![]() ![]() You feel a little spooked about something, so you address what you're spooked about, but you never quite get rid of that feeling that you probably shouldn't be doing this. At this point I no longer think about it being crazy, but. As I was sitting in the car on the barge in the middle of a quarry lake-Jamie was on the shore, about to give the signal to drag my car off the barge and pull it upside down-I thought, what the hell do we think we're doing? There's no permutation in which this is not totally insane. We thought through everything that could go wrong, and really addressed it. It's not often we do something that's so dangerous. The whole time we were leading up to it, Jamie and I were kind of spooked. MOST DANGEROUS MYTH: Escaping a Sinking Car, Season 8Ī couple years after we did the first underwater car myth, we went and did it again-because most cars turn turtle when they hit the water, and it makes it much more confusing for the person who's in the car. They didn't want to let me do the test because of the potential of crashing on the far side of the water if I came out, so I figured out an ingenious way of solving that problem so that I could do the test. There was a problem with insurance on this story. We take all the safety precautions that we possibly can, but you play with fire, you can get burned. Having to push a motorcycle that's almost out-of-control fast to its very limits, and knowing that you're going to hit the water-who knows what's going to happen at that speed? It's thrilling, but your life is right there in front of you. In terms of something that is like, "Can you actually do that?" one of my favorites this season is trying to ride a motorcycle across water. Attaching rockets to a car, getting into a helicopter, and watching it take off and disappear-it doesn't get any better than that.ĬRAZIEST MYTH FROM THE NEW SEASON: Riding A Motorcycle on Water We have yet to top what we did with the very first rocket car. The cement truck was there, and then it wasn't there. We used 800 pounds of ANFO, which is a fertilizer/diesel fuel mix. ![]() Officials say she died from injuries before her vehicle became engulfed in fire.CRAZIEST BOOM: Cement Truck Explosion, Season 3Įverybody seems to remember the cement truck as a favorite episode. I say thank you."Ĭombs was also known for appearances on Discovery's "Mythbusters" and "Break Room" as well as "Overhaulin'" and "All Girls Garage" on Velocity. Combs wrote on Instagram two days before the crash, "People say I'm crazy. The crash happened at speeds near 550 mph.Ĭombs, a Long Beach resident, was widely known in the niche sport of jet car racing and was trying to break the Women's Land Speed Record of 512 mph set in 1976 by Kitty O'Neil when she died. Officials say the front wheel of her vehicle suffered a mechanical problem, likely from hitting something on the ground, and that caused the front wheel assembly to collapse. Combs was attempting to break a land speed record in a jet car in the Alvord Desert about 90 miles south of Burns, Oregon, on Aug. Investigators have revealed what they believe to be the cause of the high-speed crash that killed television personality and professional driver Jessi Combs in late August.Ī mechanical failure is said to be the cause of the crash that killed the 39-year-old land speed racer. Investigators have revealed what they believe to be the cause of the high-speed crash that killed television personality and professional driver Jessi Combs in late August.īURNS, Ore.
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