You want to hear a Freddy DeName story? Here ya go: During my tenure at Englishtown I got to know Freddy pretty good, I was aware who he was and what he did but to me he was just another racer. One of Freddy's "Hobbies" was stealing cars, specializing in VW Bugs. My sister blew the engine in her VW convertible and I asked Freddy if he had a spare engine laying around, told me he'd get back to me. He called me a few days later and said he had what I needed. At the time I lived in a town that was right on the Jersey Central commuter train line to NYC, he told me to meet his guy in the parking lot at the train station so I grabbed a buddy with a pick-up to meet the guy and get the engine. We're sitting in the truck waiting and a guy pulls up in an almost new VW, he says are you Berserko Bob? I say yeah so he parked the VW, handed me the keys and said here ya go, just destroy the license plates, Freddy gave me the whole car! The guy hops on a train back to NYC and I made the short drive home and parked it in my garage. With the help of a few friends we yanked the engine out of the car and I sold the carcass to a friend's junkyard who knew what the deal was he parted out the car for parts and made the chassis into a sand buggy. My sister was back on the road two days later thanks to Freddy.
There's a million Freddy stories and they're all true, ah the 70s...
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