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<DIV><FONT size=2>For All</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>For those of you who are interested, a very fine lady passed
away. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>This was forwarded from my dear friend Connie Fournier
who races Corvettes with her husband.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Michelle B</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>(Shell)</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Hi everyone,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"><BR>This was a nice write up that was in
Friday’s Post Gazette. Also, would like to get as many corvettes as
possible for the caravan from Beinhauer’s to Bela Sera in Peters. Should
be a great lunch, and what a great way to pay tribute to Donna Mae.
Colussy’s did a great job of detailing her car, and it looks very nice.
Meeting at Beinhauer’s around 11. You can also go as
early as 10 for last viewing, and the service starts at 11, and
caravan will depart after the service. Hope to see lots of you
there.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Obituary: Donna Mae Mims / Champion race
car driver</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">July 1, 1927 - Oct. 6,
2009</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Friday, October 09,
2009</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">By Ray Fittipaldo, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Donna Mae Mims, an eccentric champion
race car driver who was portrayed in the Hollywood movie "The Cannonball Run,"
died Tuesday from complications from a series of strokes. She was
82.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Known as the Pink Lady of sports car
racing because most of her cars were painted pink, Ms. Mims, whose maiden name
was Warnock, graduated from Dormont High School in 1945. She first became
interested in race cars when she and her husband, Mike, came upon an
unusual-looking two-seater at a car dealership on West Liberty Avenue in the
1950s.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">They came to learn that the car was a
Corvette and later bought their first one at Kenny Ross
Chevrolet.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">"She said the thing she liked best about
it was that her in-laws couldn't ride with them," said longtime friend Don
Baker.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">The couple bought their first
fuel-injected Corvette at Yenko Chevrolet in Canonsburg, where she was an
executive secretary and later the liaison for design and production with the
Yenko sports car division.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims started racing cars with her
friends from Yenko in 1960 and quickly became one of the top amateur race car
drivers in the country. Ms. Mims, who had by then divorced her husband, became
the first woman to win a Sports Car Club of America national racing championship
in 1963, at the wheel of her pink Austin-Healey 1959 Bugeye Sprite that once had
belonged to Dr. Jonas Salk.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">"She was just racing for fun with her
friends," said Dan DelBianco, the executive director of the Vintage Grand Prix
and a friend of Ms. Mims. "At the final race she was told if she came in fifth
place or better than she would be the champion. That was the only time she got
nervous, she told me."</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims also raced a pink Corvette,
Corvair, Triumph TR3 and MGB.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">"On the back of most of my cars I had
'THINK PINK,'" Ms. Mims told the Post-Gazette earlier this year. "I liked pink
ever since I was a little girl."</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims liked her pink Corvette so much
that it was her dying wish to be laid out in it at Beinhauer Funeral Home in
Peters. The car was being detailed yesterday and was going to be taken to the
funeral home, where a viewing will take place tomorrow and
Sunday.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">"Nobody has ever done anything like
this," said Aaron Beinhauer of Beinhauer Family Services. "But it was her wish.
I talked to her personally about it three years ago."</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Following the final visitation, friends
are encouraged to drive their Corvettes to a reception at Bella Sera in
Canonsburg.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims was well known in national and
local auto racing circles. She volunteered at the annual Pittsburgh Vintage
Grand Prix and often worked the starting grid so she could be close to the
cars.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">"She was a colorful person," Mr.
DelBianco said. "She was just a joy to know, a real
character."</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims raced for 14 years and in 1972
took part in Brock Yates' original Cannonball Run Race, the cross-country outlaw
road race that was made famous by the 1981 movie "The Cannonball Run," starring
Burt Reynolds and Farrah Fawcett.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims, along with teammates Judy
Stropus and Peggy Niemcek, borrowed a limousine from a friend, got some racing
tires put on and used it on their trek.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">"Most memorable is the ticketing event
in the wee dark hours as we were pulled over by a Barney Fife look-a-like who
claimed he'd been chasing us for 15 minutes at 115 miles per hour," Ms. Mims
said in Mr. Yates' book "Cannonball: The World's Greatest Outlaw Road Race." "No
bribe could corrupt this pure-hearted Don Knotts, and we were doomed to follow
him to the magistrate."</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims was taking a nap when the limo
wrecked in Texas. The vehicle was totaled and the women were stuck, so they sold
it and bought plane tickets home.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Mr. Baker said Ms. Mims often told the
Cannonball Run stories when local organizations hired her as a guest speaker.
One of the stories was about their sponsor for the race, the Right Bra Co. An
official from Right Bra attended the pre-race festivities, and the women asked
for bras to wear during the race.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">When the official told them he didn't
have any, they decided to do the race braless and wore tight-fitting shirts and
pants. In the movie, actress Adrienne Barbeau portrayed Ms.
Mims.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Ms. Mims was a member of the Sports Car
Club of America and taught Sunday school as an active member in Mt. Lebanon
United Methodist Church.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">A viewing will take place tomorrow and
Sunday from 2 to 8 at Beinhauer Funeral Home in Peters with an additional
visitation from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday. Memorial contributions may be made to the
National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green, Ky.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=4 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"><BR><BR>Read more: <A
href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09282/1004146-122.stm#ixzz0TdkzWg39"
target=_blank>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09282/1004146-122.stm#ixzz0TdkzWg39</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<DIV>Subject: Donna Mae Mims Video Tribute<BR><BR>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Today, October
12<SUP>th</SUP>, was the memorial service and tribute to our dear friend, Donna
Mae. Attached is a link to a video tribute produced to Beinhauer Family
Funeral Services. Please keep in mind when you chose to view it that it is
one hour, 20 minutes long, but worth every minute of your
time.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Those of you such as
John Walko, Dave Alvarez, </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">Dave Williams</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black">, Beth
Anselm, Debbie LeFond, Carol Davis, etc please pass this email on to your club
members and other interested persons.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Tx</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Eric
Dean</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><A
href="http://www.eventbywire.com/viewevent/?id=507-844"
target=_blank>http://www.eventbywire.com/viewevent/?id=507-844</A></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">password is:
<STRONG><FONT color=#ff0000>beinhauer</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=black size=3 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The general web
address of Beinhauer Family Funeral Services is <A
href="http://www.beinhauerfamilyservices.com/Peters_Township_132590.html"
target=_blank>http://www.beinhauerfamilyservices.com/Peters_Township_132590.html</A>,
which has her obituary and other information.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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