Stunt car jumps over a house at a carnival, circa 1920

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Suspension systems and vehicle build quality have come quite a way in the following century.

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If you are of a certain age, you will well remember this clip from the outro sequence of Jay Ward’s George of the Jungle.

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Another Tesla demonstration that could have gone better, Elon?

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When a railroad wanted to dispose of an old or broken engine, it wasn’t terribly unusual to sell it to a promoter who would stage the head-on collision of two trains. It also wasn’t unheard of for a spectator or two to be killed by flying debris.

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Crash at Crush is a particularly egregious example of this :+1:

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Yup.

The old TV series Dukes of Hazzard went through a large number of 1969 Dodge Chargers through it’s production run; they had to switch to using 1:8 miniatures near the end of the sixth season, as the cars were getting hard to find. (I wonder why? :wink: ) Each car jump in the series was, more or less, a car that was totaled.

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