True Films 3.0 - Kevin Kelly

The Devil At Your Heels
Another crazy Canadian. This is a guy who jumps cars for a living. He
buys junkers, pops the windows out, and then with a running start, uses
a ramp to see how many lined-up cars he can fly his junker over (usually
a dozen). He does that twice a night until he breaks a bone as he crashes
into the last car. After 20 years and many injuries this small-time circus
gets boring so he is seized by a big dream: to jump a car one mile. Over
a river. A river that separates the US and Canada. So for the next 5 years
his life is consumed as he spends millions of dollars of other people’s
money building this gigantic impossible ramp 200 feet into the air on
the edge of the St. Lawrence River, while every possible thing that can go
wrong with his rocket car goes wrong. Even the great Evel Knievel visits
and advises him to give up. Nothing stops him from trying, and nothing
prepares you for the shock of the surprise ending. Oh my gosh.
By Robert Fortier
1981, 103 min.
Available from
revengeismydestiny.com
His old Chevy goes
flying over buses. But
often he’ll miss his
target (below) and it
will crash. Amazingly,
serious injuries are rare.
The impossible jump
across the St. Lawrence
River begins with this
humongous ramp (left).
To drum up investors he
fires up the jets in his
jet car.
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