Evel Knievel!

I had a similar video to this one up a couple years ago but I removed it. Not sure why now I don't remember but I decided to make another one with the better copies of the old movies.

I wanted the Evel Knievel stunt bike pretty badly, the TV commercials made it look so great. As you can see advertising is not always 100% truthful. I still had a lot of fun with the Knievel toys. I also had the drag racer which actually did work as advertised.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• evel
• knievel
• stunt
• bike
• scramble
• van
• toys
• birthday
• 1970s
• summer

[BlueFlamingoVlogs]

I think that thing only worked the way it was supposed to... maybe three times?

[TheKiDFoX]

@BlueFlamingoVlogs I have seen vids on youtube of them working very well so I wonder sometimes if we were just no good at setting it up.

I had fun with it anyhow.

[dagocleo]

wow ! remember those toys ! you guys were pretty lucky there !!!

[TheKiDFoX]

@dagocleo I have seen videos of those things working very well, I think we had it set up wrong and never really got how to make it work. I don't know if the stunt bike is still at our parents or not I know the drag racer is. 

I would like to have one of the stunt bikes again one day.

[1DRock37167]

My brother got one of those for Christmas in '77 or '78!

[TheKiDFoX]

@1DRock37167 They were the bomb in the 70s

I saw Robbie Knievel jump 15 trucks and buses at the Iowa State Fair once, it was so much fun for someone who grew up on Evel Knievel.

[Oldbmwr100rs]

The whole SSP line worked well, and could take serious amounts of abuse, toys aren't made like this anymore. The Evil Knievel sets were cool too, he was a real nut, but he was the MAN!

[Brrad424]

It always worked for me. You weren't crankin' the hell out of it like I did.