[...] on Monday, when the winner of the queen title attended the fair's large-car demolition derby in her Sunday-best dress and glittering tiara, Brittany wore a T-shirt covered in radiator grease and blue jeans patched with duct tape. Tiny, red-haired, 18-year-old Brittany -- "if you put her in a tall pair of shoes, she might be 5-foot," her dad always says -- was known at Wapahani High School as the girl who showed up to prom in a huge pickup splattered with mud.