Daredevil Evel Knievel is in London Hospital in “satisfactory” condition after jumping 13 buses and crashing at 100 miles per hour in front of 70,000 fans at Wembley Stadium. He shows no sign of ...

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The first automobile race in the United States was the Chicago Times-Herald race in 1895. In the century and some change ...

With nothing left to lose, he packed up his car and drove ... his flying father Evel, also battled the bottle. For Koebel, like the Knievel’s daring launches and crashes, booze brings ...

Few events could draw a crowd quite like classic stuntman Evel ... Knievel would travel more than 140 feet in the air. But something went wrong as he tried to land the bike, causing a horrific crash.

Robbie Knievel broke his leg in his crash. Evel Knievel instead attempted to soar over a mile-wide Snake River Canyon chasm in Idaho in September 1974. His rocket-powered cycle crashed into the ...

In the crash, Knievel suffered a crushed pelvis ... California. The 19-car jump was also filmed for the movie, Evel Knievel. Knievel became so famous that the Ideal Toy Company produced a series ...

"His indifference after the crash confirms his indifference ... "I would equate Amy's injury to something Evel Knievel might have had back in the day," Dr. Darryl Kaelin, medical director ...

Today, motorcycle and car stunts are planned by teams of engineers using computers, with every detail modeled and simulated down to the millisecond. Evel Knievel was certainly no engineer. He did it ...

Spangler is returning to his second home where he’s done many stunts during the Evel Knievel Days events ... Spangler also made jumps in his car, including a fiery crash. “I came in a little bit short ...

A motorcyclist had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day in Chisago County this weekend. In a "Saturday Afternoon Shenanigans" post on Facebook, the Chisago County Sheriff's Office said a ...

Danger has been in the Guinness Book of World Records, beat Stage 4 cancer, became friends with his idol, the late Evel Knievel ... A year later, he suffered a crash at Hudson Speedway in New ...