and private teams. Later that year, modified versions resembling their main competitor, the Porsche 917, were called Ferrari 512 M (for modificata).

It might be said that Mrs.Peel was intelligent, strong, capable, cool, sophisticated liberated and sexy.

Many of the greatest car designers either own or sight the Elan as inspiration and its acknowledged that the Mazda was an advanced reworking of the Élan. No mean feat 40 years after the original.

This brief analysis helps grasp the significance of the product placement. It appeared in a programme reaching an international young consumer audience in a time of social revolution of women.

"Teresa is a saint; I'm known as Tracy"

Lazenby and Rigg did most of the driving due to the high number of close-ups.[8]

"Jim Hall is the most innovative designer in the history of American racing"

The Chaparral 2D was equipped with a 327 cubic inch displacement (5.3 liter) aluminum alloy Chevrolet engine producing 420 horsepower, and the car weighed only 924 kg.

The 2E established the paradigm for virtually all racing cars built since.[2] It was startling in appearance, with its radiators moved from the traditional location in the nose to two ducted pods on either side of the cockpit and a large wing mounted several feet above the rear of the car on struts. The wing was the opposite of an aircraft wing in that it generated down-force instead of lift and was attached directly to the rear suspension uprights, loading the tires for extra adhesion while cornering.

The 1967 2G was a development of the 2E. It featured wider tires, and a 427 aluminum Chevrolet engine. While on par with its competitors in terms of power, the lightweight 2C chassis was stretched to the limit and it was only Hall's driving skill that kept the car competitive. For the 1968 Can-Am series, still larger tires were added to increase grip

His name lives on in the McLaren team which has been one of the most successful in Formula One championship history, with McLaren cars and drivers winning a total of 20 world championships.

McLaren cars totally dominated CanAm sports car racing with 56 wins, a considerable number of them with him behind the wheel, between 1967 and 1972

In 1972 the M20s lost out in the power stakes to Roger Penske's brutally fast turbocharged Porsches. In the intervening years, however, the Can-Am was McLaren.

McLaren himself won the Can-Am title in 1967 and 1969, while team-mate Denny Hulme won it in 1968 and salvaged something from the team's distress by taking his second title in 1970, the year in which Bruce was killed testing an M8D. Hulme's 1971 team-mate was colorful American Peter Revson, who took the title in the M8F.
When McLaren began planning a replacement for the amazingly successful M6A at the end of 1967, the Can-Am had already been dubbed 'The Bruce and Denny Show'.

They had had their period of dominance - one of the longest in any professional racing series - and had in turn been dominated. Neither Teddy Mayer nor Phil Kerr of McLaren felt inclined to try matching Porsche's vast budget in the development of turbocharging and as Denny Hulme finished runner up to George Follmer in that 1972 series, the end was finally written to an outstanding chapter in road racing. Thereafter McLaren concentrated on the high-power arena of Formula One.

As team manager and team owner, Wyer won the 24 Hours of Le Mans several times. His first victory came in the 1959 edition, in his tenth anniversary as Aston Martin team manager, along with Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby, win with the DBR1. The team made their base for Le Mans at the Hotel De France from 1953 - 1975.[2] The race cars would be tended within the courtyard and garage adjacent to the hotel before being driven to and from the circuit on the road for practice, qualifying and the race.

Battling with the works Ferrari 512's and the other Porsche team, backed by Martini Racing and led by Vic Elford, the JWA Gulf-Porsche 917's, raced by Derek Bell, Jo Siffert, Richard Attwood and Pedro Rodríguez, earned many victories in 1970 and 1971, including the Spa 1000 km, but not at Le Mans. In fiction, a Gulf-Porsche 917K won in the cult movie Le Mans, making the Gulf colours even more famous.

McQueen considered being a professional race car driver. He had a one-off outing in the British Touring Car Championship in 1961, driving a BMC Mini at Brands Hatch, finishing third.[41] In the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring race, Peter Revson and McQueen (driving with a cast on his left foot from a motorcycle accident two weeks earlier) won with a Porsche 908/02 in the three-litre class and missed winning overall by 23 seconds to Mario Andretti/Ignazio Giunti/Nino Vaccarella in a five-litre Ferrari 512S.[42]

Liane is more than real. In a men dominated world, she found her way and won one race after another. Racing was all she wanted to do and all she focused on ...

Guthrie was originally an aerospace engineer and after graduating from the University of Michigan, she worked with Republic Aviation.[1] She began racing in 1963 on the SCCA circuit in a Jaguar XK 140[2] and by 1972, she was racing on a full-time basis.

Guthrie qualified for and competed in the 1977 Indianapolis 500, but finished 29th with engine troubles. She would compete in two more Indy 500s, finishing ninth in the 1978 race. Overall, she competed in 11 Indy car events with a best finish of fifth.

Last December, you might remember the stories about Janis Joplin’s Psychedelic Porsche selling at auction. Don’t be surprised if you see it being driven around the Kalamazoo/Battle Creek area. Its new owner lives on Gull Lake. Sources say she bought it to give to herself as a 60th birthday present.

The car, a 1964 Porsche 356 that once belonged to the rock singer Janis Joplin sold at auction for a record $1.76 million. The car had been expected to sell for between $400,000 and $600,000.

Since the re-creation of the artwork, the Porsche has been displayed in a number of museums, spending some time in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, and also making an appearance at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

The most recent work performed on the car was a mechanical restoration done by RM Auto Restoration which brought the car back to running condition, with RM Sotheby's publishing a $400,000 to $600,000 estimate range for the car. The $1.76 million winning bid was a surprise, even though some were confident that the $600,000 high estimate was conservative. Much hinged on the artwork, since the present coat of paint is arguably a reproduction, with much of the actual history of the car having been forever erased.

This sale represents an interesting case study both in celebrity cars and art cars. We're confident that many readers would agree that had the car maintained its dolphin gray paintwork from the '70s, it would have been viewed differently at auction in the year 2015.