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Matt McGrain
 Post subject: 171 foot jump by Ken Block
PostPosted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:39 am 
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Apparently on Discovery's Stunt Junkies STI's now fly. :lol:

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2rWx0zcvM
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I've been waiting for this episode of SJ to air. I guess I may have missed this one.

Thanks for the link.

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Impressive how flat the car stayed through the flight. Most car jumps "nose over" pretty quickly.

As we all know jumping isn't too hard, landing however is the killer.

Niiiiice!

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Discovery Channel shows 1 rebroadcast left:

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@ 11:00 PM Stunt Junkies: Go Big or Go Home Rally Car Jump

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As an aside, that's Tarheel member Bob Wall's old '02 PGT car. Ken bought it from him and now uses it as a "spare"/fun car. Must be nice to have a professionally built and maintained PGT legal rally car as a spare...

--Kevin H.

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Carl Fisher
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Kevin Hoff wrote:
As an aside, that's Tarheel member Bob Wall's old '02 PGT car. Ken bought it from him and now uses it as a "spare"/fun car. Must be nice to have a professionally built and maintained PGT legal rally car as a spare...

--Kevin H.

Oh yeah, that's right! So that means I've ridden in the car that did the 171 foot rally car jump! :P

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Carl Fisher wrote:
I've ridden in the car that did the 171 foot rally car jump! :P


Would you *want* to ride along *during* that jump? Not me! That landing looked pretty harsh.

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Vincent Keene wrote:
Carl Fisher wrote:
I've ridden in the car that did the 171 foot rally car jump! :P


Would you *want* to ride along *during* that jump? Not me! That landing looked pretty harsh.

That's a good question. It sure looked like fun, except for that flat landing. :crazy: My back and neck are already screwed up enough, I really don't need to go out making them worse. But I'd be sorely :P tempted.

I think if I'd been there at the time, after the first jump but before the 2nd, with all my gear (and a HANS device) and Ken had said "Hop in for the big ride", I would have.

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