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In spite of new responsibilities, he still found time for auto racing. He would return to Indianapolis following the war and post a fifth place finish in the 1946 classic, an outcome he would replicate in 1949 and 1950, and when he still found time to race a sprint car he usually found victory lane.
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3.39K subscribers Subscribe Subscribed Like Share 9.8K views 3 years ago Joie Chitwood and his Thrill Drivers put on a show at the GM Milford Proving Grounds with the 1966 Chevrolets. For.
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Vintage Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. 1956 Chevy Film. Stunt Driving and Auto Racing. 1956 Chevy Film. - YouTube 0:00 / 9:17 Vintage Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. 1956 Chevy Film..
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Loren (Bumps) Willert joined Joie Chitwood's auto thrill show as a mechanic the day after he graduated from high school, in 1953. The next night, Willert did the slide for life, where the stunt man lowers himself off the back of a speeding car and slides on his posterior through a circle of flaming gasoline.
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And of course, Joie Chitwood's was the best-known operation in the biz, with multiple teams criss-crossing the country to perform at local race tracks and state and county fairs. Chitwood actually got his start back in 1942 when his boss Lucky Teter, the previous thrill show king, had his luck run out while performing his trademark rocket car stunt.
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Unfortunately Lucky was killed on July 4, 1942 while attempting a World record 170 foot ramp to ramp jump. In the last of the war years, Joie got the idea to buy the remaining ramps and cars from lucky Teter's widow. Many trial and error jumps and crashes later Joie perfected most of the Teter auto stunts.
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Posted on November 5, 2022 by MCG As you know, we love the classic auto thrill shows. Here are the kings of the craft, Joie Chitwood and crew, beating up on the 1952 Fords. George Rice "Joie" Chitwood (1912-1988) was not just the top dog in the golden age of the auto daredevil shows.
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Meanwhile, a crowd watches the Auto Thrill Show from nearby bleachers. "Popcorn, peanuts, and red hots for the customer, and a real hot car for the drivers," Chitwood says. "Chevrolet is the.
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George Rice Chitwood [1] (April 14, 1912 - January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar driver and businessman. He is best known as a daredevil in the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show. Background Chitwood was born in Denison, Texas. [2] He was orphaned as a 14-year-old and he ended school after 8th grade. [3]
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The "Joie Chitwood Thrill Show" was an exhibition of auto stunt driving that became so successful, Chitwood gave up racing his racing career. Often called "Hell Drivers," he had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with their death-defying automobile stunts.
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The show became a family tradition. Parents, who as kids in the 1950s had seen Chitwood's smartly dressed thrill drivers do Precision Driving and the Slide for Life, took their own children to see the same stunts in the 1970s and 1980s. Nowhere was family more evident than in the show itself.
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Jay Leno's Garage 874K views 11 years ago See the ramp jumps, rollovers and another crash test (brings tears to the eyes!) - Original Chevrolet Promo Film..
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0:00 8:11 Joie Chitwood's Thrill Shows Joie Chitwood 14 subscribers Subscribe 1.6K views 3 years ago Chitwood Auto Thrill Show - A look back on Chitwood's Auto Thrill.
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Joie Chitwood wasn't the first auto thrill show operator, but he was certainly the biggest and the best known of the lot. A journeyman race car pilot who drove in seven Indy 500s between 1940 and 1950, Chitwood purchased Lucky Teter's travelling stunt show in 1943—from Teter's widow. Teter's luck had run out attempting to jump a pair.
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Category: Classics We can collectively thank Joie Chitwood Sr. for everything he did to make automobiles into vehicles, so to speak, of pure enjoyment. That was plenty. To be sure, when Chitwood was in his element, cars were already fun for those who could buy them and take them to the roads.