A Farewell To A Daredevil

[cabinetman]

News today about the passing of Evel Knievel. One tough guy.
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[parnelli]

When I was growing up I had a metal Evel Knievel lunchbox. At school we ate on the stage in the gym and after we were done I'd face the picture the correct direction and repeatedly kick it off the stage onto the gym floor below. After the correct amount of 'revving the engine' of course.

I remember the lunchbox getting all dented up, but as an adult I wonder what I must've been doing to that poor wooden floor all those days...

[Pappy]

A sad thing for me to read. He was one of the wheeled legends that came from my youth, along with names like Arfons, Breedlove, and Garlits. Others have, and will, jumped farther and higher on 2 wheels that Kneivel did. None of them will do it with anything close to the same flair of the original daredevil.

[Hoyden]

I m from Twin Falls Idaho and people around here have mixed feelings about the man. A definite self promoter always on the edge of breaking the law. As such a western icon of the raise your self by your own bootstraps "John Wayne" style. He did put Twin Falls and the Snake River on the map. His type always leave a hole that is hard to replace.