Riverview Park - FLYING CARS amusement ride - 1954 CHICAGO

The Flying Cars were a German-made ride built for Chicago's great Riverview Park in 1954. Riders were strapped into a small car inside a large rotating barrel. As the barrel would rotate, the riders could use a small foot brake which would allow the car to stop rolling and go a full 360 with the rotating barrel. Sounds fun! Unfortunately, someone failed to properly fasten their safety belt and was killed after falling out. That was the end of the Flying Cars. Sadly, Riverview closed for good in 1967.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Riverview
• Park
• Amusement
• roller
• coaster
• flying
• cars
• carnival
• ride
• chicago
• defunct

[sjtom57]

The legions of lawyers killed all the great old rides. Nice vid.

[AtlantaGymFan]

Oh, how I remember this ride! The first time I went on it I was too short to push down on the brakes, so I just sort of rolled back and forth. I couldn't wait for the next summer when I was taller but ... they had already dismantled this ride. Thanks for the memories!

[churchillstevester1]

Looks safe to me...LOL!

[tenterden16]

How about rebuilding one for the future Dreamland Heritage Amusement Park in Margate Kent ?

[Fender1980]

My dad went on this ride as a kid in the 50s. His cousin "Big Joe" cluck-clucked and refused to get on the ride.

[staunchcharacter]

Sweeeet, swampfoxer - I never knew such a thing existed! Thanks again for such wonderful footage!

[RevieUp]

oh man - LOL - awesome.

[actioncees]

this is so great!

i ride one , more than 30years back in holland

so cool to see this again.

you pull the break and it goes up the barrel.

if you are good in this than release the break while its almost upside-down and the car keep hanging like this. lol ,i had red stripes on my body from hanging a long time upsidedown in the safety belts and there was a guy who could open the safety belt and hang on his car.

thnx4upload.8)

[Jmac0wns]

Yea... They should really rebuild some of the old classic rides like this! Very cool anyways, thanks for sharing! Id love to see even more if you have any!