Just A Dumb Ol Boys, never thinking at all.

[Rev. Rye]

Just as a reminder: this shit never works outside of the movies. Even then, that only works because they use at least two cars (three if we need to a separate shot of the car in the air.) The car that actually goes up in the air NEVER actually makes it down in a driveable condition. Due to the physics involved, it WILL end up falling down hood-first, causing structural damage that the car will never recover from. And, of course, that's a best-case scenario.

If you ever watched The Dukes of Hazzard and wanted a 69 Charger of your own, well, if you can't find a real one, this show is why. According to Cooter, 325 Chargers were used on the show, and most of them were wrecked. That's a total of 11 cars crashed every five episodes. And I suspect the total would be higher if they didn't have to resort to stock footage in the later seasons. And even then, they had 500-1000 lbs worth of sandbags in the trunk to keep it from nosing down earlier. And the best case scenario for many of them was still bending on impact.

They might have more luck if they tried it with a motorcycle. Key word here being "might." A motorcycle is a lot lighter than a car, so the motorcyclist can change their center of gravity a hell of a lot easier (especially if they modify it). And there's still a significant risk that it will fuck up.





That said, that wasn't the last time he did a jump, this was:




Also, I found out that he once did a jump in my Dad's hometown of Kaukauna, and he beefed it there, too. However, I was able to find footage of the first, successful jump, but not the crash on the second jump.