Unexpected Gearheads

Meet Ina and Aries.

Ina is one of my coworkers. She's about 5ft tall and in her 50s or 60s, I don't ask .  She's an Air Force veteran and currently serves as a civilian emplyee for the Air Force. I've also learned her other hobbies include guns and video games. She's seriously a very fun and down to earth person. Aries is one of Ina's Mustangs, I think the other is a 5.0 foxbody. Aries is a 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350, you know with the 526hp flat-plane-crank V8 that revs to 8000rpm . She usually drives her GT350 on weekends at a spot locals call the "three sisters" which are very twisty and fun roads west of San Antonio.  

I was finally able to catch Ina yesterday in her GT350 that she doesn't drive very often to work  (our parking situation is not ideal). So, I took a pic and figured the GRM folks would enjoy seeing such a pairing. Yesterday was also Ina birthday. 

Ina sounds cool as hell. Thanks for sharing her story & ride!

Awesome!

Life goals. Be like Ina. 

Awesome. Happy birthday, Ina!

Speak softly and carry a lot of fire-power. I be liking this woman.

Pete

Very cool! 

Introduce her to autocross?

In reply to Gearheadotaku :

I can't; been there done that lol

Wonderful, thank for sharing!

One day at work several years back, I got to talking to our new copy editor--a nice, quiet lady in her 60s. Librarian type. She knew I liked cars and asked me what I had one day. Then she starts talking about her cars:

"Well, my first car was an MGA...got into drag racing, so I sold that and got a new '65 K-code Mustang...raced that for a while, then I got a '69 Mach 1...sold that, got a 4-speed Cuda...kept that until I got my turbo Mazda..."

If it's possible to smile with your jaw on the floor, I was.

I would happily pay big bucks for a coffee-table book of unexpected gearheads, pix and bios exactly like this.

If I were single....I'd want to meet her.

Thank you and her for us for your Service.

Hammer down.

Supremely cool story ... that made my day.  Thank you for sharing it!

Everything about that post is fantastic. Right on.

Jay_W said:

I would happily pay big bucks for a coffee-table book of unexpected gearheads, pix and bios exactly like this.

This is an excellent idea.