A Lincoln??? Wasn't there anything more aerodynamic back in 79???? Maybe a 77 Monza or Sumtin??

I'm speechless. Who in their right mind would think a 1979 Continental would make a good flying object? Now you know...the rest of the story.

At the risk of upsetting my fellow Jalops and Canucks...

Darwinism at its finest.

Huh...
I had seen this video before, but had always thought that it was a cleverly cgi'd video...

Nuckin' Futs...

Nobody ever says anything about what happened to the 6 illegal aliens stuffed in the trunk.

Can we get a Jalop screening of "Devil at your Heels" anytime soon??

Fizicks are hard.

So what about the guy who got the landing ramp in his face? How did that one turn out?

@workingonyourinvoice: Exactly what I am wondering...

How come these flying cars always look so nose-heavy? It's like there is something way heavy in the front and nothing to balance it out in the back.

When someone asks what "epic hoonage" is, I'll have to show them this video.

And much like Icarus before it, the Lincoln flew too close to the sun and was thus destroyed.....

Dear lord those first 2 crashes were brutal.

@workingonyourinvoice:
"That'll buff right out"

I was most intrigued by the sudden amount of lift shown at booster flame out. One may want a bit more wing next time... Oh, Never Mind.....

"Darwinism at its finest."
@FLB:

Damn straight. He got passed Mr. Darwins waiting room on that one.

Those little stubby wings ripped right off. What held them on, pop-rivets? I could do better with plywood and epoxy.

Im not a physics major, so could someone explain why each time the Lincoln seemed to disintegrate in mid air? Was it designed to do that or what?

@CEman: The truck, maybe. His face, not so much...

1:43 - LOL. What an HDH. Huge Dildo Hoon.

I think I prefer the surreal soundtrack to the hyper-dramatic tone of the original broadcast.

Still blows my mind that they though the Lincoln would fly.

For all the effort that went into putting a rocket into it and building a massive ramp, you'd think someone would've at least done a little testing.

Although the attached winglets suggest there was an aerodynamics assignee...unfortunately it was a 12 year old.

@Corvette_Thunder: I think... and dont quote me as I am also no engineer or physicist either... that it was due to the fact that he was going One Hundred Million Miles per Hour...

Damn, he must have lost a couple chicklets during the one crash that lands him into the back of the ramp.. it looked like it went right throw the windsheild.

It's amazing the courage when you get a couple Labatt Blues in ya.

@Sth002000: Yea, it's called a motor.

@terraform: Except this one probably did't have a motor up front.

(rocket car = rocket in the back)

@terraform: nice work... one of the few comments that made me literally laugh out loud..

@Mad_Science:
I'm assuming he's talking about the truck jumps... the nose of the rocket doesn't head downward until it's in pieces.

@terraform: Ah...details.

Yeah, it takes a lot to make a car jump flat. You'll notice Baja trucks do their best to set the motor farther back (some are mid-engine), or at least throw as much weight as far back as possible.

@Mad_Science: Yup. If I remember correctly, they had to load up the trunk of the general lee with a crazy amount of sand bags to keep those jumps looking legit.

@Mad_Science: Yup. And the general lee was loaded to the gills with sandbags to keep those jumps looking legit, too.

Gawker websites, you kill me.

@terraform: @terraform: ... Deja Vu means there has been a glitch in the Matrix...

This is what happens when Medical Insurance is free.

@workingonyourinvoice: @Ω βгåғғ™ ۞: I recognize the video that this came from. It was part of the Faces of Death video series. So in answer to the results of the truck jump, it ended about as bad as you can imagine.

The moron in the Lincoln did escape, though. He had a hatch constructed in the roof.

Damn, that truck hit the landing ramp right at the bottom of the A pillar, pretty much at the top 1/2 of the steering wheel, or right square in the mouth.

The race track jump was almost equally stupid, just feet away from all the people standing in the pits. Clear that wall and a whole bunch of people are gonna be taken out. Looks like that jump was done at the old Ontario Motor Speedway, very close to the current California Speedway.

The rocket car jump defies my wertsmithing abilities.

@SundaySunday: HA... my father rented that for a few friends and I, back in high school... he got a few angry calls from some loser parents...

waaah... my kid just watched someone get hit by a train right into a camera... waah...

This has Herb Tarlek written all over it.

@nosirrahg: Great, a WKRP in Cincinnati reference... Good One.

@Corvette_Thunder: My bet, is that since the bottom of the engine bay is wide open, and that year, the panels were just held on by a few bolts, the air pressure on the underside of the vehicle as it fell sheered the sheet metal around the bolts. Normally, next to the asphalt, there would be low pressure there, not high.

He had the thrust, but absolutely no concept of aerodynamics.

Kind of like a little stud weiner dog trying to mount a great dane bitch. The enthusiasm is commendable, but predictably nonproductive.

@DoctorNine:

My dachshund doesn't understand the mechanics...

Ken Carter was a legend. How he completed any of his stunts is a complete mystery as they appear to have been developed on a single napkin in a bar whilst drunk.

I doubt they took any measurements at all, never mind applied general physics to the situation

Ya gotta love that takeoff, though. With a few mods, you'd have a hell of a theme park ride here. Acme theme.
Paging Wile E. Coyote. Mr. Coyote, your ride is here.

What made him think something shaped like the Parthenon, and nearly as heavy, would make for a good projectile? Did Lincoln sponsor this? Looks like he might have gone a good bit farther if he just duct-taped the gaps, and balasted the car properly. Those lil wings ripped off the car the second it went airborne. At first i thought he was brilliant, and this would be used to adjust the angle of the car as it soared through the air. Then i realized this guy is just a Canadian retard.

@UDMan: "With God as my witness, I thought Lincolns could fly."

Wuts with all the parachutes ruining these massive jump attempts? Same thing happened to Evel Kneivel's Snake River Canyon Jump. No more parachutes!!!

@Mad_Science:

Still blows my mind that they though the Lincoln would fly.

I don't think they expected it to fly just fall gracefully.

It failed...

@Uncle_Bo:

The race track jump was almost equally stupid, just feet away from all the people standing in the pits.

No, that's just the way it was then. Lawyers hadn't figured out how to chase ambulences yet.

It's not a '79 Continental. It's a 1974-76 Mark IV. Which is an equally dumb thing to turn into a missile. The amount of sheet metal that came off the car the moment it became airborne is astounding. Of course, it also looks like there was very little actual Mark IV under the skin; who knows how well the body panels were attached to the different structure. And, maybe some of the panels were fiberglass replicas? Note how the drivers door looks like it cleanly sheared off a bit more than halfway back, without bending.

You Imbeciles! It needs zee vings to fly to Ahhmerrika!

Man, it's a good thing he had those stabilizers.

I remember seeing this on That's Incredible! when I was a youngster.

I don't recall my reaction then - but seeing it again, when that fantastic Malaise Missile clears the ramp and all the bodywork is torn off like God just fired up his leaf blower, well, I laughed my ass off!

And didn't really stop chuckling about it until the next day...

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