Original Boozefighter slams new clones

the History channel had a program on Sunday night, History of the
Motorcycle, that has been on a few times before. The program included
some interviews with original members of the Boozefighters, the folks in
Hollister, CA in 1947 who were the models for the Wild Ones movie with
Brando and the infamous Life magazine article of that era tha created
the outlaw image, etc.

I hadn't really noticed this part of the interview previously, but one
of the original Boozefighters put a pretty good slam on the clone
Boozefighter club in Ft. Worth, saying that the new group wasn't living
up to the agreement that let them use the name and the original folks
weren't too happy about things with the new group.

Thought it interesting and if anyone watches the History channel, the
program will likely be run again and to watch for that part of the show.

 

I'll have to try to catch that. I read my motorcycle mags fairly
regularly and one of the things that one of the columnists was just
complaining about is how tv only shows one side of biking. I'd like
to catch that history show about motorcycles, I bet it would be
interesting.


--Fullstate

Me and Mah 'Priller!

 

newp. Boozefighters was one of the originals, just post WW2. they
really weren't a 1% outfit either, they were one of the original groups
of ex-GIs that formed a club. the 1% thing came later and I don't
think I would put the Boozefighters in that category. the Hollister
riot scene was totally fabricated by the media (imagine that). check
the History channel scheduling and catch the program, it's worth the
watching, about 2 hours long with lots of good history to it that covers
many different aspects of m/c, not a fluff piece like some of the other
programs they will do on bikes.

 

sure do, and it wasn't 'merkin either. They knew what the real
performance bikes were back then, just as folks do now.

that same manufacturer forced the moco to come up with the sportster
because the big twins were such dogs in comparison and even then the
sportster wasn't up to the task.

 

Brando rode a Triumph as I recall, but I don't recall what Lee
Marvin was riding. They all probably had sound tracks of
Harleys though. I think Marvin might have been riding a Harley.
Maybe a 45 incher, with a suicide clutch.<g>

I recall a recent viewing of a Hawaii 5-0 series, where a young
girl(Linda Perl(sp?)) was riding a Yamaha 100 twin. She was
mostly on LSD, but you could see long shots of the bike. How-
ever, the sound track was that of a much larger 4-stroke twin.

Gary

 

Booze Fighters are still around. More than one rider's funeral I've been
to has had members in colors attending.

 

Triumph of course.