Man, all that buildup and then someone stands in front of the camera right as he goes off the ramp lmao. Some things never change. That’s really cool footage, I’m glad that was found. Especially as someone that lives just up the road in Champlin and never knew Evil did a stunt so close. Hell I never even knew there was a dragway around here!
I was there at 6:45am in the pits with my cousin Dale and Sandy Meyer and son Chris. Dale raced a green GTX and Sandy raced a Road Runner. Chris and I walked the pits and at the end of the strip was Evel’s semi and trailer that was awesome no one would come out probably sleeping still it was early. After the jump I was on the track right next to Evel and my cousin Kim and Bridgette got a hug from him. Awesome day I will never forget
I think you can see dales car in this video or no that wasn't it at 0:12 mark I can't see well to make out body style of that shell looks like a mach1 mustang shell or a gtx can't tell don't have my glasses on lol
Great video and memories. It’s said that the best camera is the one you have with you. Very easy to take photos and video today. Your Granddad did a great job. Thanks for sharing !
It's really great that we can see history like this on video!! The 'steam powered motorcycle' and referring to the Dodge Sportsman Vans as 'Buses' mistakes were the icing on the cake of this iconic piece of Daredevil Show entertainment we used to have. Those truly were the good old days!
I had to listen to steam powered Harley a few times I thought my hearing was off. The Skycycle was steam powered. I think the Harleys were usually XR750s. Gas powered.
I remember watching Knievel, on Wild World of Sports, when I was growing up. His jump attempts inspired 12 yr old me, to beg (& convince) my parents to buy me a motorcycle for my 13th birthday. All of the crazy stunts I tried in our pastures over the next ten yrs... it's a miracle that I never broke any bones 😁😁
Yes sir will I did many jumps off of our trailer ramp placed up against some concrete blocks and could clear a whole country ditch without breaking my stinking neck had a lot of fun Wide World of Sports was great I remembered a Thrill of Agony in the Victory of Defeet. hahaha Keith Jackson and Don McKay Howard Cosell will always live on through the Wide World of Sports and remembering my childhood. Peace
What an awesome time in history. We lived about 2 hours away from the Snake River canyon in twin falls I was a young boy and I begged my mom to take me and my brother to twin falls to see the jump which did not happen but it was incredible still that he made a jump in our state the great state of Idaho.
Yes sir I followed every second of Evel Knievel's career and wound up sharing a hospital room till he got a private room back in '86 but yep good times yeah?
It's 1972, she was there but much younger,yes Kat did a great job narrating sad shame the ladies head got in the way but that's the breaks. Watching Evel jump as a kid was a thrill yeah?
Then you worked for my parents Elden and Lois Haywood and Rod Keller. They ran the concessions for many years. They worked their asses off every Sat and Sun for years.
Good grief that was a huge day for y'all 30,000 fans was at least twice what y'all usually got I'd only been up that way from Central Wisconsin a couple of times and go floating on the Apple River where they had that murder a couple weeks ago but yeah 72 good times huh?
@@feellucky271 I was there. It had to be six times the normal crowd. I was only 11 years old. But I had been to that drag strip many times. It was never anything like that ! Waaaay too many people for that facility to handle.
Nicely put together Kat. This guy is why I lost a front tooth as a kid! Though my Grand Canyon was a ditch and my Harley was my sister's bike complete with front basket! 💪🙈 Best wishes from an Englishman in a French forest. 🇬🇧🏆🇺🇸
Yeah man, amazing thing about America it's Unique that a kid can grow up and become world famous jumping like Evel Knievel did and all us kids doing the same thing on our bikes in the neighborhood watching Wide World of Sports, it was a great time to grow up take care. Peace
My parents brought the family out to see this. I remember it being a hot day. Afterwards exiting was a nightmare, it took over an hour if I remember correctly.
Great film! Granted, Evel did these jumps on a big fat Harley Davidson, but people in the 1970s couldn't imagine the jumps and flips people do on dirt bikes nowadays!
This is back when America was real America and there was respect and dignity among the people.. No cell phones , computers or lunatic liberals to ruin society, just wholesome fun and entertainment..
You might not recognize yourself James we were a lot younger back then at 60 now I can't believe I made it this far cuz I was just as crazy as evil was and even jumped a few motorcycles those were the days our brother take care of yourself Peace
Yes sir I remember it was like yesterday he had Bob Truax build that steam machine that jumped the Snake River and they went through several evolutions of it before they got it right and ended up getting it wrong on the failed jump and what was it 74 or 75 good to see you take care.
Fun to see for me since I'm from Minnesota. I can't believe anyone even SLIGHTLY into cars didn't know about Minnesota Dragways. There was also Twin City Speedway that had an oval dirt track on their property too. Spent many days at both of them. TCS has been closed probably as long as Minnesota Dragways. Fun fact - For a few years, Minnesota Dragways location was used by Yamaha R & D. Twin City Speedway's location is now a trucking/shipping company - BUT the sign (frame only) is still visible by the edge of 35W.
That was cool except for that dude's shoulder! And that it was not a steam powered bike. The Skycycle was steam powered tho. Loved the video and thanks for posting!
Thanks for the info! Yeah I was super bummed that kid stood up in front of the camera at just that moment...ah well. Still wanted to share what footage there was :)
@@jessiehughes9432 Yes sir that would be a Harley Davidson XR750 original designed to race dirt flat track ovals with speeds of 140 mph on a mile straight and 80-90 mph sliding sideways through the corners with no brakes at all .
@@kattingum8274 Thanks for the great narration and taking the time to post it Kat.Was a great video we've all seen him jump so many times that the ladies head doesn't matter it was just great to take a short trip back in time. I'm sure you miss your granddad I bet he was a great guy thanks again for posting it. P.S.The Snake River "bike" Bob Truax designed for Evel was a steam machine but still a great video. Truax and Evel had a falling out and Evel almost went to prison for trying to have Bob killed. I shared a hospital room in '86 with Evel for a short period of time in Florida, he was sadly in bad shape then but he told me a little bit.He was married to some young blonde woman then thank you so very much,take care.
I saw Evel jump 13 cars the following year, October 1973 at Kaukauna Wisconsin. My dad also filmed the jump with a super 8 movie film camera which I still have and is posted somewhere here on TH-cam. He jumped on Saturday and again on Sunday. I was there on Saturday and he successfully jumped 13 cars. the following day, Sunday he crashed on his landing.
My hero!!!! An American icon. Myself? Fast motorcycles, fast women, and I don’t take any shit from anyone.. thanks for being my mentor evil !!!! Love you and Rest In Peace.
Many people had jumped a dirt bike back in the day. Evel was the first to make it a profession. He took it to that level. That's what made him the king.
Odd observation, but true: Note how the people in the audience were, overall, much, much slimmer than the people of today - 50 years later. Makes you wonder what people will be like in 2070!
and people actually watched the event with their eyes and not through a phone camera and did you see the people kneel down so that the ones behind them could see? Ask someone to do that today and just imagine their filthy mouth reply.
Steam powered Harley Davidson? Holly Crap that guy had balls of steel. That had to be a world record for a "Steamer" given how heavy those are with the boiler, the wood and the water and such!
I cant remember what side of 35w the strip was on. Anyway on the east side is a big Wellsfargo building and on the west side are more industrial buildings? What a shame What a loss of great times.
my parents came out one day to the driveway and I was riding my bicycle through the mud puddles that I had poured kerosene in and lit on fire and they said what the hell are you doing I said copying evil oh yeah and they put out my pants cuz after I rode through my bell bottoms were on fire at the bottom
UUMMM was not Minnesota Dragways located in Blaine, where Medtronic is, by 85th and I-35W??? I maybe wrong that was a long time ago, please let me know...
you are thinking of Twin City Speedway which was later known as Northstar Drag Strip. This was at Minnesota Dragways. which was located on what is now Main Street / County Road 14 in Coon Rapids at Avocet St. If you look at an old aerial of MN Dragways you will see the drag strip overlays the current Avocet Street. MN Dragways closed in '76. Next it was owned and used by Yamaha as an R&D site. Early 2000's it was scraped and developed into what is the current 'Wexford' housing development.
@@homefinder57 I remember North Star Drag Strip, when a teen we would go hunting by Coon Lake some where when we would drive by here and slow down on 35W to watch a start, witch was right by the freeway.
@@homefinder57 was there a drag strip in coon rapids been living in MN all my life had a buddy race at north star back in 1981 around that time i think
The night before the jump, Evil had his pilot land his twin engine airplane on the dragstrip. His airplane wound up running into the rear of his big red trailer. Both the truck/trailer and the airplane were parked by the control tower on the Pit side of the track. They were both damaged....but not severely. On the day of the jump...me and some other boys started climbing on the airplane until a man came and yelled at us. It wasn't Evil......just one of his flunkies.
That was his Skycycle X2.....the steam powered rocket that pooped him out over the Snake River...and ya, I grew up with Evel "making me" jump my Yamaha DT 125 over everything in 1971......here in SE Minnesota. Those were the days. 7 Yamahas , two major crashes, and a new wife 20 yrs later made me hang it up for good.
He got a guaranteed amount and then I think it was half of the door admission if I remember right it's been a long time ago and between the specials I've seen in the books I've read if what they said was true. Like most I was a big fan of Evel Knievel growing up being born in 62 I got to watch most of his jumps on Wide World of Sports or cable later on
Thanks to your grandpa Don Kat. Was a nice trip back in time kind of sad he didn't have better position around that lady's head but oh well. Shared a hospital room with Evel til he could get a private room in a Tampa in '86.He was outta steam by then and the booze had eaten his liver up.Taught me to never meet your childhood hero's but nobody can take away what he did.Guy had balls,ambition and inspired a lot of kids my age. Wasn't a steam Harley I'm sure.XR750
Nope 2 different drag strips ! I been to both and the big name racers like Sox and Martin ,Wild Bill maverick of little red wagon fame Jungle Jim and Pam, local legend Tom Hoover Done Garlit's of the swamp rat fame as well as the Army Navy drag tanks the green mamba jet car and all the well known drag racers that were running the circuits all over the nation ran at Minnesota drag ways including Joey Chitwood's dare devil driving team and a host of others I got to see including one guy that would blow himself up in a wood box filled with dynamite which might have been a guy named Wild Bill who had a bar in MN who financed a snowmobile excursion from MN to Russia in the 70s but only made it to green land the one year and had to abandon it on another year which there is a documentary called Wild Bills run that was on PBS and if you look it up you can buy a DVD of it from the guy who did the documentary which I did but this guy Wild Bill used to blow himself up in a wood box filled with dynamite so that very well could have been him back then doing this at Minnesota drag ways but not sure . North Star was more of a none sanctioned track so it was mostly locals and some out of state close by racers drag racing at the strip or the dirt track next to it . My father was a cop for the Mounds view police department and they often got the bids to do the security at North Star and I would get to go with him in the squad car for those nights he worked security at the place and would walk around with him and also watch the races some . At the end of the night when most of the racers and people were gone the owner of the drag strip would let the police cars run the 1/4 mile just to see what kind of times they would run I remember but I don't remember what the ETs we're they were running because it was so long ago it was only 13 at that time. By then Mounds view police cars were running Dodges or Plymouths with the 440 police package engines I remember and before them they used Chevrolet Impala or caprices and before that the black and white Ford Station wagons with the 428 engines I remember because at that time Mounds view didn't have a ambulance so on those calls for a ambulance they would send the squad station wagons to take people to the hospital if needed . The little 3.2 bar as you drove into get to the gate entryway to the drag strip was owned by the Simon's who knew my father for years and one of their sons Mark worked at the 76 gas station on hwy 10 just after the new hwy was put in and he and Denny Ericson both would super tune the squad cars and do maintenance on them way back then . Local Marv Jorgensen also used to frequent the drag strip with his drag motorcycles and would stop in at the bar to drink cheap 3.2 beer and smoke dope in the back while playing pool and got thrown out for doing so by Mark I was told by Mark himself who after my mother and father divorced years later my mother dated and was Marks girlfriend for many years until they both died . The reason why I was on here was because my father and me on the weekends he would have off would go to Minnesota drag ways quite a bit back then and I decided to look to see if any new film footage has popped up and sure enough this came up so I watched it . Years after Minnesota drag ways closed Yamaha R&D bought the land and strip and used it as testing grounds to test the new Yamaha snowmobiles they were designing until they sold that and moved and a developer turned it all into a housing community unfortunately .
1:02 i dont think there has ever been a steam powered harley davidson. idk if you think modern internal combustion engines have a water in the tank but they dont. they are full of petrol. that bike has an internal combustion engine, not a boiler powered steam engine like a train or traction engine (fred dibnah). such a weird think to say and soooo false. i dont think you even noticed but yea. very misleading.
It was an honest mistake Rob,his steam powered machine was was built by Bob Truax and was used at Snake River couple years later.Not weird at all.Her Granddad was there and took this film and must have had the wrong markings on it I think he took film also of the Snake River jump but it was an honest mistake on Kat's part.
I was there and sat on thr grass right next to the strip. I was only 11 and it was totally not safe for me to sit there when the cars were racing but I drank from the garden hose back then too.
Yes, the machine Bob Truax built for the Snake River jump was the steam powered one and she just made a mistake when uploading this video of her Grandad's.
Man, all that buildup and then someone stands in front of the camera right as he goes off the ramp lmao. Some things never change.
That’s really cool footage, I’m glad that was found. Especially as someone that lives just up the road in Champlin and never knew Evil did a stunt so close. Hell I never even knew there was a dragway around here!
Just thinking the same thing, never fails, there’s always that guy.
@ 70s funny Car Drivers , Good Showmanship.
No cell phones, no texing, no social media. Just a fun weekend, outdoors, enjoying the moment. I miss those.
Me too..
Still achievable
Do you also miss the world before the invention of the wheel?
drafted sent to viet nam.(not me) not good for everybody
Says the man using his mobile phone or tablet 🙄
Thanks for uploading. Your Grandfather could never imagine how many people will eventually see this.
See what ????
This is one of the truest statements ever
Thanks for sharing this
I am a face in the crowd!
I was there at 6:45am in the pits with my cousin Dale and Sandy Meyer and son Chris. Dale raced a green GTX and Sandy raced a Road Runner. Chris and I walked the pits and at the end of the strip was Evel’s semi and trailer that was awesome no one would come out probably sleeping still it was early. After the jump I was on the track right next to Evel and my cousin Kim and Bridgette got a hug from him. Awesome day I will never forget
I think you can see dales car in this video or no that wasn't it at 0:12 mark I can't see well to make out body style of that shell looks like a mach1 mustang shell or a gtx can't tell don't have my glasses on lol
Was that green GTX, the :
MONEY CAR?
We always loved that car.
I was there that day....I was 11 years old.
Also had long lost funny cars and a bunch of other lost local drag racers in this footage. Thanks for sharing.
OMG! I was there with a friend. I still have an original Polaroid of Evel mid air!
This is incredible footage, thank you for posting this!!
OMG..... this fantastic footage! Thanks so much for sharing ❤️
Great video and memories. It’s said that the best camera is the one you have with you. Very easy to take photos and video today. Your Granddad did a great job. Thanks for sharing !
IKR
It's really great that we can see history like this on video!!
The 'steam powered motorcycle' and referring to the Dodge Sportsman Vans as 'Buses' mistakes were the icing on the cake of this iconic piece of Daredevil Show entertainment we used to have. Those truly were the good old days!
I had to listen to steam powered Harley a few times I thought my hearing was off. The Skycycle was steam powered. I think the Harleys were usually XR750s. Gas powered.
@@billmiller7138 yes, he never jumped a steam powerd motorcycle.
@@Steve.Cutler The SkyCycle that Bob Truax designed with steam but this Harley XR is not.
@@Steve.Cutler He drove it up and down the track that day
Good stuff! Thanks for the video, Kat. It must have been a blast to be there on that hot summer day.
I remember watching Knievel, on Wild World of Sports, when I was growing up. His jump attempts inspired 12 yr old me, to beg (& convince) my parents to buy me a motorcycle for my 13th birthday.
All of the crazy stunts I tried in our pastures over the next ten yrs... it's a miracle that I never broke any bones 😁😁
I did exactly the same thing !
@@stevepasha9668 😎
Did the same thing on my Schwinn Scrambler...longest jump was 5-6 garbage cans.lol.
Yes sir will I did many jumps off of our trailer ramp placed up against some concrete blocks and could clear a whole country ditch without breaking my stinking neck had a lot of fun Wide World of Sports was great I remembered a Thrill of Agony in the Victory of Defeet. hahaha Keith Jackson and Don McKay Howard Cosell will always live on through the Wide World of Sports and remembering my childhood. Peace
From all of the "Everything Evel" fans on Facebook, THANK YOU!!!
Thank you so much for putting that out i loved watching evil jump.
Yes sir made for a great childhood yeah we did some crazy crap.
What an awesome time in history.
We lived about 2 hours away from the Snake River canyon in twin falls I was a young boy and I begged my mom to take me and my brother to twin falls to see the jump which did not happen but it was incredible still that he made a jump in our state the great state of Idaho.
Yes sir I followed every second of Evel Knievel's career and wound up sharing a hospital room till he got a private room back in '86 but yep good times yeah?
That Snake River fiasco was so disappointing!
Thank you for sharing this. Your grandfather was lucky to film this. 1976,, I bet you weren't even born yet. Great clip thank you again
It's 1972, she was there but much younger,yes Kat did a great job narrating sad shame the ladies head got in the way but that's the breaks.
Watching Evel jump as a kid was a thrill yeah?
I was 16 years old, working in the Concession Stand on the Spectator side that day. Worked my ass off...I think we ran out of almost everything
I used to collect all the free stickers
Then you worked for my parents Elden and Lois Haywood and Rod Keller. They ran the concessions for many years. They worked their asses off every Sat and Sun for years.
Good grief that was a huge day for y'all 30,000 fans was at least twice what y'all usually got I'd only been up that way from Central Wisconsin a couple of times and go floating on the Apple River where they had that murder a couple weeks ago but yeah 72 good times huh?
@@feellucky271
I was there. It had to be six times the normal crowd.
I was only 11 years old.
But I had been to that drag strip many times.
It was never anything like that !
Waaaay too many people for that facility to handle.
@@jstravelers4094 Very cool.
I was a bit younger too.
Was born in '62.
Good to see you Js.
Great camera work, Grandpa! Great commentary work, grandchild!
I was there, 9 years old , been waiting so long to see footage of this day, thank you for sharing it.
Me and my best friend were there, I was 10 and he was 9 my big brother brought us there for our birthday's.
It was amazing.
Awesome. I had never seen any footage of this event before. Thank you for posting this! Never missed the guy on abc's Wild World of Sports.
Her Granddad sure seems like a cool person even know the woman's had blocked it I enjoyed seeing the footage. Take care
Watching Evel jump live is something you'll never forget, LEGENDARY.
Yessir
Nicely put together Kat.
This guy is why I lost a front tooth as a kid!
Though my Grand Canyon was a ditch and my Harley was my sister's bike complete with front basket! 💪🙈
Best wishes from an Englishman in a French forest. 🇬🇧🏆🇺🇸
Great classic footage, thanks!
Thank you for sharing this, even though I wasn't there that day, I was there often as a teen, great memories
The Elvis of Stuntmen 😎
Evel was da man. Fearless. Had a Huffy Thunder bicycle and tried imitating as a kid
Yeah man, amazing thing about America it's Unique that a kid can grow up and become world famous jumping like Evel Knievel did and all us kids doing the same thing on our bikes in the neighborhood watching Wide World of Sports, it was a great time to grow up take care.
Peace
Really cool historical video!
Makes me want to go find where the old track was.
242 and hanson blvd.It became a Yamaha test track after the strip closed down.
My parents brought the family out to see this. I remember it being a hot day. Afterwards exiting was a nightmare, it took over an hour if I remember correctly.
Great film! Granted, Evel did these jumps on a big fat Harley Davidson, but people in the 1970s couldn't imagine the jumps and flips people do on dirt bikes nowadays!
This is back when America was real America and there was respect and dignity among the people.. No cell phones , computers or lunatic liberals to ruin society, just wholesome fun and entertainment..
Evil could not stand The Hell's Angels , that is a good enough reason for me to like Evil .
@@Jay-vr9ir Evel wasn't evil.
hellstorm....yr RIGHT
Vietnam, hippies, Hells Angels, and black panthers. This is the wholesomeness I remember.
Lunatic liberals? They’re not the ones talking about deep state elite satanic baby blood traffic? Seems like you see it reverse of what I see
That rear wheel flex was wild. Great landing
I was one of those guys standing on Evel's right as he jumped.. I tried to pick myself out of the crowd, but couldn't find me.
You might not recognize yourself James we were a lot younger back then at 60 now I can't believe I made it this far cuz I was just as crazy as evil was and even jumped a few motorcycles those were the days our brother take care of yourself
Peace
Thank you for this
Old school. I love it
Did she say "steam powered Harley Davidson"?
Great film! Loved it.
Dudes I remember being there like it was yesterday!!!
I noticed at 1:23 the bus advertises the Snake River Canyon jump (Oct 1974) was he promoting this jump more than 2 years in advance?
Yes sir I remember it was like yesterday he had Bob Truax build that steam machine that jumped the Snake River and they went through several evolutions of it before they got it right and ended up getting it wrong on the failed jump and what was it 74 or 75 good to see you take care.
The Harley Davidson wasn't steam powered!
Steam powered! LOL
It was a coal burner. My uncle Steve was the guy that loaded the coal before the jump.
The Snake River rocket was steam powered… and that didn’t go so well.
I thought it was electric...😆
Biden did that!
I was in the stands that day. 16 Funny Cars and Evel Kneivel. With my dad and brother.
Cool Curt.
Fun to see for me since I'm from Minnesota. I can't believe anyone even SLIGHTLY into cars didn't know about Minnesota Dragways. There was also Twin City Speedway that had an oval dirt track on their property too. Spent many days at both of them. TCS has been closed probably as long as Minnesota Dragways. Fun fact - For a few years, Minnesota Dragways location was used by Yamaha R & D. Twin City Speedway's location is now a trucking/shipping company - BUT the sign (frame only) is still visible by the edge of 35W.
That was awesome video I love the race cars the why that guy have to stay in up in front of us right when he jumped LOL thank you for posting
I was there. Can't recall if I paid in or snuck in.
Used to sneak into the pits through the woods all the time when I was young. Grew up 2 miles away.
That was cool except for that dude's shoulder! And that it was not a steam powered bike. The Skycycle was steam powered tho. Loved the video and thanks for posting!
Thanks for the info! Yeah I was super bummed that kid stood up in front of the camera at just that moment...ah well. Still wanted to share what footage there was :)
I'm the guy that stood up ..
Lol just kidding..
@@tiger.6509 It was a V Twin Harley motor,not a 4 cylinder!
@@jessiehughes9432 Yes sir that would be a Harley Davidson XR750 original designed to race dirt flat track ovals with speeds of 140 mph on a mile straight and 80-90 mph sliding sideways through the corners with no brakes at all .
@@kattingum8274 Thanks for the great narration and taking the time to post it Kat.Was a great video we've all seen him jump so many times that the ladies head doesn't matter it was just great to take a short trip back in time. I'm sure you miss your granddad I bet he was a great guy thanks again for posting it.
P.S.The Snake River "bike" Bob Truax designed for Evel was a steam machine but still a great video.
Truax and Evel had a falling out and Evel almost went to prison for trying to have Bob killed. I shared a hospital room in '86 with Evel for a short period of time in Florida, he was sadly in bad shape then but he told me a little bit.He was married to some young blonde woman then thank you so very much,take care.
I saw Evel jump 13 cars the following year, October 1973 at Kaukauna Wisconsin. My dad also filmed the jump with a super 8 movie film camera which I still have and is posted somewhere here on TH-cam. He jumped on Saturday and again on Sunday. I was there on Saturday and he successfully jumped 13 cars. the following day, Sunday he crashed on his landing.
3 months before I was born that's awesome
My hero!!!! An American icon. Myself? Fast motorcycles, fast women, and I don’t take any shit from anyone.. thanks for being my mentor evil !!!! Love you and Rest In Peace.
That was seriously badass
You can tell this is an old video. The camera person is content to stay behind the camera.
Many people had jumped a dirt bike back in the day. Evel was the first to make it a profession.
He took it to that level. That's what made him the king.
Odd observation, but true: Note how the people in the audience were, overall, much, much slimmer than the people of today - 50 years later. Makes you wonder what people will be like in 2070!
capitalism
and people actually watched the event with their eyes and not through a phone camera and did you see the people kneel down so that the ones behind them could see? Ask someone to do that today and just imagine their filthy mouth reply.
@@bradleycrenshaw6778 shutup boomer. Not everyone is a jerk. You need to loosen up.
It is 1970's Minnesota, hence all the (natural) blonde people in the crowd.
@@ryanjacobson2508 It was definitely a better time!
It's hard to explain to people who grew up with the internet what a big deal TV events like this were.
Steam powered Harley Davidson? Holly Crap that guy had balls of steel. That had to be a world record for a "Steamer" given how heavy those are with the boiler, the wood and the water and such!
I cant remember what side of 35w the strip was on.
Anyway on the east side is a big Wellsfargo building and on the west side are more industrial buildings? What a shame
What a loss of great times.
IKR
Miss it alot.
I miss Evel Knievel and drag racing tracks.
Judging by his wardrobe, he must've been a big fan of Elvis!
Definitely had to be some crossover there but it wasn't a bad thing for sure it's a cool look and they were very heavy leathers. Take care
Who told you his Harley was STEAM POWERED? NO ONE ELSE CAUGHT THAT MISTAKE? A STEAM POWERED HARLEY...WTF!!!!
It was an honest mistake the steam-powered machine built by Bob Truax was used 2 years later for the Snake River jump.
Dad had one job in life that day; to successfully capture the jump on film.
I remember being there when I was a little kid it was a good show
my parents came out one day to the driveway and I was riding my bicycle through the mud puddles that I had poured kerosene in and lit on fire and they said what the hell are you doing I said copying evil oh yeah and they put out my pants cuz after I rode through my bell bottoms were on fire at the bottom
Ha ha ha
Had a few go rounds w my folks with crazy shit too.ha
this man is one of those who should stay forgotten he never should of had any fame for such small things that any nerd could do
Spent a lot of time at Minnesota Dragways. Those were the days.
Was a great drag strip I made many runs there only living 70 Miles away
UUMMM was not Minnesota Dragways located in Blaine, where Medtronic is, by 85th and I-35W??? I maybe wrong that was a long time ago, please let me know...
you are thinking of Twin City Speedway which was later known as Northstar Drag Strip. This was at Minnesota Dragways. which was located on what is now Main Street / County Road 14 in Coon Rapids at Avocet St. If you look at an old aerial of MN Dragways you will see the drag strip overlays the current Avocet Street. MN Dragways closed in '76. Next it was owned and used by Yamaha as an R&D site. Early 2000's it was scraped and developed into what is the current 'Wexford' housing development.
@@homefinder57 I remember North Star Drag Strip, when a teen we would go hunting by Coon Lake some where when we would drive by here and slow down on 35W to watch a start, witch was right by the freeway.
Big Coon Lake@@MrBobity Evil had an amazing Chiddingfold, Chidleswick, Chipendale, Choppington Chopper Baby !! 0️⃣🖕1️⃣
@@homefinder57 was there a drag strip in coon rapids been living in MN all my life had a buddy race at north star back in 1981 around that time i think
You so wrong i lived next to it
I've always wondered did evil have a opening act or just jump and go home.
Good ol ‘days!❤️❤️❤️🏁
Notice all the people not wearing shorts on this hot summer day!
Was this the jump that Evels rented lear jet crashed in to Evels trailer when landing on dragstrip?
I was there no jet he had small twin prop
That was Cool
Thank you
Spoiler alert: If you came here looking to see a jump, your hopes are about to be spoiled.
You see the jump, you don't get to see the landing.
@@brianwinter4019 some people like this dude just got to be dicks don't they Brian? it was cool just to see the footage of evil back from 72.
At 1:00 , A steam powered Harly Davidson ? What ??
He rode his jet bike around.. don't recall any steam.
I was there that day too
me too, for my 12th birthday
@@cheaptick Cool.
Cool I remember that day
Did she say steam powered?
Always someone stands & blocks your view! What the couldn’t see when they were sitting?
Thanks
I was there!
So cool!
Amazing that his Harley could jump that far with the weight of his huge balls.
Whole crowd was calm and well-behaved. Imagine if this happened today…
Steam powered? You are confusing his xr750 with the snake river rocket.
Kay, why did you say the bike was “steam powered”????
I loved the video other than that. Thank you.
Good to see that photographers, even way back in 1972 missed the money shot too!😂😂😂
Awesome to see
Notice the drag cars are spinning ALL the way down!?! Now the thing is traction even with 10,000 HP!!🏍😎
awesome
Did you say a steam powered Harley Davidson?
The night before the jump, Evil had his pilot land his twin engine airplane on the dragstrip. His airplane wound up running into the rear of his big red trailer.
Both the truck/trailer and the airplane were parked by the control tower on the Pit side of the track.
They were both damaged....but not severely.
On the day of the jump...me and some other boys started climbing on the airplane until a man came and yelled at us.
It wasn't Evil......just one of his flunkies.
1:00 Did You say Steam Powered Harley Davidson ? Gasoline Powered . The Snake River jump is the only time Ever Knievel used Steam Power .
Right.
That was his Skycycle X2.....the steam powered rocket that pooped him out over the Snake River...and ya, I grew up with Evel "making me" jump my Yamaha DT 125 over everything in 1971......here in SE Minnesota. Those were the days. 7 Yamahas , two major crashes, and a new wife 20 yrs later made me hang it up for good.
did i hear her say steam powered motorcycle
how much did evel knievel make for the jump in this video?
$78.50
And all the hot dogs he could eat
He got a guaranteed amount and then I think it was half of the door admission if I remember right it's been a long time ago and between the specials I've seen in the books I've read if what they said was true. Like most I was a big fan of Evel Knievel growing up being born in 62 I got to watch most of his jumps on Wide World of Sports or cable later on
Thanks to your grandpa Don Kat. Was a nice trip back in time kind of sad he didn't have better position around that lady's head but oh well.
Shared a hospital room with Evel til he could get a private room in a Tampa in '86.He was outta steam by then and the booze had eaten his liver up.Taught me to never meet your childhood hero's but nobody can take away what he did.Guy had balls,ambition and inspired a lot of kids my age.
Wasn't a steam Harley I'm sure.XR750
I thought that was moundsview,,,northstar dragway
Nope 2 different drag strips ! I been to both and the big name racers like Sox and Martin ,Wild Bill maverick of little red wagon fame Jungle Jim and Pam, local legend Tom Hoover Done Garlit's of the swamp rat fame as well as the Army Navy drag tanks the green mamba jet car and all the well known drag racers that were running the circuits all over the nation ran at Minnesota drag ways including Joey Chitwood's dare devil driving team and a host of others I got to see including one guy that would blow himself up in a wood box filled with dynamite which might have been a guy named Wild Bill who had a bar in MN who financed a snowmobile excursion from MN to Russia in the 70s but only made it to green land the one year and had to abandon it on another year which there is a documentary called Wild Bills run that was on PBS and if you look it up you can buy a DVD of it from the guy who did the documentary which I did but this guy Wild Bill used to blow himself up in a wood box filled with dynamite so that very well could have been him back then doing this at Minnesota drag ways but not sure . North Star was more of a none sanctioned track so it was mostly locals and some out of state close by racers drag racing at the strip or the dirt track next to it . My father was a cop for the Mounds view police department and they often got the bids to do the security at North Star and I would get to go with him in the squad car for those nights he worked security at the place and would walk around with him and also watch the races some . At the end of the night when most of the racers and people were gone the owner of the drag strip would let the police cars run the 1/4 mile just to see what kind of times they would run I remember but I don't remember what the ETs we're they were running because it was so long ago it was only 13 at that time. By then Mounds view police cars were running Dodges or Plymouths with the 440 police package engines I remember and before them they used Chevrolet Impala or caprices and before that the black and white Ford Station wagons with the 428 engines I remember because at that time Mounds view didn't have a ambulance so on those calls for a ambulance they would send the squad station wagons to take people to the hospital if needed . The little 3.2 bar as you drove into get to the gate entryway to the drag strip was owned by the Simon's who knew my father for years and one of their sons Mark worked at the 76 gas station on hwy 10 just after the new hwy was put in and he and Denny Ericson both would super tune the squad cars and do maintenance on them way back then . Local Marv Jorgensen also used to frequent the drag strip with his drag motorcycles and would stop in at the bar to drink cheap 3.2 beer and smoke dope in the back while playing pool and got thrown out for doing so by Mark I was told by Mark himself who after my mother and father divorced years later my mother dated and was Marks girlfriend for many years until they both died . The reason why I was on here was because my father and me on the weekends he would have off would go to Minnesota drag ways quite a bit back then and I decided to look to see if any new film footage has popped up and sure enough this came up so I watched it . Years after Minnesota drag ways closed Yamaha R&D bought the land and strip and used it as testing grounds to test the new Yamaha snowmobiles they were designing until they sold that and moved and a developer turned it all into a housing community unfortunately .
1:02 i dont think there has ever been a steam powered harley davidson. idk if you think modern internal combustion engines have a water in the tank but they dont. they are full of petrol. that bike has an internal combustion engine, not a boiler powered steam engine like a train or traction engine (fred dibnah). such a weird think to say and soooo false. i dont think you even noticed but yea. very misleading.
It was an honest mistake Rob,his steam powered machine was was built by Bob Truax and was used at Snake River couple years later.Not weird at all.Her Granddad was there and took this film and must have had the wrong markings on it I think he took film also of the Snake River jump but it was an honest mistake on Kat's part.
I was there and sat on thr grass right next to the strip. I was only 11 and it was totally not safe for me to sit there when the cars were racing but I drank from the garden hose back then too.
I’m sorry. Did you say that was a steam powered Harley Davidson? LOL! This is a great find. Thank you for sharing.
It was a great find wasn't it yeah miss tingum knows it wasn't steam powered now but it was an honest mistake ha ha
She said steam powered Harley? Is there such a thing? So his bike ran on coal not gas. I'm so confused why she said that.
Yes, the machine Bob Truax built for the Snake River jump was the steam powered one and she just made a mistake when uploading this video of her Grandad's.
His Harley was NOT steam powered!