In The Fast and the Furious, on their date, Kia tells Brian that Dom and Letty met when Letty was 11 years old. In Fast and Furious 6, after their race, Dom tells Letty they met at her first street race when she was 15.
On December 9th, 1964, Manfred Mann performed Do Wah Diddy Diddy on the ABC-TV program 'Shindig!'... Four months earlier on August 30th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; and on October 11th it peaked at #1 (for 2 weeks) and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100...
The theme song for the movie, âGidgetâ, was released in 1959 and climbed as high as #41 on the U.S. charts. The song was composed by Fred Karger with lyrics written by Patti Washington, and it was sung by none other than James Darren, who appears as a star in the movie as a surfer named Moondoggie. Here is a picture of James Darren, singer of the song, next to Sandra Dee, the star of the movie.