The Bell Star helmet he used in the Caesars Palace jump is credited for having saved Knievel's life after he fell off the motorcycle and struck his head on the ground. During his career, Knievel may have suffered more than 433 bone fractures, [29] earning an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the survivor of "most bones broken in a lifetime". On July 18, 2012, Audi of America recreated Knievel's Snake River jump in a promotional commercial for the Audi RS5. The documentary was filmed in July 2007 at the annual "Evel Knievel Days" festival in his old hometown of Butte.

Robbie jumped 196 feet (60m) in a tribute to his father on a much lighter motorcycle with far superior suspension. He had been in failing health for many years before his death, suffering two strokes, diabetes and the incurable lung disease pulmonary fibrosis.He was first arrested as a boy for stealing hubcaps and his first motorcycle was a Harley-Davidson, which he stole when he was 13. The Bureau’s agents suspected that he was in the pocket of the Mafia and that an organised crime syndicate was behind the promotions for many of his best-known stunts. Despite suffering numerous injuries throughout his career, Knievel continued to perform stunts until his retirement in 1980.

Knievel plays a fictionalized version of himself who foils a drug lord's attempt to smuggle narcotics into the United States. In 1977, he made a guest spot on The Bionic Woman, where he played himself, getting inadvertently caught up in East German espionage while appearing in West Germany. To help support his family, he switched careers and sold insurance for the Combined Insurance Company of America, working for W.Knievel realized that to make a more substantial amount of money he would need to hire more performers, stunt coordinators, and other personnel so that he could concentrate on the jumps. The museum features his motorcycles, leathers, helmets, wardrobe, and jewelry along with various displays and a virtual reality motorcycle jump. In 1999, Knievel married his girlfriend, Krystal Kennedy of Clearwater, Florida, whom he began dating in 1992. Evel Knievel's huge fame caused him to start traveling with bodyguards, who became life-long friends.

Whether it was jumping a crate of rattlesnakes and two mountain lions, over a row of double decker buses or even the Caesars Palace fountains, during the 1960s and 70s there was only one king of the daredevils and his name was Evil Knievel. In Last of the Gladiators, Knievel discussed the crash of a 1970 Pepsi-Cola sponsored jump in Yakima, Washington. A. Coliseum jump over crushed cars was used at the beginning of the episode, and an indoor jump over eleven cars and one van was used at the end of the show. Those dreams were unfulfilled, and his artifacts are spread throughout transportation museums and private collections around the world. Evel Knievel was a legendary American stunt performer who gained fame in the 1970s for his death-defying motorcycle jumps.

He's the one who knows how to turn any gathering into a memorable event, infusing it with fun and excitement. Knievel became known for his daring and death-defying feats, which included jumping over cars, buses, and even the fountains at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Knievel, who died last November aged 69, liked to boast of his chequered past, claiming to have been a safecracker and bank robber before becoming the world’s best-known motorcycle stuntman. For the remainder of his career, variants of the V-shaped white-starred jumpsuit would be a constant, including a special nylon/canvas flight suit that matched his white leathers for the X-2 jump.