What Hollywood Stuntmen Can Teach You About Surviving The Apocalypse

Surviving the apocalypse could come down to a single car chase, or a long war with mutant bikers. Sam Sheridan spent three years training for armageddon for his book Disaster Diaries: How I learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Apocalypse and explains how he learned to prepare with help from Hollywood's stunt drivers.

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Why is Spiderman jumping between these speeding BMWs?

This bizarre photo's been floating around for a while, but was recently reposted on Facebook by Arab Motors TV. What's its deal? Obviously it's not the real Spiderman, because he's in New York City. So it's just a stunt double. Makes sense. It's for a stunt show.

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The Chitwoods: Father, Sons and a Jet-Powered Pickup

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Our buddy Matt offers some updates and corrections on a post we did a week or so ago on legendary automotive daredevil, Joie Chitwood, who died in 1988. It seems we credited Joie senior with some deeds of his equally talented (and adrenalin-mastering) brood. For one, the record for driving on two wheels (5.6 miles in…

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Joie Freakin' Chitwood!

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When learning to drive, our dad often referred to us as either "Mario Andretti" or "Joie Chit." We once mentioned this to Mario and he smiled and laughed politely. We then realized that Mario has probably heard this literally thousands of times. You whippersnappers of course know Mario, but do you remember Joie? Dirt…

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Make Good Money and Destroy Vehicles: Six-Figure Stunt Drivers

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What young boy doesn't want to be a stunt driver at some point? Having grown up in an era of flying second-and- third generation Trans Ams and orange Chargers, we dreamed of the day we'd fly through the air in a 1980 Corvette with the Unocal 76 logo painted on the hood, maybe even leaping through a hoop of fire like a …

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