Sometimes a car is just a car in the grocery store parking lot
Sometimes, but not always.
A car can be a ticket to past and future experiences, a time machine that reminds us of people loved and lost. During this time of uncertainty, we get to savor small moments, and make new memories that nourish our souls.
Women from all over the country spoke to the Detroit Free Press about their cars.
Brannon wondered aloud if the reporter was trying to insult her when she was asked why she didn’t drive a car.
Love for the mustang is hilarious and touching. It’s a cult following that attracts hundreds and thousands of people at a time from all income levels. Women show off their personalized cars and swap stories.
At the Detroit auto show this month, Ford showed off a new gas powered mustang.
Jonathan Klinger, vice president of car culture at Hagerty, said thatMustang is the poster child of the pony car class. The most insured classic car is the mustang.
Ford sales surpass 10 million and the mustang is almost 60 years old. Jim Owens said that more than one in five mustang buyers is female.
There is something different about owning a car for a woman. They have to prove they are in the family. Some people say that mustang is part of their family.
Their stories are listed here.
‘Drive for hours’
Grace Poer, an administrative assistant from Florida, said that her daughter has always been a fan of the game. Poer was a single mom and used to rent a car for her daughter’s birthday weekends.
She graduated from high school that day. Her hair is not dry. There is no driving off the cliff like in the movie. You don’t feel like you’re trapped in a car. It is similar to therapy.
Four years ago, Poer and Robert met. She has two cars, one black and one white. He has two cars, one orange and one white.
It is a classic muscle car. It’s empowerment for women. It’s gratifying to know there are so many women who like cars. We don’t all depend on men.
Keeping a promise
As a child, Gina Encinas promised to buy a car and take her grandma for a ride.
Encinas said that his father bought him a used 1979 mustang. A person ran into me. My father replaced it with a giant Mercury Monarch because he said no more small cars for you. I didn’t purchase a mustang until May 2022.
She received a 1966 mustang for retirement.
Encinas called his mom and said he would take her for a ride in his pony. She was strapped into the back seat and taken for a ride. I was able to keep my promise despite my grandma’s death.
Be brave
Heather said her father wanted her to be self-sufficient.
She said that she had a photo of her at 2 years old handing him a wrench in the garage. I’d have to get at a hard-to-reach screw or hold onto a few small parts so he wouldn’t lose them. He made sure I knew how to change a tire before I applied for a driver’s license. He wanted me to be able to handle anything.
Before leaving on a 250-mile trip that required her to drive alone from Santa Fe on a two-lane highway with limited cell service, she had to fix a leaking lower radiators hose.
Storm said that he drove to Colorado without any problems. Whenever I face challenges that bring up fear, I retain my confidence.
People assume her car is his when she is at a gas station with a male friend.
Storm likes to see their face when he opens the hood and checks the fluids. I like bucking the stereotype that women can’t work on cars.
She said that preserving classic cars is important.
The ’65 mustang is an example of an era of exploration that is nostalgic. Storm said that when he’s driving his classic mustang, he’s enjoying the loud engine, smell of gasoline, and the time it takes to pull out of a parking spot. I feel like I know what it was like to live in 1965, when I was younger.
A shift in attitude
Kary Kidder started Mustang Mamas on Facebook to allow women to connect, swap notes and share stories about their cars. She said it has grown to include more than 2200 women in the US and around the world. Hawaii and Alaska are included in the list.
When Kidder was 5 years old, she rode in the back seat of her mom’s car with a white vinyl interior and white vinyl top, and that’s when she fell in love with the mustang.
Kidder didn’t know how to work on cars when he was younger. She asked the men in the clubs if she could watch and teach them. There are crickets “total silence,” Kidder said.
She said she heard a lot of stories about women not being able to ask questions. Women weren’t being respected. We are here to help each other. It has been a male-driven hobby for a long time.
The mechanic’s daughter
A human resources manager from Virginia named Nickie is a licensed competitive racer who drives a 1999 mustang cobra through the national auto sport association She has two cars, one of which is in the garage and needs attention. She is the family’s jewel.
She spent her formative years watching the world around her.
When I was a kid, my dad was a mechanic and he restored a car. She said that she saw what he did. It runs in the blood of die-hard mustang fans. The family has passed it down.
Look mean
Brannon’s husband has a 1965, her son has a 1993 and she has a 1978 car.
Brannon said they went to “Ponies in the Smokies” in March. There were thousands of mustangs up there.” The cars from the old ones to the new ones just rolled off the lot.
She said that they looked like pit bulls to her.
‘Sexy and beautiful’
The office manager from Beaverton, Oregon, has worked for Chrysler and Volkswagen for over two decades. She is a mustang girl.
Even though her boyfriend told her not to exceed her father’s loan, she bought her first car for just over $2,000. The 1969 Mach 1 was sexy and beautiful.
McCombs said that her husband was driving a 1970 Ford Torino Cobra Jet with a 429 engine. I don’t know what caught my attention first, the car or him. He has a car with a manual. I’m very happy that Ford is still in there with the car.
‘He grabs my hand’
Julie Teuber purchased a car for her 60th birthday. One of the owners of the 1964 1/2 mustang kept it in a garage.
Teuber said that his aunt had a white 1965 Ford mustang. I was 4 years old when she got it, and I still think it was parked outside my grandparents home.
Two years ago, her 29-year-old son was injured by a drunk driver in a head-on collision and he lost his girlfriend. When he saw the car, he changed his behavior.
It’s a healing thing for him. A boy is almost 2 years old. Makai is enamored with my car. He grabbed my hand and told me to open the passenger side of the car as he climbed in. He says “key” as I get in and points to the car. I asked what you wanted me to do. He said, “Go.”
The little kid would go all day doing that. When I see how my memories were created when I was younger, I get to see new ones being created in my own family.
She said she was excited to pass on the legacy of the mustang.
Feel good
The owner of a towing company is a woman. She was introduced to the life of mustang by her father who owned a paint and body shop. She has only owned it.
Scott said that getting into his car made him feel better.
She and her husband have been married for 30 years.
My dad taught me the tools when I was young. This is a wrench. She said that he would teach her how to change the belts. My husband is going to ask me for a 10 millimeter wrench. Are you aware?
She is teaching her son how to drive.
People still ask Scott if his husband’s car is his.
She said it makes her crazy. They don’t understand that there is a lot of women who drive cars.
Grab me a beer and tools
Kim Wasielewski was born in Royal Oak and raised in Lake Orion. She was going to take a 1969 mustang for a test drive. It was smoking on the side of the road due to the ice storm and lack of antifreeze. It was taken away by a tow truck.
She remembers learning how to fix cars from her dad after school. He would give his daughter a beer, a chair and tools if a part broke, so she could buy him something else.
Wasielewski said that he was able to change his own oil or motor because of the instructions he was given.
She blew a couple clutches and threw a couple engines. She has a white car. She’s looking for a purple mach 1.
Wasielewski learned to drive in Detroit. The cars are very fast. It makes me feel better about my temperament.
Happy birthday
“I have loved cars my whole life because of my dad,” said the 51-year-old woman from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She said that time spent with the car is sentimental because of the mechanic’s death.
A truck driver put a woman in the hospital after hitting her car. She replaced that car with a new one. Her husband gave her a car for her birthday.
I adore my husband, my family and my car.
Everyone would like the photo release. He was not believed by anyone.
The first person to own a Ford mustang kept it. It is now worth 350,000 dollars.
There will be 1,000 mustangs at the auto show.
A family’s love for a Ford car extends generations.
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