[Spridgets] Donna Mae Mims

[Linda Grunthaner]

Cool she was so awesome even to her wake.
I suppose "pink" is helping me out of my funk.
Lin

On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:30 PM, <corvallis at peoplepc.com> wrote:

> A tip of the hat to those that have driven before; I didn't know this.
> ...bill in corvallis
> "In 1963, Donna Mae Mims won the Sports Car Club of America national racing
> championship driving a pink Austin-Healey 1959 Bugeye Sprite that once had
> belonged to Dr. Jonas Salk.
> She won the 1963 Class H championship after competing in ten sanctioned
> races in her Austin Healey Sprite. She placed first in two of the ten
> races,
> placed second three times.
> In the twenty year history of the Sports Car Club of America to that point,
> Mims was the first woman to win a national racing championship."
> >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Mae_Mims
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