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A Fun Story about Al Montgomery Sr. “the stuntman” and the Movie Mister Roberts

This story starts off with a big time movie producer who comes to the shop located at 804 Dillingham Boulevard and wants to buy a Harley Davidson for the filming of the movie Mr. Roberts starring Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon.  Al Sr. sells him the Harley for a good price about $700 back then, and the producer invites him and the employees down to the harbor at the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base to watch them film the bike.  The bike was being used for a stunt in which a drunken sailor was late returning to the ship and the ship was already pulling out of port. The drunken sailor runs the Harley off the end of the pier trying to catch the ship.  Since they had just finished dredging the new harbor their was still some mud and silt left behind. Needless to say, the stuntman and the producers who flew in from the mainland chickened out and started handing the producer back the money they got paid to do the stunt.

When the gang form the shop saw this they started to yell “Montgomery will do it!”  Sure enough Al Sr., who by this time already had a few beers…  Says “Hell Yeah I’ll do it!!” So Al Sr. puts on the sailor dress whites and tells the cameraman to get this in one shot.  Well he takes the bike and runs down the pier bobbing and weaving like a drunken sailor would and flies off the pier into the water with the bike!!! After the stunt, they sent divers to retrieve the bike, after about an hour of looking they still could not find it.  Al Sr. goes up to the producer and says, “If I can get it in one toss of this hook do I get to keep it?”  The producer, thinking there’s no way he’s going to grab it, says “You got a deal!”  And sure enough with one toss  Al Sr.  hooks the bike and they were able to tow it out of the water, and the next week it was back on the showroom floor! If you ever want to watch a great classic film, check out Mister Roberts!

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