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The Last Sandy Beach Outlaw
Drag Race; 1982
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Illegal and
dangerous only made drag racing at Sandy Beach more
desirable and its history can be unofficially documented
all the way up into the early 1980s, when the last
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TALES
FROM THE ROAD
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There were so many cars flying out
of Sandys that circling back, this time in the direction of my
house would be impossible. I had to turn around at Blow Hole.
When I reached the lookout I was surrounded by seven cop cars.
I instantly recognized one of
them; a sergeant I knew from hanging out at Chevron. He peered
through his window and asked if I had been racing, then shook
his head and told me to go home. He was letting me go! Sgt.
Carlos waved his hand signaling me to go first, while all seven
of them followed towards the beach. They knew where I lived, and
they knew I had to go back that way to Kalama Valley.
As I slowly rumbled past Sandy's
it looked strangely deserted. All that remained was a windswept
salt spray coming from the pounding surf.
No one ever raced again at Sandy's
after that night, at least nothing really worth talking about
anyway. But stories of the Flea and a deuce from Hawaii Kai
would linger for years.
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Joe Yu aka
`da Flea & Danny Sachs, the Kalama Valley Kid. 22 years
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22 years later I went to a car
show at the Blaisdell and while taking pictures, a guy walked up
to me and said, "Brah, my friend like meet you." "Who's your
friend?" I replied with a gentle smile. He said come with me; my
friend wants to meet you. It was Joe Yu, the Flea. We talked and
took pictures. Today, he's around 60 or so, runnin' a charter
fishing company out of Kewalo Basin in Honolulu.
I went on to build four more
street rods after that Thanksgiving night. Then six years ago I
moved to Oregon where I watch the rain fall and now punch out
old racing stories for my online magazine, HonoluluStreets.com.
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