Kenny powers stunt driver

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Get an insurance quote. More on this topic. Archived More essential pointers for safe winter car storage Mike Bumbeck. Archived 11 car and truck models born as trim levels Brandan Gillogly. Carter returned to stunt driving and in attempted to jump a pond in Peterborough, Ontario. During the jump his car - a modified Pontiac Firebird - suffered a malfunction and Carter crashed badly but vowed to try the jump again. Several months later he did. The vehicle missed its target landing ramp by 30 meters and landed on its roof.

Carter was killed instantly. Sign In. Edit Ken Carter. Showing all 10 items. Would often grow a goatee when preparing for jump season or a major stunt.

His crew and back up men would do the same, so that if Carter were injured and unable to complete the jump, one of his crew would stand in for him. Planned to jump the St. Lawrence Seaway from Canada into the United States on 26 September in a jet-powered Lincoln Continental, but didn't go through with it. Deciding that Carter had "chickened out," the film crew hired to shoot the stunt convinced Kenny Powers to attempt it, which he did on 5 October.

Traveling just feet, Powers broke eight vertebrae, three ribs, and a wrist. Managed and announced at a Florida race track when he was not on tour. Rarely went to the movies. He watched sports, mostly football and baseball. He knew all the names of the Montreal expos players. It's my dream. Now I'm in it all by myself. It started and it's ending the way it began: by myself, in a car, with a field full of people, spectators, that came to see a guy do his thing, and I'm going to get it done.