There’s Shirley Muldowney, Danica Patrick and perhaps a handful of famous female motorheads, but anecdotal data shows that a very small fraction of the hot rodding community are women. House Industries’ Historical and Cultural commission determined after extensive research that women, in general, foster a higher level of common sense that prevents them from piloting fragile hand-made vehicles with limited stopping power at triple-digit speeds while hurtling down a one-quarter mile strip of asphalt. However, the same research also showed that chicks dig fast cars.