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Boozefighters Motorcycle Club

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THE ORIGINAL "WILDONES"

EST

1946

“FREEWAY”

Pardon my French but polly wally beang bang we got dang good press again. The Freeway magazine is the top leading biker rag in Europe (such as Easyriders in the USA). This is the French issue.

Boozefighters are featured at the bottom of the cover page and an additional twelve pages inside. I never took French language in school so I’ll have to resort to an old WWII trick in order to interpret. A couple of shoots of Hennessy’s Cognac should help make the story much more clear. And it’s clear the French are proud that we Boozefighters adapted their imported three star cognac (3 stars were on the label in the 1940’s) as our back patch icon logo. Sooo I will now explain what the story says…sort’a!

Page 4 gives a brief recap of how the Boozefighters came together as vets of WWII. They formed a motorcycle club and gained infamous notoriety in Hollister July 1947. A “legende d’ Hollister and they return for the anniversaire.” (60^{th
year)}

^{Pages 82 thru 87 pretty well follows our history stories on this website
(Archives) and our book “THE ORIGINAL WILD ONES.”

Pages 88 thru 92 explains how ten guys and two gals from Methamis, France
became interested in the history of our club. `Marko’ is their leader and
appreciates how the American 82nd Airborne liberated their part of France
from the Nazi’s. He started collecting military historical items at age 11
and now has a museum in the up-stairs area over his bar.}

^{Ironically now his museum includes patches,
pictures, and replicas of numerous metals of honor my wife’s brother Sgt
Billy Williamson contributed. He was with that 82nd battle group and
communicated with Marko about it (before Bill passed away).}

^{After researching our website and other
historical information about our club Marko named his bar the “Boozefighters
revenge,” in which means a coming together in French.}

^{The story goes on to explain how Marko
contacted JQ through the website and that eventually led to their becoming
the Boozefighters Tribute Group (2004) and then in 2005 were allowed to be
our first European Prospect Chapter. They met Original BF’er Vern Autrey in
Fort Worth at the Fall National and he proclaimed them “GOOD GUYS”!}

^{Also explained is how `Hacker’
from a California chapter made a couple of visits to France to check them
out and vouched for them at the National in 2006. They were voted in as
Chapter 74 and received their full patches.
On the last page it outlines
their types of motorcycles (mostly old Shovelheads, Panheads and such) plus
their two Boozettes (Zaza and Coco) are featured. They are truly some neat
ladies and as a CH 74 requirement…ride their on motorcycles.
Thanks to Charlie Lecach for
doing this story in the Freeway magazine. You did a superb job.
JQ `HISTORY’}