PAW: Shirley

[Paul Stenquist]

Americans probably know Shirley, maybe even the Canadians. If anyone 
else would like to know her, rent the movie called "Heart Like a 
Wheel." Bonny Badalia plays Shirley. Good story. I had the pleasure of 
meeting Shirley several times over the years, and my race car even came 
 up against her once when she was still running funny cars. That was 
1974. She's a very special lady. Here she is at Englishtown, New Jersey 
some twenty years ago in the pink car. By then she was a top fuel world 
champion. The camera was a Fuji 801, but at least it had an M42 mount. 
The lens was probably my venerable Vivitar 200/3.5. After a dragster 
made a burnout, I would clean the molten rubber off of it with my 
t-shirt. Whatever works.
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