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Auto Thrill Show

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"Hell drivers" risk life, limb and vehicles as they crash, roll and leap their cars in a high-speed show. View the Transportation Area Map Locate It: T16 Drivers put their cars through brutal trials, including four-car bumper tag and wing ski jumps (autos careen off a ramp on two wheels at 50 mph). In the show's climax, a driver pilots a truck up a ramp, then soars over a 70-foot gap to land safely on a second ramp. The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book Artist's Rendering of the Auto Thrill Show Source: Presented Courtesty John Pender Collection   Climax of the Hell Drivers show is this risky 70-foot ramp-to-ramp flight of a standard pickup truck as a convertible darts under it. Injuries to drivers are on the rise this year. Source: News Colorfoto by Daniel Jacino, New York Sunday News, July 11, 1965