{"id":8153,"date":"2017-01-23T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T07:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2017-01-19T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:26:10","slug":"speed-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/23\/speed-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Dangerous Minds<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

SPEED QUEENS: THE FEARLESS FEMALE DRAG RACERS OF THE 60S AND 70S<\/h1>\n

By Cherrybomb<\/p>\n

\"\"Shirley \u201cCha Cha\u201d Muldowney on the cover of \u2018Sunday News Magazine\u2019 in 1978.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Like many fields of work, the drag racing scene was and is fairly well dominated by men. During its heyday, specifically the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, the National Hot Rod Association incorporated the use of gorgeous women\/models to help appeal to the fanboys. If you were into that scene, you probably spent a lot of time fantasizing about Pam Hardy aka \u201cJungle Pam\u201d who accompanied driver \u201cJungle Jim\u201d Liberman across the country clad in go-go boots and form-fitting, barely-there outfits that showcased her bodacious \u201cassets\u201d while she showboated on the track and in the pit for her adoring fans. Though Liberman would pass away unexpectedly in 1977, Hardy would continue to appear at racing events. But this post isn\u2019t about buxom blonde race track cheerleaders. It\u2019s about the ballsy women who drove the cars during that era\u2014and there were actually quite a lot of \u201cspeed queens\u201d that not only gave their male counterparts a run for their money, but also blazed a trail for other women who wanted smoke up the track.<\/p>\n

And since I know you\u2019re curious, here\u2019s a shot of \u201cJungle Pam.\u201d Though her attire says otherwise, it must have been cold that day.<\/p>\n

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from Dangerous Minds SPEED QUEENS: THE FEARLESS FEMALE DRAG RACERS OF THE 60S AND 70S By Cherrybomb Shirley \u201cCha Cha\u201d Muldowney on the cover of \u2018Sunday News Magazine\u2019 in 1978.\u00a0 Like many fields of work, the drag racing scene was and is fairly well dominated by men. During its heyday, specifically the mid-1960s through the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}