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Mopars of the Restored Rusty Relics at the Bergenfield (NJ) Memorial Day Parade, 2024
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Hi this is Dave from Motels. I'm just going to talk a little through this
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parade mostly because we had a soundtrack behind us through the parade
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which kept on playing copyrighted music from Whitney Houston and a guy who does
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Chevy commercials so YouTube won't really let us have that soundtrack on
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the air so to speak. So what you're seeing right now is an eight-time speed
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up of the Bergenfield New Jersey Memorial Day Parade and right now we're
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just going up the hill. The parade hasn't really started well. For us the parade
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hasn't started yet but we're going through the staging area. A lot of
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different groups here so it's taken us a while to clear out. So Tom is in front of
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us with that Dodge Daytona and the flickering brakes is because it's
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multiplied by eight times so every time he taps the brakes it looks like a
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little flicker. So now we're making left turn by the school and we're off on
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prospect. Parades are a fun thing to do if you have a classic car and a local
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car club to go with. I think most people don't really take full advantage. Some of
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our members are more common at parades than others and everybody likes you
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including the police officers as you see here. People are waving, people are
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cheering, people ask you about your car through the open window. It's a lot of
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fun. I really don't see why people with classic cars don't do it at least once a
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year. So in front of us is Tom and his Dodge Daytona. That's an 80s car which is
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old enough to be a classic at this point and in front of Tom is a King Midget and
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that's a fun little 1965 car. Originally came with a one-cylinder engine but the
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owner of this one has hopped it up. It's now got a two-cylinder engine so it's
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more powerful but he still gets 50 miles per gallon. So we're going past the high
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school now. We'll stop and go. I try to even things out. I also try to take
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advantage of being in the parade and go through as many red lights as I can and
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as you can see I try to go through on the middle of the street crossing the
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double yellow because hey when else do you get to do it. You can also see my
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turn signals flickering from time to time. That's when I put on my hazard
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flashers just for fun. So a pretty good crowd. Now it was raining before and
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after the parade so we didn't get as many people as we usually get. Normally
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there's a lot of crowds on the street during these parades especially in
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Bergenfield. They have twice a year St. Patrick's Day and Memorial Day and when
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we put the cars away we'll be taking them back out again on July 4th for the
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July 4th parade. So there's a couple of towns locally that we use those parades
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So I'm recording this although you see that there's two Mopars in it. The one
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I'm filming from and the one in front of me. This is recorded for the Restored
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Rusty Relics Antique Auto Club which was founded in 1969 and is still going
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strong 55 years later. And we participate in parades and we have a big show every
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year and we do other events. That's restoredrustyrelics.com or rrrnj.com
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But of course if you want to learn more about the cars that you see here then
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you would go to motales.com. And with that I think I'll speed up the action a
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little bit and we'll get through a little faster to the end. So now we're
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going at 40 times speed and I really wish I had that Benny Hill theme music
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here and I know that it's not officially called Benny Hill theme music. And here
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we are the parade's just about over that's the final turn. So we're going
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down the classic cars go one way and the people go another way. So I guess it's
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time to say goodbye. We'll see you next time
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