At the historic San Francisco Civic Center, Evel Knievel successfully jumps two Triumph T120 Bonneville motorcycles with a 15' Triumph Motorcycle promotional banner tied handlebar to handlebar and two Dodge vans. The jump was estimated at 91 feet. On the previous day Evel had jumped four motorcycles and the same two Dodge vans for an estimated leap of 100 feet.
The weekend jump-a-thon would be capped off on Sunday with Knievel adding a VW bus (for the hippies at the show) for the last jump. An attempt at a record-setting four motorcycles, two Dodge vans AND a VW bus. After a long morning spent tracking down a VW bus to be used (with the slight risk of it being damaged), someone in his crew forgot to measure the distance. The final estimate for the record-setting Sunday jump was...an astounding...unknown. The weekend's final known tally - 191 feet, no broken bones and a job-opening for a crew member.
Coincidentally, on that Sunday as Evel Knievel was jumping four motorcycles, two Dodge vans and a VW bus, San Francisco police arrested 7 hippies in a VW bus for "drug possession" on Haight Street.
