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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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This was recorded back in 1996 at the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield, Massachusetts. the video is over 15 years old so please try to ignore t.
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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.
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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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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 2005 racing season was Joie Chitwood III's first as president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and it seemed at times to mimic the famous automotive daredevil and stunt show his.
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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.
