
His expansion of the Hells Angels into Illinois escalated a decades-old war with the gang's rival, the Outlaws, who once retaliated by planting C-4 explosives under his truck. His biggest source of income? Dealing drugs. Matter was also the founder and 21-year president of the the Hells Angels motorcycle gang's Minnesota chapter.

He manufactured his own line of V-twin motorcycles, was a nationally ranked pro-stock motorcycle racer and a top-fuel racer. Matter, who dropped out of Fort Dodge public schools in the eighth grade, went on to build a multimillion-dollar empire.

Pat Matter's story could be considered that of a hometown boy who made good - by being very bad.
