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,
Go-Set columns contained many camp in jokes. Meldrum became editor of a monthly "Go-Set" offshoot, "Gas", which was aimed at younger teen girls and was first published in October 1968 with a feature on The Monkees; its last issue was in March 1971. Nimmervoll, an architecture student, started with "Go-Set" as the compiler of the national Top 40 charts, beginning in February 1967. He then wrote feature stories and record reviews, and in December 1969 began editing "Go-Set"'s counter-culture supplement, "Core", which was influenced by the US magazine "Rolling Stone". Founders, Schauble and Beard had left by February 1969 and Frazer