Evil Knevil, little known fact, the guy that painted his bikes and the big Rig art work lives across the river in Moline, ILL. personal friend of mine, not tight but when I stop in his shop we talk of the old times, he also did some artwork for me..G. Sedlack be his name..hell of a nice guy..must say though, even though old Evil was in town several times, I never got to meet him..Geo. has all kinds of pictures of Evil and his bikes on his walls of his studio..and with that info and 50 cents you can get a senior citizen coffee someplace.

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Not film footage, but maybe a good place to start............. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evel_Knievel

What a character!!

DougJ

 

Thanks...nice FXE ?

 

Evil is cool.

Sadly, even though he never smoked, he has some type of fibrosis of the lungs. They are actually hardening. He requires oxygen all the time.

 

I ran into him in Spokane, Waa couple of years ago. He was in a custom painted Ford F-150 in his Knevel themewith his street scoot loaded in the back. He was headed home and meeting a friend there for dinner. He is a nice guy when approached, but his years are certainly showing when I ran into him. He appears very crippled up in his Golden years. The one thing I never realized is how tall and big Evil is. I know he has been also fighting hepatitus <spelling> for many years now.

As I kid I always liked him....He is an American Icon in my book!

 

This thread brings back some memories. Evel came to the Coon Rapids drag strip in 1972. Two of my friends on Kawasaki 500's and myself on a Triumph Bonneville drove down, into an incredible crowd--the largest they had ever had.

Evel's dual trailer semi was parked on the edge of the runway, and he came in by twin engine plane. The crowd surged onto the track, and the plane swerved and hit the back of the truck, breaking loose an engine, and punching a hole in the back of the truck.

He entertained us all with his jet powered cycle, did wheelies the length of the track on his jump bike, and then jumped over a line of vans.

On the way home, we got got in stop and go traffic in 90+ degree weather, and my Bonneville got so hot the plugs melted into the heads. I had to do a .060 bore to fix the scored cylinders.

Here's some very old pictures from my scrapbook. That's me at the age of 19 on top of a power pole wiring up a telephone!

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that was the biggest BS hype jump ever made by evil. He knew his bike wouldnt make that jump
any good base jumper could have pulled that pos jump off. Now I do have to give him his respects for most of his jumps. helluva daredevil he was. But the SRC.... just hype for money....

 

One of his other incidents was beating up a newsman, causing a "fall from grace" with the public, that he didn't recover from until Bobby started jumping. We saw him at the Buffalo Chip when he jumped the stage a few years back.

Bobby got DWI's two years in a row at Sturgis, if I recall correctly.

 

I got to see Evel and his son perform at Kings Island Amusement park in Cincinnati (I believe in 1974). It was a trip. Robbie was pulling wheelies everywhere and Evel ended up breaking some worlds record. The Great Karl Walenda was walking across the park on a tight rope at the same time. That was a great summer.

 

I want a Evil lunch box!