If I wasn't surfing in 1963 and 1964 my life was about racing cars on the street with my friend's cars sort of like American Graffiti then
I think George Lucas had the same kind of experience I had in Glendale, Burbank and cruising the Strip in Hollywood which was Sunset Blvd. and Hollywood Blvd on Friday or Saturday nights then and Bob's Big Boy which was a racers hangout especially because it was a drive in and indoor restaurant then. They always had the coolest street racer cars then there. Sort of like this movie.
I had short hair until around 1969 too in college so I could easily identify with the Ron Howard Character then because I always had a girlfriend from age 15 to 25 when I finally got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. Getting married was one of the best things to help me grow up by the way which was good for me at the time to move on with my life. I was 15 in 1963 in Glendale and a sophomore at Glendale High school that fall of 1963.
My parents wouldn't let me buy a stick shift with a Hurst shifter for racing slicks which were super wide rear tires with no treads on then specially designed for traction while burning rubber so instead I bought a 1956 Ford Station wagon I called my Surf Wagon. However, my best friend then was always building up the engine in a 1956, 1957 or 1958 Chevy and hopping up the engine to be powerful enough to burn rubber all the way down the street with a Hurst shifter manual shift for racing then. However, I wasn't a racer but my best friend was. I was lucky not to be injured or killed in these races also. So, many of us survived these extreme experiences like myself and others.
A group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies.
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On
the last day of summer vacation in 1962, friends Curt (Richard
Dreyfuss), Steve (Ronny Howard), Terry (Charles Martin Smith) and John
(Paul Le Mat) cruise the streets of small-town California while a
mysterious disc jockey (Wolfman Jack) spins classic rock'n'roll tunes.
It's the last night before… MORE
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