Linda Vaughn was discharged last wed, from the hospital after a heart attack in Feb, at Daytona following Darrell Gwynn‘s celebrity fishing tournament.

 She underwent surgery on February 14 at Halifax Hospital 

She remained under medical supervision for several weeks before being discharged on March 11 and continuing her recovery outside of the hospital.

https://nationaltoday.com/us/fl/daytona-beach/news/2026/03/12/linda-vaughn-recovering-after-daytona-medical-emergency

the Doc Watson Action Team, and Linda!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1270759851747422&set=a.556433073180107

Linda and a El Camino pace car

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/199354721001193227/

Ever wonder what Linda dressed up like for Halloween? Wonder no more, it's adorable

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=933010168879054&set=gm.1238412964132404&idorvanity=300103187963391

How many rock videos has Linda Vaughn ever been in? With Bigfoot? And a 1968 or 69 Nascar race? Thank you Kim!

a 16 year old kid won this contest give away car, and only got one ride in it, in the back seat, and never saw the car again... his dad arranged for the contest to give the family a Polara wagon instead of this dragster

 

Keith Black worked his magic on the 340. Carl Schiefer reworked the A-833 manual transmission and installed a Schiefer Rev-Lok clutch assembly.

The paintwork was performed by George Barris.

Exhibition wheel stander extraordinaire Bill Shrewsberry handled the driving chores to round out the team. Shrewsberry’s great reaction times at the Christmas tree and his swiftness with the 4-speed placed him in the class finals. The Black prepared 340 ran just a few hundreds over the class record all day. However, in the finals, at the ’69 NHRA Springnationals in Dallas, Texas, he was beat by a Pontiac with 60 more cubic inches

The giveaway portion of the project ran into a snag right from the beginning. The winner of the Swinger was a 16-year-old kid named David Outlaw. David filled out a Cragar Swinger Contest form while accompanying his mother, Odis, to a local tire store. Cragar and Dodge quickly awarded his mother the winner.

With great fanfare, David and his mother met all the officials from Dodge, Cragar, NHRA, and other project sponsors, including “Miss Hurst” Linda Vaughn. After the “grins and grips,” David was relegated to the Dart’s back seat while his mom took the driver’s seat and “Miss Hurst” rode shotgun. After an uninspiring drive down the quarter-mile, the Dodge officials informed Mrs. Outlaw the Dodge would be stored until arrangements were made to ship the Swinger to Florida.

David would never ride in the Dart again. Upon his father’s return from his Air Force deployment in Thailand, Mr. Outlaw learned of the Swinger. Not needing a race car, he quickly made arrangements for Dodge to keep the Dart while providing the Outlaw family with a new Polara wagon.

Dodge sent the Swinger to Garland Dodge in Dallas, and the race car was summarily sold (financed) to Jimmy Crank sans a warranty. Crank drove the unmuffled Dart on the street for a brief time before restricting it to race duty at a few AHRA events. Finally, in the early ‘80s, the Swinger was relegated to Crank’s garage, where it rested for the remainder of the decade.

     

https://moparconnectionmagazine.com/gallery-always-a-winner-with-classic-industries-and-cragar/

Here's a photo of Linda I've never seen before, with Breedlove's American Spirit

 I'm more posting it for the vehicle next to her, than just to post a photo of Linda. We all know what she looks like, and what a exemplary spokeswoman she was for Hurst, probably better than any other company rep in the aftermarket business. 

the original has a bit better resolution

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10220668793170246&set=gm.3666508370115691

part of the racing car exhibit at Bethesda, which I've never heard of, but probably was in line or part of the Hurst Armed Forces club

https://www.facebook.com/groups/505973489414476/permalink/4361107327234387

This was not mentioned in Linda's recent book

one cool little muscle car, the Hurst SC/Rambler... dual quad, dual exhaust, dual awesome autographs

https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0121-444500/1969-amc-hurst-scrambler/

advertising, aka using women to sell things to men that women don't use

for anyone that instantly wants to inform me how they know women who went out and bought a Hurst shifter, don't. 

I've got a lifetime of experience around muscle cars, and 99% of women don't buy shifters, or muscle cars, or read this blog

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1179

I don't think I've posted this before

goofy dress, cool gold rims

https://frenchcurious.tumblr.com/page/456

this is the first time I've seen Linda Vaughn in the NHRA early 70s print.

the NHRA made sheets and duffle bags with this print too, I posted them in 2013

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/01/most-unusual-and-rare-nhra-souvenir-you.html

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1961201400693133/

some guys have a snit fit over a woman posing on a car hood... Seems a bad idea to generalize. They really should specify any woman but Linda Vaughn.

The muscle car world is better because Linda Vaughn is a part of it.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10214124747936153&set=p.10214124747936153&type=3&permPage=1

Bucket bug? Whatever, he doesn't loo happy to get his photo, and his trophy.

Maybe he wasn't too pleased to learn Linda was going to be out of his line of sight during the photo shoot

https://www.michelvaillant.com/forum/index.php?action=vthread&forum=10&topic=990&page=153#msg76584

Sportmanship award for Jim Dunn and Al Yates, the Green Mountain Boys with Linda Vaughn at the Patch in 1966.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/943376445791958/photos/?filter=photos

Linda Vaughn took a last parade lap standing on the original 1972 Hurst 442, with the original platform, and the original Hurst Golden Shifter at the 2018 Hurst Nationals in Carlisle, PA

the '71 Hurst Jeepster Special, and Hurst spokeswoman, Miss Golden Shifter, Linda Vaughn

First of the 1971 models from Jeep Corporation, a subsidiary of American Motors, is the unique Hurst/Jeepster Special.

A customized version of the Jeepster Commando station wagon and featured such performance characteristics as rally stripes on the cowl and tailgate, wide tread Poylglas tires with raised white lettering, a scoop-mounted tachometer and a choice of Hurst’s Dual Gate shifter with automatic transmission or Hurst T-handle shifter with manual transmission.

https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/55093

I've posted these Hurst Jeepsters before, but this is the 1st time I've seen publicity photos of one with Linda

1972 Indy 500, and Hurst Olds 442s are making the most of the publicity moment (thanks Bruce!)

there was a year in the early 70s when baby blue eye shadow was the in thing. It didn't last long, but Linda tried it once

sadly it looks a little like the make up that the oompa loompas used

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1442437625902849/