Background
As the story was told by Melvin van Peebles one June evening at the 1994 AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival: “I was riding a bus at the Cairo festival when a fellow member of the International Jury asked me if I might be interested in making an Erotic Tale for Regina Ziegler. We had this guy on a motorcycle ‘vroooming’ us through the street crowds, so the next morning at breakfast, I came up with an idea about a shy teenager with pimples, a good fairy with only one wish to give, and a dream-bike that went VRROOOooommMMMM… When my horny tale became the standing festival joke, particularly with the young crowd in the bus, I figured: “Okay, let’s make a movie out of it!”
America’s premier black director, whose Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) scored as one of the largest grossing independent films ever, dropped stage and music commitments to come out of filmmaking retirement when he heard that an old Manhattan office-neighbor, Bob Rafelson, was going to make an Erotic Tale too. He sent Regina Ziegler a comic-book storyboard of how he envisioned a motorcycle “morphing” into a gorgeously sexy woman via state-of-the-art special-effects. Melvin’s storyboard is now one of Regina’s archival treasures.
First, Gillo Portocorvo requested Vrooom for his “Window to Images” section at the 1993 Venice festival, but a decision had to be made instead to preview all six Erotic Tales at the 1994 Cannes festival. A month later, Melvin joined Bob Rafelson and Susan Seidelman in LA for the American premiere, then left with the Erotic Tales for South Africa … to tell his morphing story again.

Synopsis
Once upon a time a teenager named Leroy did a bent-over old lady a favor. Leroy was a loner, not because he wanted to be, but because the other boys had things he did not have: like girlfriends. All Leroy had was pimples on his face. Naturally, the girls, even the homely ones, ignored Leroy. So, poor Leroy was lonely, but he was horny as hell. Anyway, the bent-over lady turns out to be a witch and and as a reward for helping her, she offers to grant Leroy a wish. Leroy says he has two wishes so dear to his heart he can't make a decision.
The witch takes pity on him and agrees to grant him his two wishes, if he promises never to tell anyone or share his good fortune with anyone else. Leroy promises never to tell, whereupon the witch tells him to go to the fork in the road just outside of town at midnight and look behind the big tree. That night, Leroy does as instructed...... Lo and behold, behind the old oak tree, he finds a motorcycle! Leroy's heart leaps with joy at the sight of the powerful machine. He searches around for his second wish but he can't find it. Leroy switches on his new motorcycle. Vrooom vroom vroooom! It springs to life... and Leroy soon finds out that this is no ordinary bike! But a bike that can make all his dreams come true.