The Gypsy Coeds made friends everywhere with their Model T Ford

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What a sight it must have been in 1934, 6 women driving around in a silver Model T Ford and making long summer trips. The Gypsy Coeds is what they called themselves. 20 women who were touring for 8 summers long in the same car, a 1926 Model T Ford known as the Silver Streak. Can you only imagine the amount of fun they had?!

Darlene, who owned the car, had a beauty parlour in the basement of her parent's home and she began organizing summer vacations, very shortly after she got her first car. The women did a lot of camping and loved jitterbugging (yes, you know PreWarDancing) in dance halls. Darlene had three rules: No drinking, no smoking, and everyone goes home together at the end of the night.

As one might expect, everywhere they arrived they can count on massive attention and they made friends everywhere.

If the car broke down or got a flat, the women fixed it themselves. When it needed a new top, Darlene sewed a new one out of awning remnants. The patchwork top reminded the women of a Gypsy wagon and they dubbed themselves The Gypsy Coeds.

A list of all summer escapades is written on the car

Darlene didn't want a black car, so she painted it silver. They marked the car with cherry red slogans, pencilled autographs, and a list of all the summer escapades:... '35, Wisconsin; '36, Michigan; '37, Canada to see the Dionne quintuplets; '38 they met Henry Ford; '39, the New York World's Fair; '40, San Francisco Golden Gate Exposition; '41 was a question mark. It was put on in 1940 but they did go on a '41 trip, '42 was the last trip.

The car was sold but always retained in its 'Gypsy' condition. The son of one of the ladies was able to buy the car back and is still using it today.

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