{"id":66392,"date":"2025-06-30T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=66392"},"modified":"2025-06-30T01:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T01:07:20","slug":"famous-and-beautiful-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=66392","title":{"rendered":"Famous and beautiful,"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/classic.johanshal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-314-776x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Born in<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"345\">Barbara Roufs was born in 1944 in Southern California, right in the heart of America\u2019s booming car culture. Raised by Thelma and Wayne Riley, she grew up surrounded by speed and style\u2014her father a motorcycle enthusiast, her mother a beautician and church organist. This vibrant environment foreshadowed Barbara\u2019s future in the drag racing scene.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"347\" data-end=\"689\">In the early 1970s, Barbara became a beloved figure as a trophy girl during drag racing\u2019s golden era. With her flowing hair, go-go boots, and magnetic charm, she wasn\u2019t just part of the event\u2014she <em data-start=\"543\" data-end=\"548\">was<\/em> the event. Her energy lit up racetracks like the Orange County International Raceway, and in 1973, she was crowned PDA champion trophy girl.<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"moz-reader-block-img\" src=\"https:\/\/classic.johanshal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-314-776x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"776\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Born in<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"891\">Though her public image was dazzling, Barbara kept her personal life private. She had one daughter, Jet Dougherty, and faced silent struggles that led to her tragic death by suicide in 1991 at age 47.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"891\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66393\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-316-1-243x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-316-1-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-316-1.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"893\" data-end=\"1107\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Even decades later, Barbara\u2019s legacy lives on through vintage photos and the memories she left behind. She was more than a trophy girl\u2014she was a cultural icon, forever etched into the fabric of drag racing history.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"893\" data-end=\"1107\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=66367\">als0 read&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Barbara Roufs was born in 1944 in Southern California, right in the heart of America\u2019s booming car culture. Raised by Thelma and Wayne Riley, she&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66394,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66392\/revisions\/66394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}