Yellow Jackets MC- Owned by None

04/03/2026

Late post but had a great weekend last week riding! Took some brothers from Texas to see Southern Arizona. Great times!

03/20/2026

02/12/2026

Had a great time in California this weekend at the David Mann Chopperfest! Thanks to the brother Wolfman of the Crash Inn chapter for showing me a great time!

01/10/2026

This one Is a repost, but a damn good one.

A story from an old brother named “Greaser”, with a short lesson.

I wrecked pretty bad when I raced in the BaJa in Cali. When I shattered my leg, I had a spiral break that should have been a "compound" , Bone poking through the skin kind of thing. Anyhow, I had to use a wheelchair for a bit.

Before that accident, my go to move was to go to the bar, get a buzz, grab a chick, show her a swing move or three, and take her home.. easy three step program: smash, gash and dash.

This was problematic after the race when I was in the wheelchair. My game was absolutely fu**ed, nobody wants to bang a cripple, right?

But my brother “HotRod” took it upon himself to be my personal wheel chair chauffeur whenever we were around each other. I didn't have to roll anywhere, He was pushing me.

This was awesome and I truly appreciated the bro-love that he brought me, but it truly culminated at a bar, one night, called the rusty beaver.

Some old slackjawed rusty dusty h***y tonk, where the ladies were hitting on ole HotRods pretty ass, and he was wing manning for me.

Not only did this glorious so**********ch wingman, he included and introduced me to the chicks that were flocking to him, he, when I asked one of them to dance, picked me up, out of my wheelchair and held me up while I showed her the old Greaser swing steps.

The man stood behind me, ten toes on God's green earth and propped my crippled ass up while I was drunkenly dancing with fat chicks, to help me get laid.

If that ain't a brother, then IDK what is.

Moral of this story is, I’d rather be holding up a drunk, crippled brother……..than bitching about him. There are a lot of “dudes” out there that live to stick that knife in a back, or talk smack behind a man’s back that they call “Brother”, instead of holding him up.

Hold your Brothers up, sometimes all they need is a little support.

-Relic

01/09/2026

Another funny Bob story! Just remember, it was like 1949, boys will be boys.

Bob Mcmillen:
I gotta tell I tell you, something about the the day at Riverside Raceway, but it'd be a little bit too embarrassing.

Thunder Press Magazine:
Go ahead.

Bob Mcmillen:
Well, I especially wouldn't want to tell it in front of my wife.

Thunder Press Magazine:
Oh, okay. you should tell it anyway.

Bob Mcmillen:
well, after grinding off all my knuckles racing and and, and it was a it was a hot day anyway, so So me and the, I don't remember who was with me. And So we went, we went down where the restrooms were and they were underneath the grandstands and went down there and there was some, there was some showers down there. So I laid on the concrete and had the cold water running on my head. And then, right across from my, oh no, I can't tell that.

Thunder Press Magazine:
Okay.

Bob Mcmillen:
But you know I wasnt a pervert. But, Across from where I was laying with the water running on my head, my head. There was, there was a hole in the wall over there. And it looked down the road of the ladies, stalls.

Thunder Press Magazine:
Ah. And….

Bob Mcmillen:
There's the guy that was with me while he went over and he was was peeking through that, that hole. And and and so I went over there to see what he was, what he was looking at. So I wandered over there and, and well let me take a look. And, I hope you ladies will forgive me for this. And, so I was looking to the, I was about to look in the hole and, and something grabbed me by the shoulder and pulled me back. And I said, Hey, I'm gonna quit.And then I turned around and here was this, this lady cop that was about that much taller than me.

Thunder Press Magazine:
Oh, no.

Bobs Wife:
Oh my god

Bob Mcmillen:
That's Funny

01/08/2026

I still see a lot of confusion about Wino Willie and the Yellow Jackets MC.

So let’s clear that up.

Wino Willie was a member of the 13 Rebels MC prior to 1946.

He came back from WW2 with a drinking problem. To his great credit, he kicked that problem right in ass later on in life.

In 1946, he was at a race and decided he could do better than the racers.

Now keep in mind that his club at the time, the 13 Rebels MC had many guys who augmented their income by racing and they had more than one Factory sponsored racer who was nationally known. So that should tell you how important racing was to them.

Wino burst onto the track, completely drunk, runs over a flag man and then crashes in the middle of the track.

There is some dispute over if he left the 13 Rebels MC or was kicked out, but either way, he went to the All American Cafe, where the 13 Rebels hung out and started a new club that he named the Boozefighters MC.

Side note: both clubs continued to hang out together with no issue.

Now Wino was a racer at heart so he naturally wanted his new Boozefighters MC to race in the big AMA sanctioned events.

Problem was, the AMA didnt like the name Boozefighter so they denied his new club a charter, meaning that the Boozefighters could not race in the AMA.

Here’s where we get to the Yellow Jackets MC.

In 1946, there were several MCs that used the name Yellow Jackets. One of those clubs was in Gardena California which is only a few miles away from South Gate California. Both of these are now neighborhoods of Los Angeles today.

South Gate was the home of the 13 Rebels and the All American Cafe.

So Wino had almost certainly seen, and knew the Yellow Jackets MC.

When the AMA refused him a charter, he either started a chapter of the Yellow Jackets or he simply used the name.

That’s why many Boozefighters raced under the Yellow Jackets.

Wino did not create the Yellow Jackets MC. In fact there is a Yellow Jackets MC in Ohio that goes back to 1922.

Hope that cleared up a few things

-Drifter

12/25/2025

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from our family to your's!

10/31/2025

Be safe out there and have a great time with friends and family!