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Memorial Day Parade with the Restored Rusty Relics
Feb 4, 2025
What it's like to drive a Plymouth behind a Dodge, in the 2024 Bergenfield Memorial Day Parade with the Restored Rusty Relics
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hi this is Dave from motels I'm just
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going to talk a little through this
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parade uh mostly because we had a sound
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truck behind us through the parade which
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kept on playing copyrighted music from
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Whitney Houston and a guy who does Chevy
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commercials so uh YouTube won't really
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let us have that soundtrack on the air
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so to speak so what you're seeing right
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now is an eight-time speed up of the
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Bergenfield New Jersey Memorial Day
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Parade and right now we're just going up
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the hill parade hasn't really started
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well for us the parade hasn't started
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yet but we're going through the staging
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area a lot of different groups here so
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it's taking us a while to clear out so
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Tom is in front of us with that Dodge
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Daytona and the flickering brakes is
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because it's multiplied by eight times
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so every time he Taps the brakes it
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looks like a little flicker so now we're
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making left turn by the school and we're
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off on Prospect
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now parades are a fun thing to do if you
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have a classic car and local car club to
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go with I think most people don't really
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take full advantage uh some of our
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members are more common at parades than
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others and everybody likes you including
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the police officers as you see
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here people are waving people are
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cheering people ask you about your car
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through the open window it's a lot of
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fun I I really don't see why people with
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classic cars don't do it at least once a
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year so in front of us is Tom and his
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Dodge Daytona that's an 80s car which is
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old enough to be a classic at this point
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and in front of Tom is a King and
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that's a fun little 1965 car originally
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came with a one-cylinder engine but the
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owner of this one has uh hopped it up
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it's now got a two-cylinder engine so
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it's more powerful but he still gets 50
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miles per gallon
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so we're going past the high school now
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little stop and go I try to even things
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out I also try to take advantage of
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being in the parade and go through as
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many red lights as I can and as you can
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see I try to go through on the middle of
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the street crossing a double yellow
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because hey when else do you get to do
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it uh you can also see my turn signals
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flickering from time to time that's when
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I put on my hazard
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flashers just for
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fun so a pretty good crowd now it was
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raining before and after the parade so
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we didn't get as many people as we
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usually get normally there's a lot of
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crowds on the street during these
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parades especially uh in Bergenfield
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they have twice a year St Patrick's Day
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and Memorial Day and when we put the
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cars away we'll be taking them back out
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again on July 4th for the July 4th
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parade so there's a couple of towns
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locally that we use those parades so I'm
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recording this although you see that
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there's there's two Mopars in it the one
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I'm filming from and the one in front of
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me uh this is recorded for the restored
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Rusty relics antique auto club which was
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founded in
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1969 and is still going strong 55 years
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later and we participate in parades and
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we have a big show every year and we do
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other
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events that's restored Rusty relics.com
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or rrr nj.com
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but of course if you want to learn more
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about the cars that you see here then
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you would go to motels.com and with that
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I think I'll speed up the action a
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little bit and we'll get through a
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little faster to the end so now we're
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going at 40 times speed and I really
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wish I had that Benny Hill theme music
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here and I know that it's not officially
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called Benny hell theme music and here
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we are the Parade's just about over
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that's the final turn so we're going
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down the class of cars go one way and
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the people go another way so I guess
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it's time to say goodbye we'll see you
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next time
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