OLD DOVER M/C RACER PASSES

I WAS THINKING ABOUT A STAMFORD CT OLD SCHOOL HISTORICAL MOMENT THAT HAPPENED WAY BACK IN 1959 A MOVIE WAS MADE CALLED “THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH ” ANYBODY REMEMBER THIS ? IT FEATURED THE COUNTRY DINER ON HIGH RIDGE NEXT TO THE “FLYING A STATION” REMEMBER THESE ? THIS IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO WHERE THE BLACK ROAD CAR CLUB MONDAY NITE CRUISES ARE NOW SOME 50 YEARS LATER. 😯 ANYWAY IN THE OPENING SCENES OF THE MOVIE WERE SHOT AT WEST BEACH THE CHARTER OAKS M/C CLUB FROM RIVERSIDE CT BACK THEN WERE FEATURED ALONG WITH THE BEACH BUMS OF THAT ERA. THE STAR / FILL IN GUY OR LEADER OF THE M/C GANG WAS TO RIDE INTO THE BEACH WITH A PACK OF MOTORCYCLES BEHIND HIM . OUR GOOD FRIEND “MOPPY” HAD ONE BUILT UP BAD SPORTSTER AND HE / THE LEADER WAS OFFERED TO RIDE IT . I REMEMBER HEARING THAT WHEN HE WENT INTO THE PARKING LOT HE TOOK A HANDFUL OF THROTTLE AND LOST IT OR GOT SCARED AND LET OFF THE GAS TOO SOON AND CAUSE A PILEUP OF BIKES BEHIND HIM . 😳 YOU JUST GOTTA LUV IT . IF THAT MOVIE WAS MADE OR CAME OUT IN 1959 THEN IT WAS 2 YEARS BEFORE DOVER DRAGSTRIP EVEN OPENED UP . FASTLANE 😎 {SIDE NOTE} GEORGE MOPPY BUCHANNAN WAS ALSO A ORIGINAL BLACK ROAD CAR CLUB MEMBER HERE IN STAMFORD TOO

GREAT JOB DINO 😀 . THIS WAS JUST LIKE GOING BACK TO THE STARLITE DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATER DOWN SHIPPAN AVE THIS MORNING . MOPPY WAS THE LITTLE GUY WITH THE BLACK BERET AND DARK SUNGLASSES ON IN THE M/C CLUB SCENE ON THE BEACH . THE LIFE GUARD WHO BROKE UP THE FIGHT IN THE END WAS TONY ALTAMAURO WHO WAS A PROTEGE OF VINCE MCMAHON’S FATHER WHO STARTED THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION W.W.F. WITH GUYS LIKE GORRILLA MONSOON AND ALL THOSE OLD SCHOOL WESTILING GUYS BACK THEN . TONYS FAMILY WERE THE OWNERS OF THE FAMOUS “GOOD GUYS DRIVE IN” FIRST HAMBUGER AND HOT DOG PLACE DOWN ON SHIPPAN AVE I REMEMBER BACK THEN . THIS WAS ON THE WAY TO THE ENTRANCE OF WEST BEACH WHERE THIS FILM WAS SHOT . TONY WAS A REAL LIFEGUARD TOO. I SAW THE GAS PRICES AT .22 CENTS IN THE CITIES SERVICE STATION . THOUGHT THIS WAS A FLYING A STATION OOPPPS SORRY ? THE OLD TOWN HALL ON ATLANTIC ST WERE THE PAPER BOY IS . AND ITS STILL THERE UNDER RECONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW . K’S MARKET IS STILL THERE ON HIGH RIDGE. VITTIS BAR . A SMALL PART OF THAT LARGE PAVILLION WHERE THE BANDS PLAYING UNDER IS STILL THERE AND THE FAMOUS ROCK WALK OUT AREA ON CUMMING’S BEACH ACROSS FROM WEST BEACH IN THE MOVIE WHERE THE MONSTER FIRST APPEARED. LOOKING AT THE POLICE CARS I SEE THEY ARE NOT 59 CARS LOOKS LIKE 1960 CHEVYS SO MAYBE THIS MOVIE WAS MADE IN 1960 AND AROUND 1961 OR 1962 WHEN IT WAS FIRST RELEASED NOT 1959 . FASTLANE . SO THANKS FOR THE TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE THIS MORNING DINO YOU DA MAN ! 😎

YUP DINO . YOU CAN NOW SEE THAT THOSE OLD STAMFORD COP CARS WERE NOT ANY EARLIER THEN 1960 MODELS OR OLDER THAN 1964 CHEVY BISCAYNE’S GOOD JOB 😉 FASTLANE . SO I WAS JUST GETTING READY TO TURN 9 YEARS OLD THE YEAR WHEN THIS CLASSIC MONSTER MASH BEACH PARTY HOT ROD BIKER FLICK WAS RELEASED BACK THEN . 😎

HEY GUY’S. I GOT SOME NAMES AFTER SENDING THIS OLD MOVIE OUT TO A FEW GUYS FROM AROUND HERE . FLOYD KEELER WAS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE RIVERSIDE CHARTER OAKS M/C AND IN THERE . ROGER MOE / FRANK CANDIDO / BILLY MUHA / JIMMY LABOZA / AND A GUY NAMED REX RECORDS SR. WHO WAS A WELL KNOWN STOCK CAR RACER FROM AROUND HERE TOO. FASTLANE 😀 I ALSO FOUND OUT THERE WAS A CAR CLUB NAMED THE RIDGE RUNNERS FROM STAMFORD BESIDES THE BLACK ROAD CAR CLUB FROM HERE IN STAMFORD CT . 😎

Chris,
You bring back lot’s of memories and names from the old days in Stamford. Thank you for bringing me back down memorie lane. I was 12 in 1959 and my memorie tell’s me that the first Hotdog/Hamburger eatery on Shippan Ave. was TONY’s followed by Joan’s and then Goodguys.
My brother tells me you are moving south. Where and when ? I’m near Charleston S.C.

Fred Rodriguez
Staying Alive Racing

hi fred no i think your wrong . i remember riding down to shippan ave on my bicycle between 1965 and 1970 the good guys was the first . when they closed tonys drive-in opened up next door. and then al candito and joanne opend up joannes resturant across from the candy kicthen first. then over to kiddy land’s property after the starlite drive-in closed up. then there was the continental resturant gerties place next to the old tack wagon. then the greek george bratsenis made tonys drive-in georgios in the mid 70s .do you remember any of these others now ? at times seemed like i lived down there at all of those places for over 20 years eating at each and every one of them and then going and hanging out over at cummings beach with the guys and gals every summer. as far as my house the potential home buyer’s backed out in late september. so i am going to relist it this spring and if it does finally sell i can decide where i want to move to . it will be down south somewhere in the western n.c. or eastern tennssee area .near the great smokey mountains region. chris fastlane 😎