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‘Night of the Troglodytes!!’ was held as a secret located
pre-party on Friday to kick off the ‘Customs by the Sea’
held by Kustomrama and ‘Race of Gentlemen’ hosted
by the Oilers CC for some beach racing by pre 1948
motorcycles and pre 1935 autos with speed equip-
ment no older than 1953 to make up two categories for
‘banger’ and ‘flathead’ in Wildwood NJ near Cape May
over the weekend. The Chopper exhibit was hosted by
Harley Davidson and DICE in the court yard of the ‘C’
shaped Surfcomber Motel’s with a loft housing the bar
and band’s for the spectator enjoyment.
Although the party started slowly around 5pm it would
quickly ramp up after registration for the racing near the
busy Oilers CC’s tuning pit for the vintage speedsters
got under way. Beneath neon glow of the historically
protected hotels and other art deco influenced diners as
they were in the fifties bathed the choppers were keen-
ly silhouetted as they came in crisscrossing the many
streets from all directions to descend on the area by the
droves to setup. The rumbling and vintage motor fumes
brought everybody out of their traveling slumber or mak-
ing last minute adjustments behind the old Airstream
trailer rentals to see what all the commotion was about
eventually spilling into the street that was 6 lanes wide
to fill the entire block. Luckily the famous boardwalk of
this south jersey town was in its off season for tourist al-
lowing the police to courteously block off the street ends
being a perk as the show hit its highest attendance to
previous years. Even the neighbors didn’t mind the com-
motion since much of the area was eerily closed till next
summer.
Attendees came from all over the states including Tex-
as, California, North Carolina, and Massachusetts as
well reaching Canada, Ja-
pan, France, Australia, and
Norway just to name a few
with many planning the trip
a year in advance. This pro-
vided a unique experience for
the east coast as one soaked in
the decades of choppers, bob-
bers, trikes, and café racers dis-
playing amazing tank art in every
color and pattern imaginable, long
“vintage speedsters”
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