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Lucky Teter and his Thrill Show "The Hell Drivers"
Ruth Teter was an interested and active member of the First United Methodist Church of Noblesville. When she died in August 1981 she was unmarried and had no close family. In her will she gave her 120 acre family farm to the First United Methodist Church with the request that it be developed into a church retreat and named in memory of the A.W. Teter family. As a girl Ruth lived in the farm house. When her family moved into Noblesville, the Teter Farm was always a fun place to go for the two Teter children, Earl and Ruth. Ruth was an excellent piano player and accompanied several musical groups. Ruth's brother Earl was two years older than she. In high school Earl was captain of the baseball team, and played basketball and football. As a young man her brother Earl ('Lucky') Teter was a race driver of both autos and motorcycles. He earned a wide reputation as a stunt driver with a group called 'Lucky' Teter's Hell Drivers. As former gas station attendant and weekend test driver, Lucky decided to try his hand at the thrill driving trade during the early 1930¹s. In 1934, Lucky assembled a small group of individuals and put his 'Hell Drivers' on the road. It was the first time the auto thrill show was conceived as a traveling attraction. The show consisted of many of the same stunts already established by the Ward Beam thrill show, however the 'Hell Drivers' developed new events. Lucky added the precision driving of new automobiles over elevated ramps, reverse spins, and added stuntmen to the show acting as 'daredevil clowns'. By the late 1930's, Lucky had started performing a ramp to ramp jump over a large truck or transcontinental bus. It was this feat that took Lucky's life in 1942, in what was said to be his last performance before he was to join the Army during World War II. |
Jim's specialty is crashing cars and blowing himself up.
When crashing cars he uses everyday stock automobiles with a standard seatbelt and a crash helmet for protection. He uses no roll-bars in most acts.
He has demolished over 2,000 cars in his career.
In 1972 Jim learned how to blow himself up with dynamite and walk away from it.
In 1980 he learned how to do it in a safer way when he worked for the World Series of Thrills and John Anderson. Jim still performs this act today under his trademark name of Captain Explosion .
Today he uses at least a pound of explosives as real dynamite has been resticted by government regulations. A safe act now has become an unsafe act, by these regulations. Jim is only one of a handful of stunt performers who still knows how to use real dynamite.
In 1974 Jim was the first stuntman in the US to perform the Steel Wall Crash,
some call the domino crash. Jim learned this act from the originator,
The Unbelievable Lessard Brothers of Quebec. Since those first days Jim has been copied by many but still is the only cascadeur that has performed this act over 35 different ways including using a convertible.
Over the years he has performed stunts with new cars in precision driving over low ramps,
stunts with motorcycles and snowmobiles, and even a go-kart.
On occassions he even dorns his clown outfit and is known as Crash'O Dare.
Also in 1974, Jim performed a car roll-over for the movie DEATHRIDERS. Jim was asked to do the stunt completely different from his normal way.
As the art of streaking was the thing to do,
the director wanted Jim to streak in the movie.
So Jim rolled the car with only his crash helmet and cowboy boots on. Some 30 years later Jim is still the only stuntman to crash a car nude.
In the 80's Jim became the 2nd stuntman to literally set himself on fire without a firesuit or fire gel at county fairs after learning the act the year before when he worked with Texan Gary Beall on Bill Siros Thrill-a-rama. A few years later Gary could not make a performance he called Jim up and asked him to take over the date but he asked Jim to come out of a car that just exploded. Jim learned how to do this new version of being on fire over the Ma Bell network.
Jim is probally one of the most versitile stunt performers in the outdoors business today.
He is known by everyone in the business from coast to coast.
A few years ago while performing in Quebec he learned how to do his newest act,
The Torpedo crash which was designed by Greg Riddell of Ontario. Jim has taken this act to a new level, of blowing everything up on impact.
Over the years Jim has been a stunt coordinator for other stunt personnel. He has helped motorcycle jumpers and so called THRILL SHOW Producers to start their shows.
But no one can produce the wild stunt shows that he produces for himelf. Many have tried but they are still not up to par for a wild show..
In the 90's Jim designed the last Auto Cannon of the Century for Fransqua Boivan.
In 2002 Jim put Wildman Al thru a mobile home, end to end, while he blew everything up in a ball of fire. The following year he had Wildman Al drive a dump truck into a school bus standing straight up on it's rear end.
in 2004 Jim designed a ramp so Wildman Al could pilot a Garbage Truck off an 8 foot high ramp and land over 77 feet down range for a Guiness World Record.
Over the years Jim has been very fortunate for only having minor injuries,
as he has known many performers who have died or been seriously injured while performing. With only one broken bone in his finger and minor cuts and scrapes, he did get his worst injury while performing the Sunday night before Memorial Day 2004,
in Thompson Connecticut. He drove a school bus at over 60 mph thru another bus that was placed sideways on the racetrack. When the bus hit, it split the other bus in half, but the steering column came in on him, pinning him between the steering wheel and the back of the seat. Jim didn't receive any broken bones but had internal problems that made him sick all summer, still he kept on performing, starting two weeks after the mishap. Even today a year and a half later his stomach still hurts.
Jim is 58 years old and the 4th oldest daredevil performing for the number of years being in the business, and the oldest at doing automobile crashes. You will see Jim perform again this summer.
Please check out the schedule page for where he will be performing at a location near you.
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Tonny Petersen an Auto Thrill Show veteran of approximately forty-nine years of excellence.
Although a native of Coppenhagen, Denmark, he and his wife Becki, now resides in North Carolina.
Before joining the Auto Thrill Show business, Tonny was an acrobat, with the Royal Danish Circus, and the five Amandas.
An excellent athletic type proformer,that can endure the vigorous every day to day grind of a stunt driver, and enjoys playing golf.
Tonny, is indisputable one of the greatest stuntdriver's in this long history of Auto Thrill Shows. A top performer of the wing-over, or high ski stunts today.
You may have seen Tonny performing at the World's Fair (1964) , the Beechnut Show, Fantasy On Wheels, The Newport Shows, the Jack Kochman's Helldrivers plus a few other shows, and has movie credits . Has numerous articles that has been written about him, in major magazines and newspapers.
In the past Auto Thrill Show seasons, Tonny was with Charlie Belnap's Toyota Sponsored Hollywood stunt Shows and currently with Paul Riddell's Imperial Stunt Shows
When he is not driving in a four-car precision stunt team, or performing a wing-over, and then a snap-roll and land on all four wheels. He taking care of other vital business affairs.
Because of Tonny's vast experience in all facets of this fast-paced mile-per second action, he also assumes the vital responsibility of stunt coordinator.
What a Way to make a living, hoevever this man of steel loves it.
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Andretti Keeps
Vancouver History
Points Battle is HOT!
By Jim DeFord
©1996 SpeedCenter Internet Publishing, Inc.
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VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada (September 1, 1996) - Michael Andretti kept the Andretti/Unser streak alive by winning his his third race at the 7th Annual Molson Indy Vancouver today. Al Unser Jr. has won the other four races held here at Concord Pacific Place. Alex Zanardi, the pole sitter, held off Andretti and led the field into the hairpin at the start. Zanardi would lead every lap he raced. Through the first 13 laps, the only major action on the track was lapping Hiro Matsushita every 4-laps or so, and the AAR-Toyota-powered machines, though much faster than Hiro's car, that would play into the end results in a big way -- more on that later. By lap 13, Zanardi held a comfortable 3.24 second lead over Andretti and looked to be on his way to dominating this race flag-to-flag. On lap 17-19, Zanardi had been trying to get around P.J. Jones in every which way but up. On lap 19, entering turn 10, Alex made a very strange move to the outside of P.J. Jones who was holding the normal race line and the two cars touched wheels. Zanardi's right-side was lifted up 75-degrees and looked to be going over but his left front caught the barrier-wall and his car slammed down safely on all-fours, but terminally damaged in the runoff area. Alex scrambled from his Target-Ganassi/Honda-Reynard and the only injury he suffered was his pride and a lost-chance at the PPG Cup Championship. As he walked back to the pits he was visibly upset...or super-pissed off might be a better word. He violently shook off the comforts offered by Target-Ganassi's Public Relations Director, Michael Knight, and went directly into the transporter. When interviewed by ESPN, after he had obviously calmed down, he was asked if he would confront P.J. Jones. "It wouldn't make any difference," Alex replied simply. And the race goes on.... Green flag racing resumed on lap 25 with the top-six being; Andretti, Rahal, Unser, Vasser, Herta and Fittipaldi. Canadian favorite, Greg Moore, retired on lap 38 due to a transmission related oil leak. 16 laps later (41) the next race-event would be a NASCAR-style, banzai pass by Robby Gordon upon Jan Magnussen -- The pass failed as Jan was speared by Robby. Gordon was able to continue, but it took 5 laps for the corner workers to push-start Magnussen. Jan would later retire due to a spectacular, but safe, oil fire. At the mid-way point in the race (50 laps) the top-ten order was; Andretti, Rahal, Unser, Vasser, Herta, Fittipaldi, Pruett, Fernandez, Tracy and de Ferran. Three laps later (Lap 53), Pruett pulls off into the turn-3 runoff area due to yet another fried Cosworth powerplant. One lap later (Lap 54) the caution flag is thrown, courtesy of Andre Ribeiro's contact with the outside wall, entering the hairpin, where his car stopped in a very precarious position. As the IndyCar Safety Team attends to Ribeiro's stranded car, a stubborn oil-fire erupts on Jan Magnussen's Hogan-Penske machine and this caution flag is extended until lap 62 to attend to both cars. But, on lap 61, Al Unser Jr. dives into the pits for a quick splash of methanol. And, Jimmy Vasser, who had been advised (speed violation) that he would be black-flagged for a "drive-though" penalty, sneaks into the pits for a methanol-top-off. One-green-lap later (Lap 62), Vasser serves his drive-through penalty. Rumors abound that he ordered a taco-salad to go, rather than a burger and fries. Jimmy is relegated to the 12th position, but climbs quickly into the 8th position with 20 laps to go. On lap 68, Robby Gordon, in desperation, attempts a no-brainer pass on Fangio in turn 5 and wins again. Fangio clearly had the line and was offered, maybe in practice for his new career, a NASCAR-style bump by Robby. With the heavy fines being handed out readily since Road America, don't be surprised to see a few more $20k-$40k fines announced at Laguna Seca. Lap 74 began the next green flag in which the field was bunched-up in a huge way. Tracy bit it by trying to go wide at the hair-pin and was out of the race. In the late-race chase, Vasser was on Herta like white-on-rice, waving his fist more than once. Vasser had seen Unser go by Herta so easily and probably got frustrated a bit. When questioned about why Herta had been passed so easily, Bryan replied, "I got 'Hiro'd'". Coincendentally, Jimmy Vasser had the same answer when asked about Herta. "...I hope he feels like a hero...." (Hiro?). 26 laps later, Andretti wins the 1996 race at Vancouver, punts Unser from his long-held second place PPG Points standing and dumps him to third, with the last possible chance for the PPG Cup. The PPG Championship has three drivers in its grasp. Jimmy Vasser; Michael Andretti; and Al Unser, Jr...
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THE DEATH RIDERS
MOTORCYCLE THRILL SHOW
OF THE 70's ![]() Picture above is the original Death Riders Motorcycle Crew of 1972 From left to right: Freddie Hall announcer, Al Chapbot, Danny "The Greek", Johnny Hardin, Crash Moreau, Danny Reed, Floyd Reed (owner) and Rusty "Squeaks" Smith One of the Death Riders (Danny the Greek) performing a flaming boardwall crash.
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Wildest Show on Wheels
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Over the last fifty-four years we have been entertaining hundreds of thousands of people all over North America. Just last year the Imperial Stunt Drivers toured as far east as Blue Hill, Maine and as far west as Belle , Missouri.
Featuring the new Ford Mustang GT coupe.
Welcome to the home Page of the Imperial Stunt Drivers. We are now booking for our 2007 season.
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