- This page is about the automobile sport. For the 1957 film starring Stanley Baker, see Hell Drivers (film)
Wednesay night racing returned in 1974, in addition to Saturdays. Special features in those years included demolition derbies, stuntman Ken Carter, The Trans-Canada Hell Drivers, the Can-Am TQ Midgets, media races and ladies' races. The Stocker Division was added in 1972 for older cars. Driving the Trans-Canada Hwy in the winter I've been offered a job in Vancouver, BC and will be driving from Barrie, Ontario in two weeks. Although it has been a very easy fall season so far, it looks like the snow will be coming after this weekend.
Chrysler rolling in a crash.
Hell Drivers - numerous automobile thrill-based productions performing at fairs and racetracks by various squads of stunt drivers since the 1930s. Earl 'Lucky' Teter was the first to coin the phrase Hell Drivers, when he began touring his show in 1934. Hell Drivers provided audiences with a show filled with precision driving and deliberate crashes.
Featured stunts included driving cars on two wheels, crashing through flaming barricades, and jumping an automobile ramp to ramp through mid air. For many years, Hell Drivers were used to demonstrate the dependability of a manufacturer's automotive product. Major Hell Driver automotive sponsors have included Chevrolet, Dodge, Chrysler, Ford, AMC, Nash, and Toyota.
Later thrill shows coining the phrase 'Hell Drivers' were launched by such drivers and race promoters as Jack Kochman, John Francis 'Irish' Horan, Danny Fleenor, Geoff Williams and Joie Chitwood. Chitwood bought Teter's Hell Drivers from Teter's widow after Teter was killed in a jump in 1943. Ford Motor Company supplied cars and financed Chitwood for several years until the mid 1950s when Chitwood switched to Chevrolet after unsuccessfully trying Plymouth for a year.
General Manager of Kochman's troupe was Bob Conto. Conto, a native of Malone, New York in the state's North Country was a former radio-television announcer whose staccato delivery kept pace with the 50-mile per hour events.
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The Danish city of Aalborg is known internationally as the world's centre of Hell Drivers
Currently, the only traditional new-car stunt show in the United States is the Black Cat Hell Drivers, produced by Johnny Wisner.
There is a current documentary produced by filmmaker Dan T. Hall and Vizmo Films about the life and times of Lucky Teter.
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