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AUTO THRILL SHOW |
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AUTO THRILL SHOW |
Thirty "Hell Drivers" risk life, limb and vehicles, crashing cars and performing other stunts in a daring high-speed show. Among the features of the program are: four-car bumper tag, wing ski jumps (drivers careen off a low ramp on two wheels at 50 miles an hour), a crash rollover contest, and the "dive bomber crash" (off the ramp with an old car onto the top of a parked car). In the show's climax, a driver pilots a truck on a dangerous ramp-to-ramp "flight", hurtling more than 70 feet through the air. The 6,000-seat Auto Thrill Stadium has a banked figure-8 track, the first such track to be created exclusively for stunt driving.
| The Helldrivers stunt show was located in the far southeastern corner of the Fair grounds, tucked back behind the General Motors pavilion. The facility basically consisted of a small racetrack, an open-air grandstand, and shops to repair the vehicles damaged in the shows. (CD16 Set 79 #8) |
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| One of the stunt drivers is seen demonstrating how to drive a car on only two wheels. The ramp behind the car was used to help launch a variety of vehicles into the air and over obstacles, including several stuntmen lying side-by-side as cars and trucks passed over them. (CD21 Set 109 #26) |
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