Comments on: World’s Fastest Woman Driver (Mar, 1949)

By: sookie

sookie — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:02:38 +0000

Repack Rider said: “Mrs. Richard L. Winton does not seem to have a name of her own.”
Comment by Repack Rider — March 17, 2009 @ 2:29

Charlie you are a man after my own heart. i was thinking the same thing. tried finding something that would identify her by her name and came up empty. i know her accomplishment was 60 years ago, but i wish that someone at the time had acknowledged her by her own name.

PS: your knots are great

By: sweavo

sweavo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:02:16 +0000

@Eli, think of what you are saying! I don’t think either gender wants a world of naked men in sports cars.

By: rsterling78

rsterling78 — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:57:11 +0000

“In her hot rod, “Drool,” the decorative Mrs. Winton…”

I’ve never heard of a woman being described as “decorative”.

By: slim

slim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:21:49 +0000

I have a hunch that Mrs. Winton was happy to show off her body. She doesn’t look like the shrinking violet type to me.

By: LightningRose

LightningRose — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:49:45 +0000

The auto bears quite a resemblance to a Jaguar XK-150.

http://images.google.com/image.....r%20xk-120

By: Eli

Eli — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:11:31 +0000

I wonder… Had the driver been a man, would they have had him pose next to the car in a Speedo? It’s really kinda sad that she had to show off her body to get recognition for a driving accomplishment.

By: Zak Lybrand

Zak Lybrand — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:52:21 +0000

I often get the urge to yell that myself, but refrain due to the fact that most of the people I drive around pack heat…

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:06:41 +0000

I still yell that whenever I see a woman driver. It gets me some strange looks.

By: Repack Rider

Repack Rider — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:29:17 +0000

Mrs. Richard L. Winton does not seem to have a name of her own.

By: Charlene

Charlene — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:21:58 +0000

Yes, men did yell “woman driver” at any woman driving, because women were supposed to be bad drivers who should not be on the road in the first place.

Even in the 1970s the Guinness Book of World Records’s listing of the “worst driver” put the fact that the driver was male in bold and italics, as if this were something to barely be believed.