Childhood memory of strange 'motorsport'
06-27-2016, 09:15 AM
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Childhood memory of strange 'motorsport'
When I was a kid, I have fond memories of watching racing on TV with my father including stock cars, Indy cars and of course Figure 8 Racing and demolition derby.
I also remember a really strange sport where guys would jump off the back of a speeding car and slide on some sort of pad/metal. I remember this being on TV.
Yes, this is perhaps the oddest post I've ever made here and I make a lot of odd posts.
Was this sport from my imaginary friend or does someone here know what I'm talking about?
I also remember a really strange sport where guys would jump off the back of a speeding car and slide on some sort of pad/metal. I remember this being on TV.
Yes, this is perhaps the oddest post I've ever made here and I make a lot of odd posts.
Was this sport from my imaginary friend or does someone here know what I'm talking about?
06-27-2016, 09:47 AM
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06-27-2016, 09:51 AM
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wow. I have a fuzzy memory of an event more like a thrill show with, jumps, driving on 2 wheels etc. At some point a guy with a metal plate in his pants holds on to the bumper of a car and drags along behind on his feet, then slides on his butt. Is that what you recall? Or did I dream that?
One of my earliest real motorsport memories is the 1966 24hrs of Le Mans. The announcers kept calling the GT-40s " the 7 liter Fords" and I didn't know what they meant.
One of my earliest real motorsport memories is the 1966 24hrs of Le Mans. The announcers kept calling the GT-40s " the 7 liter Fords" and I didn't know what they meant.
06-27-2016, 11:47 AM
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Three Wheelin'
Maybe it was Evil Kneivel or something like that! Right up there with the world's strongest man competitions where the guys engaged in a footrace while carrying refrigerators!
06-27-2016, 01:54 PM
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wow. I have a fuzzy memory of an event more like a thrill show with, jumps, driving on 2 wheels etc. At some point a guy with a metal plate in his pants holds on to the bumper of a car and drags along behind on his feet, then slides on his butt. Is that what you recall? Or did I dream that?
One of my earliest real motorsport memories is the 1966 24hrs of Le Mans. The announcers kept calling the GT-40s " the 7 liter Fords" and I didn't know what they meant.
One of my earliest real motorsport memories is the 1966 24hrs of Le Mans. The announcers kept calling the GT-40s " the 7 liter Fords" and I didn't know what they meant.
I think that's how it worked. Really weird.
And VR, very funny!
06-27-2016, 02:29 PM
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I remember that guy, he had titanium plates on his hands, elbows, and knees, and butt.. would get dragged down a dragstrip at night making a big spectacle of sparks...
Looked it up.. Jim Bailey... Now I really remember him, he died trying to do the stunt hanging from the bottom of a plane... Didn't count on the extra weight of the suit and lost his grip mid air...
Looked it up.. Jim Bailey... Now I really remember him, he died trying to do the stunt hanging from the bottom of a plane... Didn't count on the extra weight of the suit and lost his grip mid air...
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06-27-2016, 03:51 PM
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Three Wheelin'
When I was a kid, I have fond memories of watching racing on TV with my father including stock cars, Indy cars and of course Figure 8 Racing and demolition derby.
I also remember a really strange sport where guys would jump off the back of a speeding car and slide on some sort of pad/metal. I remember this being on TV.
Yes, this is perhaps the oddest post I've ever made here and I make a lot of odd posts.
Was this sport from my imaginary friend or does someone here know what I'm talking about?
I also remember a really strange sport where guys would jump off the back of a speeding car and slide on some sort of pad/metal. I remember this being on TV.
Yes, this is perhaps the oddest post I've ever made here and I make a lot of odd posts.
Was this sport from my imaginary friend or does someone here know what I'm talking about?
06-27-2016, 03:57 PM
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I remember that guy, he had titanium plates on his hands, elbows, and knees, and butt.. would get dragged down a dragstrip at night making a big spectacle of sparks...
Looked it up.. Jim Bailey... Now I really remember him, he died trying to do the stunt hanging from the bottom of a plane... Didn't count on the extra weight of the suit and lost his grip mid air...
Looked it up.. Jim Bailey... Now I really remember him, he died trying to do the stunt hanging from the bottom of a plane... Didn't count on the extra weight of the suit and lost his grip mid air...
Crappy video but here's the guy.
Jim Bailey stunt with Junior Thompson TA/FC at OCIR 1-10-1981 - YouTube
Jim Bailey stunt with Junior Thompson TA/FC at OCIR 1-10-1981 - YouTube
Takes one to know one Michael!
06-27-2016, 03:59 PM
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Three Wheelin'
06-27-2016, 09:41 PM
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Gary
...almost reminds me of when, as kids, during wintertime we would jump on the rear bumper of an unsuspecting car and squat/slide down the road behind it on our feet. Of course, three of us tried it on my brother's '65 Bug and ended up with the bumper in our hands.....