Support Women in Trades, Help Bogi Lateiner from All Girls Garage!

Co-host of All Women Garage and owner and founder of Woman Gang Garage Bogi Lateiner is inquiring for your assistance! In an effort to encourage women to study the automotive trades, Bogi has partnered up with vehicle painter Connie Manjavinos, Volvo, and BASF for the third Woman Gang Garage build—the Iron Maven. The place do you arrive in? Bogi and the Woman Gang Garage crew want you to pick the coloration of the 1961 Volvo PV544 restomod they are creating for SEMA Demonstrate 2022. 

The Female Gang Garage build celebrates Volvo’s earlier and upcoming by combining the classic looks of the 1961 PV544 entire body with the functioning equipment and powertrain from a 2021 Volvo S60 T8 Recharge Polestar Engineered sedan. That’s 415 horsepower of hybrid fury going into the 3rd and most thorough motor vehicle create from Girl Gang Garage to date, with around 150 ladies from all around the planet participating in the create. 

With the support of automobile painter and founder of Girls Guiding the Gun Connie Manjavinos and BASF, Bogi and the Girl Gang Garage have created three paint colours for voters to pick out from that all pay back homage to the record of Volvo and look to the Swedish automaker’s upcoming. The colour alternatives are:

To vote for your favourite color in the Iron Maven Color Contest, go to GirlGangGarage.com. As soon as the color is chosen, all development posts on social media of the Iron Maven Volvo PV544 will be exclusively in black and white, until finally the Volvo restomod is unveiled on November 1, 2022 at the Las Vegas Conference Middle, in advance of SEMA Demonstrate 2022. Voting closes in early August, test out the YouTube Video clip on Bogi’s Garage to see the a few color alternatives when you continue to have time. 

“This one of a kind and ambitious task is a celebration of previous, current and potential,” mentioned Bogi Lateiner. “The Iron Maven celebrates Volvo’s heritage whilst integrating its existing technology, celebrates girls in trades although welcoming new women into the fold, and honors the heritage of car or truck creating whilst integrating fashionable technology these as 3D printing. It’s been a pleasure leading this task that indicates so a great deal for so numerous. “

Started out in 2021 with a barn uncover PV544 from Phoenix, Ariz., the Iron Maven is part of Volvo’s more substantial initiative to get in touch with notice to the will need for additional women in the proficient automotive trades and recruit feminine assistance technicians into its retail provider community. With aid from the Volvo Vehicles Specialized Aid crew, the Lady Gang Garage crew will combine the Push-E drivetrain, Polestar Engineered suspension, and Sensus infotainment process from the S60 into the modest and analogue overall body of the PV544. Bogi and her all-feminine create group will hire traditional hand-fabrication procedures as effectively as making use of 3D printed parts to convey collectively the ahead-looking things and typical essence of the Iron Maven.

Follow along with the make on Bogi and Connie’s social media platforms and come across out if the shade you voted for was picked out!