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Judy Lilly, and her eventual "boss wrench", Dennis Maurer, were the Queen and King of the NHRA Super Stocks at Colorado drag strips in the 1960's driving their Hemi-powered Plymouths.

If Judy lilly was in attendance in the Super/Stock pits at a Colorado drag strip, "SHE" was the favorite to win, since she rarely lost a race. Judy Lilly raced at local Colorado events, at NHRA Division-5 points meets, the CDR High Altitude Nationals, the Bandimere Mile High Nationals, and at NHRA National events around the country.

Over the years, she was the Division-5 Super Stock champion many times, and also won numerous NHRA national events, including the Winternationals and Summernationals. I've no doubt ommitted lots of other accomplishments.

In 2005, Judy Lilly was inducted into the Colorado Motorsports Hall of Fame. Very fitting. Now lets have a look at some of the cars that Judy Lilly drove over the years...

Just before the 2008 NHRA Finals at the Mopar Mile High Nationals at Bandimere Speedway, SpeedFreaks' Kenny Sargent and Mopar's Sunil Lahoti give the crowd a taste of the new Dodge Challenger Drag Race Package Car powered by Mopar. "Big Daddy" Don Garlits, in the white, and "Miss Mighty Mopar" Judy Lilly, in the liquid metal, light'em up.In 1967, Judy Lilly teamed with Dennis Maurer to field a light-yellow 1967 Plymouth Hemi-Belvedere coupe in NHRA Super/Stock (SS/B). By the way, the '67 Hemi Belvedere Coupe was unbelievably rare, since Plymouth only made a couple of them. If you'll recall, Plymouth installed the Hemi engine mostly in the 2-door hardtop GTX body style and a few R023 factory race package Belvederes. The Lilly Belvedere was an odd car in that it was a 2-door sedan body style, and yet it seemed to have all of the equipment of the 1967 RO23 factory Hemi race-package cars, including the hood scoop from the R023 package....look at the photo. I never did quite understand the pedigree of this car. Why NHRA let the car race in this configuration in the SS/B class is also one of those unanswerable questions. NHRA always had a unique point-of-view on what constituted "stock" or "legal".

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