Re: Flips Speed Shop

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bobrizzi

      I Read this article and felt bad for FLIP.I am originally from the Bronx and me and Flip go back a along way.I grew up down the street from Flip’s Allerton Ave shop and was part of his White Castle Crew in the 1960’s.We used to make “occasional “trips down the street to the Hutch, I had a 66′ Chevelle at the time and the Flip Man had his Vette.The Mount Vernon guys would hook up with us, Fast Eddie Jackson,Clarance Davenport and from Arthur Ave Louie Mombo with his sleeper 427/l-88 Chevelle.Over the last couple of years I would stop at the store here and there to see how he was doing and he would tell me everybody that comes in is for misc …… The kids of this generation was all building Rice Burners and alot of the guys who came in were using him buying their parts from Summit and coming to him for his wide selection of Earls Fittings and his knowledge of SPEED..It is a real shame what goes on today when a guy like Flip who has always had a solid reputation and put his heart and soul into something for so long has to shut down because of high rent and circumstances out of his control.