100 years ago

Augusta and Adeline Van Buren were 24 and 22 at the time, respectively, when they became one of the first people to cross America by motor vehicle

The Sisters' Centennial Motorcycle Ride departs today, leaving from Brooklyn and heading briefly north to Springfield, Massachusetts, the ancestral home of Indian. From there, the journey traces the Lincoln Highway—America's first interstate roadway—and hits such notable points as the AMA Hall of Fame in Columbus, Ohio, the Rocky Mountain Motorcycle Museum in Colorado, and Pikes Peak. Proceeds from the event will go to Final Salute, a charity that helps homeless female veterans, and the Women's Coalition of Motorcyclists.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/news/a29817/a-hundred-years-ago-two-sisters-crossed-america-on-indian-motorcycles/

I covered this last October http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/10/next-year-is-100th-anniversary-of-van.html

http://sistersmotorcycleride.com/

Two charities will be funded as a result of the Sisters’ Centennial Motorcycle Ride’s event efforts: Final Salute: A national women’s veterans’ organization which provides temporary and permanent housing for the over 500,000 homeless female veterans in the United States and Women’s Coalition of Motorcyclists: Providing funding for motorcycle train-the-trainer scholarships that will help enlarge the number of female instructors and coaches for road, dirt and track.

http://www.finalsaluteinc.org/
https://www.facebook.com/FinalSaluteInc
wcm2020.org
https://www.facebook.com/Womens-Coalition-of-Motorcyclists-128376367335799/timeline/

A-10

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4014/how-a-small-town-girl-ended-up-in-the-cockpit-of-an-a-10-warthog

in the summer of '71 Southwest started up, and needed flight attendents, and 2 of them are still dedicated to the job, 45 years later!

Sandra Force was 26, a former Miss Tennessee, and was in Dallas at the right time to get in with the 1st hiring drive.

CJ Bostic was 23, and a former model for Rothschilds and Neiman Marcus.

What seems amazing to me.. is that there are 4 other original crew still with the airline... not many companies have lasted 45 years, and darn few of them have been good enough to work at for 45 years. That is really remarkable

https://issuu.com/southwestmag/docs/june2016?e=18825507%2F36113032  page 76

So, who is the woman in the new Top Gear host team? Very accomplished, at many things, and has been racing on the ring probably more than anyone else... she was BMW's driver

Sabine Schmitz is as famed as a motor racing driver for BMW and Porsche is she is famous for driving the BMW 'Ring Taxi' around the Nurburgring race track, for 14 years, where tourists could pay to ride along with a pro driver

She has also been on Top Gear before, in 2004 she competed with Jeremy in a Jag around the Ring, and beat him by 47 seconds... and raced him in a van... yeah, a van, and was only 9 seconds off his pace



skip the first 4 minutes



she won the 24 Hours Nurburgring in 1996 and 97.
She also trained as a hotel manager and sommelier, and she owned a bar-restaurant in Nurburg

And if fast cars weren't challenge enough, Sabine qualified as a helicopter pilot in 2004.

For a good interview of Sabine: http://www.m5board.com/vbulletin/most-memorable-threads/39033-answers-sabine-ring-taxi-driver.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3444138/How-Sabine-Schmitz-new-Gear-host.html

Thanks Steve! 

WHOA! hang on... there are no brakes and no suspension... how did the ordinarily safety minded women get talked into riding these carts?

Seriously, women are always ruining the fun by pointing out the dangerous stupid things boys and men get up to... and look at THESE! Nuts!

https://www.facebook.com/CathMoncan