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Chris Ives' "Diary of an American Street Racer" script
begins to show some life:
Chris Ives, our club's founder, wrote a screen play while stationed
in Iraq. Chris was trying to sell the script to have an actual Hollywood film made
from his own work. After a couple years of having no luck in getting a bite, we decided
to make small "YouTube" video segments to try to sell the script to a production
company while having a bit of fun with it ourselves in the meantime.
After several planning meetings, we started our filming sessions. below on this page,
you can see the first two sessions with the actual video and some behind the scenes
pics. Check them out and see if you may want to participate at one of our future
filming sessions.
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Will this be our future movie poster?
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Chris Ives' movie now has it's first minutes of actual footage in
the can. We decided to take several selected scenes from the movie script and create
a "YouTube" trailer. Danny's Boulevard Drive In was the setting for one
scene in the film. This scene, set in 1969, has "Ace" in a legendary Gasser
that makes a pass through the local hang-out looking for a race. There also is a
police car patrolling the area played by the actual Chief of Police from Ashland.
The Ashland police and Fire police really helped us out by shutting down rt. 61 on
June 15th (Father's Day) for a few minutes to allow us to set up and shoot the shot.
A second scene was filmed after the session which happens later in the movie where
the main characters steal a police car and race past on their way to the race track
where they are late to compete. Sound interesting? Read the script by clicking on
the title... "Diary of an
American Street Racer" |
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Thanks to everyone who showed up and hung out for over two hours to
make this happen. Thanks to The Police and Fire Police, Bob Bixler, John Schreffler,
Donald Gensel, and Burd Wetzel who helped shut down the highway for us to film. And
a special thanks to Randy, the owner of Danny's for opening the drive in and bringing
out his beautiful '64 vette.
Participating in the event were Chris Ives' with his '69 Yenko Clone Camaro doing
the directing, Dave Lehr as "Ace" in his '56 Chevy Gasser, Derek Griffiths
taking behind the scenes footage and helping operate the cameras, Denny Aungst operating
the primary cameras, Melissa Aungst helping with camera operations and standing in
as "Sunshine", and Adam Bernodin playing the chief of police and driving
the '61 Dodge cop car as the lead character stand in.
Extras included Adam Brendan's '69 Charger, Lloyd George and his '64 Chevy Blear
station wagon, Ken Horning and his '66 Fairlaine, Randy Snyder and his '64 Vette
Convertible, Bill Schoffstall and his '64 Falcon, Dan and Gabriel Dieter and his
yellow '69 Z28 Camaro, Art and Elaine Faust and their '66 Cobra, Mike & Ruth
Bordner with their '70 Grabber Maverick (and kids Laura, Rebecca, &Gabi) , Ron
& Donna Wallace with their '70 Chevelle SS, and Kevin Reese in his '71 Chevy
Nova.
Watch for future events at the Diary of an American Street Racer Page. |
| Our second shoot didn't go near as smoothly as the first shots. This
shoot was scheduled to be held at Russell Automotive outside of Lykens on a long
stretch of almost perfectly straight road in August 2008. Our plans included getting
help from the local police and the local fire company to get the road shut down for
the 5 minute shots. Well, we failed to get the police to be present even though they
were aware of it. The fire company didn't come to the event this time. They just
loaned us some flares, vests, and radios for traffic control. We were a little uncomfortable
getting things rolling, but with the large turnout we had, the set up began. We had
to hit the lighting just right as the sun went down. The first portion included a
simulated drag race shot the the cars were to leave the scene as the '56 gasser rolled
in. Wouldn't you know, that is exactly when the state police rolled in. After a bit
of a discussion, the officers realized this was not an illegal street race. |
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After discussing what we planned to do, we told them we wanted them
to stay on the scene to verify there was no reaal racing taking place. Heck the two
gassers were even staged on Russell's lot for the major portion of the video. They
asked how long we needed which we replied about two to three minutes. They obliged
by blocking off the road for us to stage the launch scene. After which the police
saw we were done and left the area. Wouldn't you know, one of the cameras, operated
by Chris himself, wasn't turned on for the shot from behind the cars. Did we let
it go? No way, we had to set it up and do it again on our own. I was a nervous wreck
till it was done, but the shot made the film.
Thanks to everyone who showed up and hung out to make this happen. Thanks to The
two state police officers who shall remain nameless and the Wiconisco Fire Co. for
use of their equipment to shut down the highway for us to film. And a special thanks
to Jeff, the owner of Russell's Automotive for opening the shop. Also thanks to Pete
and Karen Tobash for getting some pics of behind the scenes pictured here. |
Starring in this segment are Dave Lehr as "Ace" in his '56
Chevy Gasser, Bill Schoffstall as "Willys Bill" and his '40 Willys Gasser,
Chal Schoffstall as "The Wiconisco Kid" (Willys Bill's pit man), Kevein
Holland and his '66 Chevelle SS396 as "Drag Racer #1, Ken Horning and his '66
Fairlaine 390 as "Drag Racer #2", Melissa Aungst as "Race Starter
#1", Crystal Jones as "Race Starter #2", Andy Bernodin as "The
Police Chief", and our "betting youth", Alex Wray, Jason Webster,
and Steven Palmer.
Participating in working positions at the event were Chris Ives, the script writer
who was also doing the directing, Derek Griffiths helping behind the scenes footage
and helping operate the cameras, Denny Aungst operating the primary cameras, Melissa
Aungst helping with camera operations, and Mike Potts, Amy Reichert, and AJ Wolff
handling the road control.
Extras and their rides included Chal Schoffstall's 63 1/2 Galaxie 500 lightweight,
Rick, Gina, & Login Wetzel in their white '55 Chevy, Brian & Amy Zimmerman
in their '58 Chevy Impala 348, Bill Schoffstall's '64 Falcon, Pete and Karen Tobash
in their '70 Chevy Nova, John Murray in his '66 Chevelle convertible, Dan Palmer
in his flames '65 Falcon, Red Florida in his green '56 Chevy, and extras as spectators
Jeff, Crystal, Evan, & Nicholas Russell, Tim Klinger, Chris Wertz, Drew Wetzel,
Terry Lenker, Andrew Weist, Pam Holland, Dean Shadle, and Kayla Jones.
Watch for future events at the Diary of an American Street Racer Page. |
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