When she wasn’t making music, Case liked to work on car engines — she had a Ford Falcon, an AMC Rambler, a Buick Wildcat, and a half-brown, half-silver GMC Rally STX 6.2 diesel tour van ...

“We were all kind of shocked she could sing so well,” Newman remembered. He met Case in the tight-knit Vancouver indie music scene in the mid-90s, when she was playing drums in the punk trio Maow.