THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONVOY FAN!
The Foremost Expert on Convoy (Movie and Song)
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remember watching the
movie
on HBO/Prism while living in Norristown, PA when I was very little. My
father was a CB'er (handle was "Big Spender") mostly in Montgomery
County and Bucks County, PA so my family and I enjoyed talking to other
truckers on his
Lafayette Base Station, so I fell in love with the movie. My
father found the 45 LP one day in a store and gave it to me for my
birthday, I never stopped playing it. In 1989 I found the video to
the movie, but didn't think bout buying it. I saw the movie many times
on WTBS, ABC during the mid 80's/90's. Between 1996-98 I placed a want ad for the video in local Philadelphia trade paper and a video store which was liquidating sold it to me for $20. I tell ya, I think I played the video for the next year about 100-200 times and any time it was on tv. I copied most of the movie's audio to cassette so I could listen to it anywhere I went with my walkman, as well as the original "CONVOY". In 1999 I found the "An American Legend CW McCall" site and found alot of info of Mr. Bill Fries career. I recently wrote to Bill Fries in his Colorado residence. I recieved my CONVOY video box insert autographed!  
My Special "Convoy/25 Years of C.W. McCall Shirt.
(Shirt was created by Grasshopper Graphics of Lancaster, PA)
Although he had a "black lollipop microphone". The mic shown is one he
used on one of his mobiles.
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ALL ABOUT ME
Hi my name is David Frederick...I am now 37 years old and live in Pennsylvania with my wife Joann and son Adam. "Mr. Wrestling" (I had been obsessed with pro wrestling from 1986-2004) was my high school nickname, Roxborough High School, PA Class of '89. I was born March 15, 1971 in Levittown (Bucks County), PA. My earliest memories begin while my parents and I lived in Norristown, PA as my father managed a 125 unit apt complex on the edge of the Schuykill River in October 1976. It was here I first saw my father use the cb base station and watched the movie Convoy on cable tv. My brother Donny was in January 1977. In 1984 we had to move a few times, including back to Levittown and Conchohoken, PA. In Sept 1985 we moved back to the apt complex in Norristown but by September we moved to West Philadelphia where the company Campus Apts, that had owned the Norristown apt complex, was headquartered. I graduated high school June 20, 1989 but rather than continue school I worked in apt maintenance with my father and the company.
