DAYTONA BEACH – A woman who won a court fight over her right to bare her breasts in public planned to protest topless Saturday at a city auditorium.

Elizabeth Book planned to stage the protest at the Peabody Auditorium next to three statues of women nude from the waist up. The protest coincides with a weekend of Pepsi 400 races and Fourth of July celebrations.

“I will be as top-free as the statues,” Book said in an e-mail to the nudists and naturalists who have supported her cause. “This is not over until Daytona is forced to recognize the unconstitutionality of their ordinances and statutes aimed at the American woman’s breasts.”

Daytona Beach says Book’s victory will be appealed.

Volusia County Judge David Beck ruled that Book was within her rights when she bared her breasts as part of a political protest during Bike Week in March 2004. The city’s anti- nudity ordinance allows an exemption for nudity that is part of a political protest or other constitutionally protected issue, Beck said, throwing out her arrest and fine for $253.