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I grew up with a guy named Fred Bieler (sp?) Everyone called him Crazy Freddy for obvious reasons. He built a bunch of hot cars and did custom bodywork.
Freddy drove like a wild man, and Freddy was an innovator - In the late sixties Freddy took
a '62 Dodge with an 413" automatic and mated it with a wrecked Freeport modified. He installed the narrowed Halibrand quick-change with a set of 6 something gears. He took 2 stock rims and cut and welded them together and stretched a 10 or 12 inch racing tire on them. As I remember the tire looked more like a tractor tire then anything else. It was up high in the back with these monster tires tucked underneath!
Blasts down Hempstead Tpke were amazing with the uncorrected speedometer reaching over
100 mph in first with those wild gears.

Freddy also cut the inside out of the top of the back seat from side to side. He installed amps and a speaker from a movie theater in the trunk facing through the rear seat fabric. He cut the center
out of the dashboard and installed a tv speaker up front. Pulling into Wetsons with the 8-track
cranked up always brought everyone outside!

Freddy was from Brooklyn, but grew up with his Uncle in Elmont. The last I saw of him was in
late '70 at the Twilight bar in Elmont. He arrived in a wheelchair with some sort of
2 cycle motorcycle motor propelling it. He took off down Meacham Ave and I went in the Army
shortly afterward. I never saw him again! I would love to know what else Crazy Freddy dreamed
up from there!