There's no question Tamara Perez is a girly girl. From one of her prized vehicles, she removes sparkly eight-inch heels and a large brown-and-gold Louis Vuitton purse.As she stands near the mud trails at the Guam International Raceway, the sun reflects off her silver Tiffany heart and chain.
She's careful in handling her girly items because of the grease on her.Yes, Perez is a girly girl, but on the weekends she's a gearhead.On most days,Fast shipping and best prices on Cheap Michael Kors. Buy Now! you'll find the 27-year-old mother of two driving her Lexus GS -- but it's not her car of choice. She prefers cruising in a 1984 Nissan ST pickup and climbing boulders in an old Toyota truck built for off-roading.
Since enrolling herself in an automotive class in high school, Perez has been in love with working under the hood of vehicles and putting her foot on the gas pedal when she's on the drag strip.
But more recently, she's developed a love for problem-solving on the dirt trails.Shop this season's new christian louboutin sandals now. In December, she and her fiance bought an old Toyota Hilux pickup that's been outfitted for off-roading.
"We bought it as is, but we added a hydraulic steering," she says. "Basically, it's like power steering, but better. Then we added sway bars to keep the body from swaying."Off-roading meant she'd have to overlook her natural girly-girl instincts.
"I get mad when we end up hitting something on the trail," she says. "But you can't have a nice off-road truck. You're going to end up hitting stuff or getting scratched up. I ended up giving in."This isn't a mom who's afraid of a little bit of dirt. She recently hit a deep hole and had her cabin fill up with mud. She didn't flinch.
Last month, Perez came in third at the Mud Drags, pulling a 10.1 second run.Shop our selection of designer shoes, including Manolo Blahnik, christian louboutin shoes."Most girls don't like to get dirty," she says. "With me I just say, let's just try to get through it."When she's not flinging dirt in her monster truck, Perez prefers her Nissan sport truck, which she's taken claim to from her fiance.
"It's basically everything you could do to the engine, we did."
The pickup is mostly in an uncut state, but has additions like a nitrous oxide, or NOS, system for extra boost, 12:1 pistons and a posse rear end. It also has the sought-after butterfly flex window.
Right before her Cruising shoot on the weekend, she and her fiance changed out the rear axle because they had previously swapped it to accommodate other tires."But we ended up changing it because I like everything original and the same," she says.And that's the girly-girl part of Perez coming out again.
"Even when I was nine months pregnant, I was wearing heels," Perez says. "I like to go to the mall and get pedicures and do all of that. But on weekends, it's like, let's go get dirty."And Perez turns heads when she's buckled into her racing seat and rolls up in her sport pickup.
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