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16/12/2024 8:41 pm
I miss all the Automotive magazines and their writers that crowded the stands years ago. There were too many favorites to just name only one. R.I.P. Jean 💗
Steve
17/12/2024 7:30 am
R.I.P.
17/12/2024 10:03 am
Autoweek had a very nice write-up: https://www.autoweek.com/news/a63203677/jean-jennings-obituary/
David Green and Tony Perrone reacted
17/12/2024 10:38 am
She lived a very boring life, just writings about cars. That was it.
Well, except that at Automobile, Jennings became known for her automotive adventures with some of the most prominent and important people in and out of automotive culture. She spent 9,000 miles in the first of Brock Yates' One Lap of America with Parnelli Jones in a panel van disguised as a Stroh's Brewery truck; was close to auto writer and racer Denise McCluggage for 30 years; mooned race car drivers Dan Gurney and Phil Hill; drove to the top of the world with Swedish rally driver Erik Carlsson; spent a day in 1990 and drank Johnnie Walker Red with Porsche design chief Tony Lapine and 90-year old champion Bugatti driver Eliška Junková (Elizabeth Junek) at her apartment in the Swedish embassy in Prague, just after the Berlin Wall fell;[16] rode motorcycles across China with Malcolm Smith; followed the Camel Trophy in Madagascar; raced in Baja with a Russian circle-track driver; navigated in the 2000-mile Pirelli-Classic Marathon vintage rally in a 1965 MGB across the Alps with Stirling Moss; and in 1983 drove a yellow prototype C4 Corvette with Chuck Yeager.[6]
17/12/2024 10:47 am
A name from the past that had receded in my memory. Sorry to see her go in a way that seems all too common today. Thanks everyone for the comments and history. She had a very interesting life.
