What is now labled as the Knytes-of-Anarchy/AyreWolvez , started rather simple.
Back in late 1978 I went to the Early Iron, Rod & Custom Show in Twin Falls Idaho. While there, I got to talking to a fellow gearhead named Jimmy MacDonald and he , like I, was living in Hagerman Idaho. We found we had many things including aspirations of the ultimate low buck home-style hot rod shop. So a small shop was located in Hagerman, and the fun began. Opened as Pat & Jim’s Speed & Custom Shop, we began and finished several customer as well as personal projects. However life was going to change unlike the valley had never imagined and even us.
The fall of 1979 would soon start a revolution of performance automotive excellence that had never before been known. We as a shop were doing well , but not as well as we thought we should. Thus a trip to the major hot rod shows of the era, was in order. So I loaded up in my 69 Chevy Caprice and headed to Salt Lake City. Just outside of Burley it decided to snow. It was 8:00PM and the snow was so heavy that I couldn’t go home to Hagerman , and Sweetzer Summit was closed. So I sought refuge at the Burley Best Western at the time , known as the Burley Ramada Inn. At 10:00PM was getting a bit hungry so went to the cafe of the motel. On my way out of my room, saw parked next to my heap, was a 1970 Dodge Charger, that had been made into a raw duplicate of the General Lee, from the TV show the Dukes-of-Hazzard. Talked to the kid who built and owned it and told him should he wish to sell the car to give me a call. Went home the day after and that was that for a time.
Two years later , was out hunting down some props for the diorama or display for a ride we had planned to take to that years SLC AutoRama. So after chatting with the director of the Burley High School Cheerleaders, see we were looking for white go-go boots. For that display. Any mile , the director of the BHS cheerleaders, told me that the cheerleader director of East Minico Jr. High still used those boots on their drill team.
Out of my eye through a corner window, saw ye ole General, with a FOR SALE sign in the windshield. So called the number on the sign , a deal was struck, and ye ole General was on its way to Hagerman. That same year, 1981, the car was rebuilt, went to the SLC AutoRama, took best of show, and the rumble began. The car created the fan base and membership interest and the club was a good marketing tool for the shop. Jimmy and I , along with a few gearhead friends, got together along with 10 more interested in creating a home grown, grass roots hot rod club combined with a Dukes-of-Hazzard fan club. But what to call it? There was a club called the Squires Car Club in Pocatello that was sort of what we were doing, but the name was not sounding right. At the time was a hit major movie called the HollyWood Knights, that starred Robert Wuhl, Tony Danza . The name was a fit, so a redoux on the name and a slight mis spell , and the Hazzard County Knytes Kustmz Association was born, granted a state charter, and in June 1982 the Hazzard County Knytes, became official.
How the Hazzard County Knytes met warbird military aircraft, next time, here in HazzardAyre.
L8R
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