El Dorado County (Placerville)
As a teenager, Judge Vicki Ashworth knew more about cars than schoolmates a few grades above her who were already taking their driver's license tests.
"I wouldn't say I knew how to resurface heads or anything like that, but I knew how to change brakes, tires," she said.
That's because her father not only built race car engines for a living, he was a racer in the National Hot Rod Associat... (continued)