Just got word that Denise McCluggage has passed.
Just got word that Denise McCluggage has passed.
She was a neat person.
Damn. Read her all the time back in the heyday of Autoweek. She was a true pioneer and genuine badass. A life well lived, to be sure.
Everything about her was just wonderful. This is very sad news.
Ah, bummer.
I met her a long time ago at an Alfa convention in New Mexico. Great to talk to. A few years before that, we were at the Detroit Grand Prix, where she was in the Celebrity race- so I yelled, and I think she heard. At the convention, she told me that it was her last race.
Great writer, great person.
Yes very sad news. Never met her but I always enjoyed her work.
She drove a Volvo in NASCAR. Now, that's a pioneer!
Very sad indeed. I also never had the opportunity to meet her but thoroughly enjoyed reading her columns in Autoweek whilst a young lad. I particularly remember her adventures with two stroke Saabs and wishing I was old enough to share in them. Wishing her many miles of smooth roads and gravel free turns.
Very sad. I was given a book about women racing in the 50's and there was quite a bit about her in it.
I remember reading this for my Biomechanics class in college.
She was guest speaker at our car show one year. RIP.
I enjoyed her writing humor in AutoWeek too.
Very sad. I'm sorry to hear this. I saw her give a presentation at the Larz Anderson Museum in Brookline, MA on a January evening a few years ago. She was well into her eighties at the time and was spellbinding. No notes. She just talked extemporaneously for a couple hours about her life experiences and people she knew in racing over the past 60 years or so. Another great one gone. She will be missed.
I read an awful lot of Autoweek because of Denise MccLugage and Satch Carlson. A life well spent would be a fitting epitaph.
A wonderfully gifted lady, both in driving and writing skills. She will be missed.
Nice tribute from C&D: http://blog.caranddriver.com/denise-mccluggage-legendary-writer-racer-and-adventurer-has-passed-away/
She will be missed. Always enjoyed her writing, not sure if I ever saw her race.
She will be missed. She was there for a lot of the early days of racing and knew a lot about many of our racing hero's. She also made history herself and was one of a very gifted few who could write about cars and life and make it interesting to anyone.
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