Evel Knievel 1972. On January 7 and 8, 1971, Knievel set the record by selling over 100,000 tickets to back-to-back performances at the Houston Astrodome. On February 28, he set a new world record by jumping 19 cars with his Harley-Davidson XR-750 at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. The 19-car jump was filmed for the movie "Evel Knievel." Knievel held the record for 27 years until Bubba Blackwell jumped 20 cars in 1998 with an XR-750. In 2015, Doug Danger surpassed that number with 22 cars, accomplishing this feat on Evel Knievel's actual vintage 1972 Harley-Davidson XR-750. On May 10,
Tom Steele (stuntman) an aggressive reporter jumping onto the running board of Kane's car as it pulls away. In the 1960s and 70s he remained active as a stuntman but took on more acting bits, including a role as a truck driver in 1966's "Harper" and a bit as a security guard in the 1971 Bond epic "Diamonds Are Forever". He also drove one of the vehicles used in the classic car chase from "Bullitt" (1968) and did driving stunts for Disney's late-1960s ""Love Bug"" films. His last film before retiring was 1986's "Tough Guys", in which he played an elderly man caught