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THAT’S A WRAP – This is the final shot that ran in the calendar.

Was this her first photo shoot? Or had Ashley Michelle Dailey stepped into an impromptu extra role in “Game of Thrones”

A DAILEY DOUBLE – Ashley Michelle Dailey said she loves bringing a modern pin-up look to her modeling. Put her next to a vintage car in a vintage wardrobe and you’ve got the perfect combination of look, style and speed.

Dailey, who goes by Ashley Michelle as her professional name, answered a call from the proverbial friend of a friend, who needed models for a clothing designer’s shoot. There was, however, a little plot/wardrobe twist to what Dailey would be modeling:

Steel-boned corsets. Straight out of your favorite Renaissance fair, Shakespearian play, or hit cable TV series. But now, it’s straight out of Dailey’s repertoire.

“I’ve developed this obsession with corsets and lingerie over the years,” she said. “I’ve done a lot of work with that over the years, as well as tattoos. The man I’m seeing is a piercer and manager of a tattoo shop and I’ve done a lot of promotional work for his shop.”

Well, that explains why the soon-to-turn 23-year-old was in the middle of a move from Winchester, near Temecula, to Waco, Texas – where her boyfriend’s parlor is – then to join her retired parents in Nashville. It explains the face of her rescue pit-bull, Kain, the tattoo of which adorns her left shoulder (“So when I’m traveling, he’s always with me…”). And it explains why Dailey is so versatile in front of the camera.

For her K&N shoot, where she posed with fellow Miss May Shawnna Sharmayne, Dailey went back in time – this time, to the pin-up days of the 1940s. No, Dailey didn’t appear on the nose cone of a B-17 Flying Fortress – although if you jumped in the wayback machine, she looked like she could have – but next to a hot-rod in a bustier at the Motte Car Museum in Menifee, California. It seamlessly meshed with Dailey’s comfort level in front of the camera, where her timeless look and passion for period outfits that bring that look out were on full, vivid display.

PUTTING THE ‘HOT’ IN ‘HOT-ROD’ – Ashley Michelle Dailey has been the subject of not only two tattoos, but an oil portrait painted by a friend of hers that appeared in an art show. She now owns the painting.

“I remember it was a really hot day and they had a lot of really cool cars,” she said. “They just said they would have a lot of different cars and to dress like a pin-up with a modern twist. I was absolutely comfortable with that.

“It took a while because there was a lot involved here. We shot a couple different cars, I changed outfits twice and we changed the cars a few times to get different angles and different views. There was a lot involved, but it was really fun. There was a lot of energy and never a moment where there wasn’t something going on. Everyone who was there had a job and they knew what they were doing. It was awesome.”

Speaking of awesome, that pretty much describes the amount of miles Dailey has traveled in her nearly 23 years. This move east is her seventh in the last two years, a mind-boggling number even for a product of two military parents who bounced back and forth between Northern and Southern California throughout much of Dailey’s youth.

After graduating a year early from high school in 2010, Dailey migrated to cosmetology school, where she learned soon after getting her license that doing other people’s hair wasn’t nearly as fun as doing her own for a shoot.

“I felt like it was the creative equivalent of sitting behind a desk and I didn’t want to sit behind a desk,” she said. “I didn’t want to be in a salon. I liked sales and marketing and the modeling, so I figured I’d go back to school and major in marketing.”

Meanwhile, Dailey was finding herself behind a camera more than behind a desk. Her Instagram page has prompted everything from more modeling gigs to an oil portrait of her painted by an artist friend who featured the painting in an art show before giving it to Dailey.

If that wasn’t enough Dailey, well, Kain the Pitbull isn’t the only family member who is a tattoo subject.

“I’ve had two tattoo artists use me as a subject for their clients,” she said. “It’s amazing every time to see what they do with their finished products.

“I love modeling. I love working with new people. When I’m actually shooting, I get into this zone and nothing else exists. I’m doing what I love. When I model and through my passion for this, I can inspire other people’s artwork and that’s amazing.”

Todd Gilliland won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Stateline Speedway in Idaho. He crossed the finish line .004 seconds ahead of Noah Gragson.

NASACAR K&N Pro Series West rookie Todd Gilliland broke a four-race drought by winning the Toyota NAPA 150 at Stateline Speedway in Idaho. Gilliland won the first two K&N Pro Series West races, but hasn't taken the checkered flag since April 2 at Kern County Raceway Park in California.

Todd Gilliland and his Bill McAnally Racing team won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Stateline Speedway in Idaho. Gilliland won his third race of the season.

Gilliland beat Noah Gragson by .004 seconds on a green-white-checkered flag finish. The race was extended to 166 laps and two green-white-checkered attempts before Gilliland inched past Gragson, both part of the NASCAR Next class of drivers, at the finish line.

"I thought I had him at the line, but I'm sure he thought he had me at the line, too," Gilliland said. "It's just really stressful moments there sitting there watching the flagman standing between the two cars, not sure which one to give the flag to. The second he turned to my car and gave me the flag, it was a great sense of relief, just a great ending to a great day."

Todd Gilliland won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Stateline Speedway in Idaho. He has won four NASCAR K&N Pro Series races in his career, three in the West Series and one in the East Series.

Gilliland started the race in seventh and didn't take the lead until the final lap of the race, lap 166. He probably didn't lead the race for more than a second, but the fraction of a second at the finish line was all he needed to win.

"It was great racing with Noah," Gilliland said. "Coming from the back there was kind of tough. Everyone on my team kept me calm. Get every car one by one. If they give it to you, take it."

The 16-year-old Gilliland won his third K&N Pro Series race of the season and the fourth K&N Pro Series race of his career.

"To be in a position to be on the outside there the last restart, we just tried to hang tough on the outside," Gilliland. "We knew it was probably going to come down to something like that where you're racing to the line pretty much."

Todd Gilliland led one lap in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Stateline Speedway in Idaho. The Toyota NAPA 150 was extended to 166 laps and two green-white-checkered flag finishes.

Gragson led for 26 laps on the tiny quarter-mile track. He took the lead from Ryan Partridge on lap 140, 10 laps from the scheduled end of the race. He was in the lead for both green-white-checkered flag restarts.

"I was the leader there coming to the green-white-checkered," Gragson said. "I felt like I was a little better on the bottom. I knew the top side, they could roll pretty good off the corner and get good drive by. I felt like my car was working better on the bottom. That was a crazy race there at the end. Unbelievable night. So close to being in Victory Lane. Can't complain with second. Great points day."

Noah Gragson was the runner-up in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Stateline Speedway in Idaho. He led 26 laps in the race.

Chris Eggleston won the pole and led the most laps in the race, 73. Eggleston and Gracin Raz battled for the lead from laps 74 to 90. Eggleston crossed the finish line in third place.

"It's extremely hard to swallow," Eggleston said. "You don't get cars that drive that good that often. Felt like we did a halfway decent job of getting back up way through the field without running into anybody. Keep our heads high, keep digging and we go to Iowa."

Raz was fourth, followed by Julia Landauer in fifth.

Partridge was able to maintain his lead in the K&N Pro Series West standings with 291 points. He was 10th in the race at Stateline Speedway. Eggleston, the reigning K&N Pro Series West champion, is second in the standings, 13 points behind Partridge.

The next K&N Pro Series race is at Iowa Speedway on July 29. The drivers and teams from the K&N Pro Series West and East will be at Iowa Speedway for the Casey's General Store 150.