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Think it'll be same one, called being Evel. It was revealed he threatened George Hamilton with a gun and at one point kidnapped his own wife :shock:


Cheated on her multiple times, beat his best friend with a baseball bat and was just an all around knob when he became famous.


Still a good watch

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Evel knievil... balls of steel , no brains or both.... saw a documentary on him once not meant to of been a very nice man.


https://www.facebook.com/461842884246836/videos/566015497494011/?t=98

 

I remember that because I was there !

Lots of waiting all day and then the let down of the crash at the end.

Most vivid memory of the day was a group of circus performers including a guy who did a shallow dive into what to me looked like a paddling pool from a platform that looked about 12 to 15 ft high, I thought he was bonkers then and I still do.

Knieval was a disappointment if I am honest and wound the crowd up with quite a few approach and stop runs but I suppose that's just playing your crowd.

Cheers

Ian

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I remember watching that on telly.

He had the best selling toy for a few years. Till he got into trouble, and they didn't want to be associated with him any more. Lost millions.

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Apparently when he got older he changed his ways a little and tried to make amends but he had pissed off his friends and family so much back in the day that they didn't want to know :shock:

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Apparently when he got older he changed his ways a little and tried to make amends but he had pissed off his friends and family so much back in the day that they didn't want to know :shock:

 

For some reason I think Richard Hammond did a bit of filming with him shortly before he died.

From what I recall I think Hammond said something like never meet your heros as even that late on he was erratic and just not "right".

Cheers

Ian

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