Sadly I was on the road when she had her horrible accident. so now I just wanted to say goodbye in my own way..
I have been in love with Jessi Combs since I ever first noticed her on Mythbusters and have been a dedicated fan ever since. Then I saw all the cool stuff she did and it was more amazing she was a girl after my own heart. She was doing things that many probably told her she could not do.
Not only that she was a speed junkie like me, not that kind of speed but the kind of speed that comes from a finely tuned muscle machine. And it just drives you to go faster and faster like you just can’t get enough of it. Hell she set an amazing land speed record it was only natural to want to go faster. Well at least in a world like ours, were the smell of gasoline and exhaust are the best in the world. The power of a raging beast just thumps in your chest when the car gets turned on..
And that sound that just makes your body shake then you feel all of it when you hit the throttle. I know exactly what she was feeling when she was behind the wheel because I have been there. But I have never done the amazing things she has done, and that is what makes her special. Her Heart and Personality with her never give up attitude not to mention her amazing smile that will always strike you as friendly Warm and loving…
As I close this out I want to say Thank You To Jessi for lighting the fine in me to succeed. There will never be another one like you..
Wikipedia…
Jessica Combs[1] (July 27, 1980 – August 27, 2019)[2] was an American professional racer, television personality, and metal fabricator. She set a women’s land speed class record (four wheels) in 2013 and broke her own record in 2016. She was known as “the fastest woman on four wheels”.[3]
She co-hosted the Spike TV show Xtreme 4×4 for more than 90 episodes from 2005 to 2009.[4] Other television shows she appeared on included Overhaulin’, Mythbusters, The List: 1001 Car Things To Do Before You Die, All Girls Garage,[5] and Science Channel‘s How to Build… Everything in 2016.[6]
Combs died in a crash of a jet-powered high-speed race car in southeastern Oregon while attempting to beat her own four-wheel land speed record.[7][8
Biography Wikipedia
Combs was born in Rockerville, South Dakota,[9] on July 27, 1980,[2] the daughter of Jamie Combs and Nina Darrington.[4][10][11] The family moved to Piedmont, South Dakota, when she was two years old.[9] She had three siblings, Kelly Combs, Austin Darrington, Danielle Theis, and two stepsiblings, Rebekah Hall and Arielle Hall. She graduated from Stevens High School in 1998.[9] A local publication in Rapid City reported that Combs’ great-grandmother was Nina DeBow, a jazz pianist who raced Stanley Steamers.[11]
In 2004, Combs graduated from WyoTech in the Collision & Refinishing Core Program, as well as the Street Rod Fabrication and Custom Fabrication and High Performance Powertrain programs, all at the top of her class (she was briefly seen as a student of WyoTech during the sixth episode of the first season of Overhaulin). Following her graduation, Combs’s first professional job came when the WyoTech marketing department hired her and another student to build a car from the ground up in six months to debut at the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association’s (SEMA) show.[4]
Combs died during a land speed record attempt as part of the North American Eagle Project on August 27, 2019, in the Alvord Desert, Oregon.[2][3][7][8]
Founder of the JRX Foundation and host of JRX Reviews. I grew up on big 70s cars my cousin more like an older brother to me had almost every Impala or Caprice from 1965 to 1989. Ever since I could remember getting Tony’s Hot Dogs on Park ave in Newark NJ in his 65 Impala SS. Now I have my big Impala to drive around in and I love every min of it.