Donna mae mims racing dudes
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As executive secretary at Yenko, in , Mims started racing cars with friends from Yenko. She quickly became one of the top amateur race car drivers in the country, and Manager of Hi-Performance at Yenko Sports Cars.
Her career and involvement in Yenko led her to racing such cars as the Camaro, Austin Healey, MG, Corvette and Corvairs.
She worked for Yenko Chevrolet and Yenko sports car division as executive secretary for both and was the liaison for design and production with the Yenko sports car division. They worked on performance for cars such as the Duece, Camaro, Nova, Chevelle, Corvair, and Yenko Stinger.She worked closely with Zora Arkus-Duntov, Ed Cole and the pioneers of Chevrolet Racing. She coordinated parts delivery and car development of Corvette Race Cars in Canonsburg PA.
Mims freelanced as a writer for several car magazines, including Competition Press, Corvette News, SCCA&#;s Sports Car, and Sports Car Graphic magazines, among others.
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Donna Mae Mims Memorial Spridget Race
PVGP to Honor Donna Mae Mims
Schenley Park Vintage Races – Saturday, July 23,
July 1, &#; The PVGP is hosting a Sprite/Midget (“Spridget”) Race pitting Austin Healey Sprites against their close relatives, MG Midgets. This is part of the Vintage Sports Car Driver’s Association’s Sprite-Midget Racing Series.
The Pittsburgh version of this series is named in honor of Donna Mae Mims, of Pittsburgh. Known as the “Pink Lady” of racing, she was the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America road racing National Championship, in Though she was a Chevrolet “fanatic,” a Corvette autocrosser, and a founding member of the Corvette Club of Western Pennsylvania, she won the national title in her pink Austin-Healey “Bugeye” Sprite. It was a car that had once belonged to Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines while a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Donna Mae graduated from Dormont Hig
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Donna Mae Mims
| Donna Mae Mims | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Born | July 1, |
| Died | October 6, () (aged&#;82) |
| Debut season | |
| SCCA National Championship Runoffs H Production Champion | |
Donna Mae Mims (July 1, – October 6, ) was an American race car driver. She was the first woman to win a Sports fordon Club of America (SCCA) national championship. Mims won the SCCA Class H championship in She was known as the "Pink Lady" of racing because she wore a pink racing helmet and coveralls and had the phrase "Think Pink" emblazoned on the back of her pink racing cars. Mims also competed in the third running of the Cannonball Run race in November
Biography
[edit]Early years
[edit]Mims graduated from Dormont High School in Dormont, Pennsylvania, in [1] In the s, Mims worked as an executive sekreterare at Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Automobile racing
[edit]She and her husband purchased a fuel-injected Corvette and developed an interest in a