MUST LOVE GREASE!

When women arrive at Melissa Hannan’s Girls 'N' Gasoline workshops, they’re often reserved and more than a little nervous.

- Kasia De-Vydt-Jillings

But after learning to check and maintain the engine essentials, jumpstart a car, change a tyre and swap wiper blades and headlight bulbs, there’s a remarkable change in their confidence - and that is why mechanic Melissa does it.

“The feedback has been really amazing,” enthuses Melissa, who left school at 16 to start her mechanics apprenticeship and never looked back. “Women come in very quiet and leave blown away with the confidence to change a wheel, even if they’ve never done it before.