I Love a True Story (1 Viewer)

[kountryboy2]

I don't think any of them could hold a candle to Billy Stepp.

 

[shoe]

You have no idea how Freddy was. Baddest guy their was.

 

[Cliff]

I'm glad he never hurt you or your family.

 

[scratch]

I recall seeing a picture of the guy kneeling along side his flopper taken in the early seventies,and aside from his menacing look I noticed his shoes. Those shoes! Any one would wear those was a definate bad ass.

 

[Notch1320]

There's a million Freddy stories out there and all of them are true. For some weird reason Freddy & I got along well and I had a lot of fun with the dude. Here's a Freddy story that not many people know and Bob Gerdes (Circus Custom Paint) and Glenn Weisgerber (Glenn Designs) can back me up on this.

Circus Custom Paint was sort of a NJ hangout for the touring Funny Car guys. A bunch of guys were hanging out, drinking beer, bullshitting & watching Glenn letter Freddy's latest Funny Car. Freddy was, how do I say it, well-endowed in the man parts, he could have been a porn star.

Anyway, Freddy shows up and sneaks up behind Glenn who was sitting on a milk carton doing the tail lights, he whips out his "unit" and lays it on Glenn's shoulder, Glenn didn't know what was on him so he reached over to get it off him and when he saw what it was that he touched he freaked out. He screamed, and ran out of the shop. Glenn didn't think it was funny but everybody else in the shop was laughing their asses off. After a while Glenn calmed down, came back in and started packing up his stuff getting ready to leave, Freddy asked him when he was coming back to finish his car. Glenn replied "Never" and Freddy reached into his pocket and pulls out a wad of bills and asks if Glenn if he could change his mind and finish the car. After some negotiation in the corner Glenn relented and went back to work knowing that he got paid to be the brunt of the joke.

This happened almost 50 years ago and I still remember it like was yesterday...

 

[Jim]

I don't think that's a story we'll ever hear on FOX <G>

Maybe the next installment will cover The Snake.

There's a million Freddy stories out there and all of them are true. For some weird reason Freddy & I got along well and I had a lot of fun with the dude. Here's a Freddy story that not many people know and Bob Gerdes (Circus Custom Paint) and Glenn Weisgerber (Glenn Designs) can back me up on this.

Circus Custom Paint was sort of a NJ hangout for the touring Funny Car guys. A bunch of guys were hanging out, drinking beer, bullshitting & watching Glenn letter Freddy's latest Funny Car. Freddy was, how do I say it, well-endowed in the man parts, he could have been a porn star.

Anyway, Freddy shows up and sneaks up behind Glenn who was sitting on a milk carton doing the tail lights, he whips out his "unit" and lays it on Glenn's shoulder, Glenn didn't know what was on him so he reached over to get it off him and when he saw what it was that he touched he freaked out. He screamed, and ran out of the shop. Glenn didn't think it was funny but everybody else in the shop was laughing their asses off. After a while Glenn calmed down, came back in and started packing up his stuff getting ready to leave, Freddy asked him when he was coming back to finish his car. Glenn replied "Never" and Freddy reached into his pocket and pulls out a wad of bills and asks if Glenn if he could change his mind and finish the car. After some negotiation in the corner Glenn relented and went back to work knowing that he got paid to be the brunt of the joke.

This happened almost 50 years ago and I still remember it like was yesterday...

 

[Notch1320]

One more thing I just remembered about Freddy. He used to steal specific make & model cars on demand for his clients. The long term parking lot at Newark airport was his playground. There were quite a few of them converted to race cars and I know a B/MP car that used to run at Englishtown that was sourced from Freddy.

 

[twostep]

I've been around drag racing for over 50 years and believe it or not, I've never heard de name. ( ooh, that was bad, wasn't it? )

Seriously, I thought this was some kind of April Fool's parody in October - but damned if it ain't the truth. I'll have to get that book now.