Meet Annie Koehler. She’s a 79-year-old grandma with a 1957 Cadillac and a passion for teaching the young kids how burnouts are done.
Some people take up Bingo or knitting in retirement; Annie the Hot Rod Granny has discovered the thrills of burning rubber. She’s relatively new to the car hobby, but “hooked” after winning a few burnout contests during a 4,200-mile road trip to California and back. Along the way she entered competitions, instantly gaining loads of fans at the International Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois, as well as the Eville Shindig in Evansville, Indiana.
The engine is a big-block Chevy V8 that’s been bored out to 496 cubic inches. There’s no turbo or supercharger—just old-school, naturally aspirated power.
