UPPER DARBY, PENNSYLVANIA — A new business is opening near Philadelphia that will give women the know-how to work on their cars - and do it with style. The garage doors were officially raised Friday ...

This piece originally aired June 19, 2015. Patrice Banks knows what she's doing under the hood. She shares that knowledge -- for free -- at monthly clinics geared toward women. "There are certain ...

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Girls Auto Clinic (GAC) was founded in 2013 by Patrice Banks (Girls Auto Club Facebook) During the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the hands-on industry saw a massive increase in women emerging into auto ...

Patrice Banks is now a mechanic, and the owner of a successful auto clinic, but there was a time when she avoided taking her own car in for routine maintenance. "I was afraid I was going to be taken ...

Wearing a backwards red ball cap, skinny jeans and high-heel boots, Patrice Banks is doing her thing at the Girls Auto Clinic in the Philadelphia area. “That vroom, vroom noise you hear at a shop is ...