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Stats on The Driver and Car...
Drivers Name: Elaine "Stormy" Gribbins
Car Division and
#: #40 Pure Street Bomber
Age: 40 (then:-) Sex: Female
Home Town: Lebanon, TN
Occupation: Free Lance Photographer, PhotoGraphicS, Web Sites, Custom Graphics & Logos
Racing Mentor: Coo Coo Marlin, Pete Page, Darrell Waltrip
Started Driving: 1989-90;
Started driving Powder Puffs in Smyrna TN in 1967
What
Division: Pure Street Bomber
Where: Highland Rim in Ridgetop, TN
Home
Track: don't drive any more; now I get Paid to take Pictures of you guys driving!'-)
Favorite Tracks: Highland Rim, Rigetop, TN; Riverview Speedway, Carthage, TN; Barren County Speedway, Glasgow, KY
Car Info: 1974 Monte Carlo; Roll Cage by Buddy Savage;
Suspension by Ralph Young, Engine by Me & Terry Gribbins
Career Highlights: I Built her Engine, Worked 'Hands On' Most of her, Primed her, Lettered her, Drove Her, and was not intimidated by the aggressive men that Didn't Like PINK!'-)
and Had a Blast! And that was back when it Really Wasn't Cool for a girl to drive with the guys!!!'-)
Spouse: divorced
Crew: self, John Gribbins, Michael Martian, Scotty Davis, James Walls, Sandy Gribbins, and Nickel my granddaughter
A word from the Driver: Driving was a true adrenaline High, but supporting it and working on it turned into Real Work!'-) But it was a 'challenge' I vowed I could do... and I
did! And I Knew in my heart if I could do This, I can do AnyThing!!! Once I figured out I was going to have to get a 'real job' to Support Her, she wound up in the back yard under a cedar tree!
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