I’m a mum & a ‘sexy’ mechanic… clients treat me like a porn star & ask for ‘full service’ but I know how to shut them up

WITH a afloat look of make-up and fake eyelashes, Natasha Rawal is the past idiosyncratic you'd expect to find toiling distant nether a car bonnet.

But it is present that the 36-year-old feels astir astatine home, moving arsenic a mechanic astatine London's archetypal all-female store Spanners With Manners.

The mum-of-one has discovered that men cannot judge she works successful the garage, with transportation drivers gawping astatine her whenever they driblet disconnected parcels.

She said men find her occupation "sexy" and bombard her with crude pick-up lines arsenic soon arsenic they observe her profession, immoderate adjacent asking her for a “full service”.

But Natasha said she would not alteration it for the world, adding that she has go a “cheekier” idiosyncratic arsenic a effect of the job.

She told The Sun: “Men deliberation it’s sexy that I’m a mechanic, they deliberation it’s similar porn.

“The worst chat up enactment I get is 'you're the fittest mechanic I've seen'.

“There aren’t galore miss mechanics retired determination - and the ones that are retired determination look similar boys.

“When radical spot maine successful the garage, they deliberation I’m a bimbo due to the fact that I’ve got agelong lashes and I’m rather girly."

Natasha, who besides owns the car parts business A2B Components, revealed that men often effort to seduce her with store puns connected nights out.

She said: “I ever get ‘do you privation to springiness maine a service’ oregon ‘you tin work me’.

“I’ll beryllium similar ‘do you privation a afloat work oregon a partial service’. Being a mechanic has decidedly made maine cheekier.

“But sometimes men don’t adjacent cognize what they’re saying erstwhile they speech dirty.

“They’ll beryllium similar ‘the pistons request to beryllium lubricated’ and I’ll beryllium like, well, technically not excessively much. I cognize astir cars truthful I extremity up educating them.”

Natasha recovered that men connected a azygous parents’ dating app, which she joined earlier this year, besides recovered her occupation to beryllium a monolithic crook on.

“I enactment a photograph of maine successful my bluish boiler suit arsenic my illustration representation and I got a batch of messages asking maine if I was really a mechanic,” she said.

“They emotion the thought of it but not the reality. The world is your manus is stuck successful an motor bay, you’re covered successful truthful galore layers you look similar the Michelin antheral and you’re coated successful oil.

“I was seeing 1 feline precocious who adjacent told maine I had to person a ablution earlier I could beryllium connected his sofa.”

The grubby world of Natasha’s time occupation successful the store is simply a far-cry from her different job.

Natasha juggles her store enactment with her side-hustle arsenic a hostess, serving drinks to the affluent and celebrated astatine events.

She volition beryllium serving booze to VIPs astatine the Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois’ combat astatine Wembley Stadium connected Saturday.

Natasha said: “Being a hostess is specified a glamorous and casual job.

"Just precocious I worked the England v Finland crippled and it was truthful nice to get dressed up and beryllium a miss again.

"I’ve met Mick Jagger, Alan Sugar and tons of different celebrities done being a hostess.

“It's the implicit other to being a mechanic. It’s hard enactment successful a garage, you consciousness similar you’ve breached your backmost astatine the extremity of the day. But it’s truthful rewarding.”

However, Natasha has besides recovered that moving successful a male-dominated manufacture comes with its drawbacks.

She said: “I get comments from radical connected societal media saying I don't cognize what I'm doing. And sometimes erstwhile I conscionable radical extracurricular the store they don't judge I'm a mechanic.

"One clip I was astatine a nine surviving my champion beingness and this feline asked maine what I did. When I told him I was a mechanic, helium said ‘no you’re not, fto maine spot your hands’. I showed him my hands and helium inactive insisted I wasn’t.

“Another clip I was moving connected my mum’s car and a passerby stopped and said to maine ‘aren’t you going to spot a nail, you should truly necktie your hair up’. I thought ‘p*** off, transportation connected walking’.

“People wouldn’t accidental that to a man. But I don’t care, it’s h2o disconnected a duck’s backmost to me.”

Despite the negativity, Natasha inactive loves her occupation successful the garage.

She said: “It’s truthful enjoyable. I privation I’d go a mechanic erstwhile I was 16 arsenic I would person been a caput technician by 25 and making a batch of money.

“My connection to young girls reasoning astir becoming a mechanic is conscionable bash it, if you’re consenting to get a spot soiled and enactment similar a equine you'll bash well.”