Jalopnik: jumps

Buick LeSabre Gets Massive Air, Doesn't Float

Ray Wert — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:30:00 EDT

Although non-turbocharged Buicks are normally more well known for floatin' than flyin', here's a hoon in a Buick LeSabre showing why he's driving the first class of air class. [via Banovsky]

Classic Hoon Of The Day: The Greatest Jump Ken Carter Never Made

Matt Hardigree — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:40:00 EDT

The video above video, which we've shown you before, takes a little explanation but, for the uninitiated, it is well worth it. Ken Carter was the great Canadian stunt driver who, initially, undertook the usual types of challenges that you see here in the beginning of this clip. Eventually, he decided he wanted to make one great memorable rocket-powered jump over the St. Lawrence Seaway from Canada into the United States, a distance of nearly a mile. There are numerous attempts to get the funding, the weather and the materials to work. After years he think he's got his jump ready in a 1979 Lincoln Continental in an attempt weirdly similar to The Ramp BMW documentary. Things don't go right and he aborts five second before take-off.

He retreats to his hotel for nine days. The crew, afraid of losing more money, convinces a friend of Carter's to make the jump without Carter's knowledge. The results were disastrous as the car didn't get the speed it needed. The driver survived, but Carter died months later in another stunt before completing this stunt. (h/t Braff) [Youtube, StuntDriver1.com]

Dukes of Hazzard: Subaru Snow Day Edition

Travis Hudson — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:45:00 EST

If only it snowed more down in Hazzard County, Georgia, I'm sure the Duke Boys would have had as much fun as these chaps did in this Subaru. This car was supposedly bought with the sole intention of performing a 68-foot snow jump. Mission accomplished! The little-Subie-that-could manages to gain some air time and doesn't kill anyone. Cooter would have been impressed. Them Subies, them Subies... Who needs a freaking '69 Charger named after a defeated Virginian militarist, anyway? [MySpaceTV]

Uff Da! Minnesota Workplace Hoonage!

Murilee Martin — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 13:10:43 EST

It's always fun doing your hoonage when you're on The Man's clock; most of us have had some fun times with forklift races, delivery-truck donuts, etc. But when you're doing it as part of your job- in this case, to advertise St. Paul's Apex Auto Salvage- well, that takes it to a whole new level. Imagine it- a runner shows up at the yard and the call goes out to set up the ramp! Here's a flat-tired Maxima getting some decent air. But wait, there's more...

Here's Gabe getting some five-star hang-time in a mid-80s Celica.

And, since you have a big forklift, might as well use it on the Celica!

And, saving the best for last, Tom and Tony are co-winners of the Workplace Hoon Of The Week Award with this spectacular Dodge Kustom Van leap. Note how Gabe's Celica is now part of the ramp. Ja, you betcha! – Murilee Martin

Related:
Hoon Of The Day: The VW Hippie Bus Can Jump! [internal]

Need to Lose Your Job? Play This Jeep Game

bwojdyla — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:00:00 EST

Every once in a while, the Internet takes a giant leap forward in its ability to waste my life away. Imagine combining a profound love of Jeeps with the desire to see them pull off Dukes-of-Hazzard-on-acid jumps. Well my friend, that's the idea behind Jeep Flyer. Go ahead, take a furtive stab at a loop-dee-loop, make massive jumps over impossible distances, crash the Jeep into a thorny nest of death spikes and watch the driver fly off into white space — it's only limited by your imagination (and simulated physics). Now that you're hooked, go introduce it to all of your coworkers and enjoy as your office productivity plummets to zero. See you in the unemployment line.– Ben Wojdyla

Jeep Flyer [Hall Pass]