
Way back in 1976, a desperate Hollywood producer had the great idea of putting together a spectacular stunt involving Ken Carter, where he would attempt to jump a rocket powered Lincoln Continental over the St. Lawrence River in New York, attempting to land over one mile away, safely of course. During the first attempt, there appeared to be some mechanical failure, at which point it seems that Ken Carter realized he’d basically be committing suicide. After repeated attempts to get Carter to retry the stunt, the producers of the stunt secretly got Carter’s friend Ken Powers to take his place. Without Carter’s knowledge, the stunt began with Powers behind the wheel, shocking Carter who was on-site and reportedly enraged at the decision. Needless to say the stunt was a MAJOR success, Powers didn’t die, though he didn’t really make it far in the first place. A few years later, Powers *would* however die when making another attempt at this same stunt, when he landed upside-down and was crushed to death by the Pontiac Firebird’s roof.
Watch the uncomfortable carnage after the jump..
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