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UPPER DARBY, PENNSYLVANIA — A new business is opening near Philadelphia that will give women the know-how to work on their cars - and do it with style. The garage doors were officially raised Friday ...

MERRIAM, Kan. — Stevie McRoberts is the only female auto technician at JoCo Auto. She’s been in the male-dominated industry for the past three years, and is used to being the only the woman in the ...

Imagine a car repair shop that has a “Ladies Appreciation Day”—where your car gets pampered with an oil change or state inspection while its owner gets a therapeutic chair massage or skin care advice ...

Audra Fordin insists that her customers name their vehicles. "When you give your car a name, you take better care of it," she said. "It makes things more personal." After all, "it's your butt in the ...

WESTON - Stephanie Lopez tells the story: A tow truck driver was dropping off a customer's car at Wooster's Garage, and he walked in and asked her if he could talk to the mechanic. "I'm the mechanic," ...

Patrice Banks is now a mechanic, and the owner of a successful auto clinic, but there was a time when she avoided taking her own car in for routine maintenance. “I was afraid I was going to be taken ...

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Wearing a backwards red ball cap, skinny jeans and high-heel boots, Patrice Banks is doing her thing at the Girls Auto Clinic in the Philadelphia area. “That vroom, vroom noise you hear at a shop is ...

LEWISVILLE (CBSDFW.COM) - In an effort to make women feel more comfortable in the world of automobiles, two friends got behind the wheel and opened up their own auto repair shop in North Texas. Kimera ...