“The (show)is a positive thing - great for the community - (and) I’m very happy to be part of it.” “I love doing the parade, then setting up and educating the public on the police cars – that’s what I love best,” said Roman, a former detective whose collection includes four other police cars. Both are former patrol cars in the green, black and white colors of NYPD vehicles of those eras. Lovers of vintage cars can admire vehicles like Al Roman’s two-door 1940 Plymouth Road King and 1968 Plymouth Fury 1. Jones has achieved celebrity status on the show circuit, with appearances on TV programs such as “Hard Parts South Bronx,” a reality show about the car-parts business.

“I’ve done car shows up and down the East Coast, from Buffalo, N.Y. “I found out about the show from a friend,” said the Harlem resident. Jones was the standout of the 2012 show, scooping the second of her career People’s Choice Awards and placing first in two other categories. She has also risen to legendary status in the Upper Manhattan Auto Show with three successive People’s Choice Awards for her jaw-dropping, Michael Jackson-themed 2007 Saturn Sky Redline with switchblade doors that she personally reconstructed.

Tammy Jones, who began fixing cars during a 13-year stint in the Army, is one of the women who followed in White’s path. “If they have to restore it, they learn how to do that.” “They are so into it that they learn how to work on (the cars).

Tammy Jones won the 2007 Upper Manhattan Auto Show with “Tarantula Sky.”Īccording to Reginald Idlett, a co-founder of the auto show that began 28 years ago, women made up 10% of last year’s 125 participants.

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