# Attempt at the mile long car jump... Kenny Powers, Ken Carter
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [June 9, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762 "2008-06-09T19:40:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/1 "2008-06-09T19:40:39Z")
hahahahaha … we need more people like this
[http://www.extremesportclips.com/video/1876/Attempted-One-Mile-Car-Jump.html](http://www.extremesportclips.com/video/1876/Attempted-One-Mile-Car-Jump.html)
---
### Author:  [@snowracer101](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/snowracer101)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/2 "2008-06-09T19:44:39Z")
my god. he thought he could jump 5,280 feet?
Well, they did believe the world was flat back in the day
---
### Author:  [@articzap](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/articzap)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/3 "2008-06-09T19:48:33Z")
Needed VTEC.
---
### Author:  [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/4 "2008-06-09T19:51:41Z")
thats better Lincoln destruction then airhead and fuzzy managed to do … lol
> [@articzap](#):
>
> Needed VTEC.
he had vtec … and it blew off
---
### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/5 "2008-06-09T20:00:23Z")
HI
Old
Posted
Several
Times
Lets
Make
An
Attempt
To
Search
kthx
---
### Author:  [@Cavi\_Mike](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cavi_Mike)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/6 "2008-06-09T20:03:35Z")
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this before, it was worse than Evel’s canyon jump.
---
### Author:  [@Jeller](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeller)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/7 "2008-06-09T20:39:03Z")
Never seen this either. LOL at the car choice and what seems to be lack of thought about the cars flight.
---
### Author:  [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/8 "2008-06-09T21:04:07Z")
Broke his back 7 times,lol.
All that is man!
---
### Author:  [@ILCisDEAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ILCisDEAD)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/9 "2008-06-09T21:05:25Z")
The guy tried the same thing again and the chute didn’t deploy or something … he died on the 2nd attempt ☹
this attempt was like broken ribs and shit
---
### Author:  [@Carnut](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carnut)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/10 "2008-06-09T21:31:00Z")
> [@Jeller](#):
>
> Never seen this either. LOL at the car choice and what seems to be lack of thought about the cars flight.
Right? that thing is as aerodynamic as a brick!
---
### Author:  [@Bovice](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bovice)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/11 "2008-06-10T23:06:14Z")
new jump idea…jump from niagara falls on the states side to the canadian side…speedped is the driver, and for the car, we use a cube van or a pedo-van (same thing)…with a mural of a siq 3rd gen f-bod on the side surrounded by flames that reads “stuntman speedped”
---
### Author:  [@ly555is](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ly555is)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/12 "2008-06-11T00:46:04Z")
ha, pedo-van
---
### Author:  [@j\_espo1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/j_espo1)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2008, 5:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/13 "2008-06-11T05:02:03Z")
wow, never saw that vid.
what an idiot.
---
### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2008, 6:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/14 "2008-06-11T06:02:34Z")
Obviously well before aerodynamics existed.
Honestly though 280MPH in any old brick car is pretty ballsy given the technology of the era.
---
### Author:  [@RLB](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RLB)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/15 "2008-06-11T07:27:13Z")
“Powers was lucky, he had broken his back.”
Real lucky. Haha
---
### Author:  [@Karter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Karter)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/16 "2008-06-11T08:01:11Z")
> [@ILCisDEAD](#):
>
> The guy tried the same thing again and the chute didn’t deploy or something … he died on the 2nd attempt ☹
>
> this attempt was like broken ribs and shit
link?
---
### Author:  [@Bucker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bucker)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/17 "2008-06-11T09:46:53Z")
Hahahahahaha so stupid.
---
### Author:  [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/18 "2014-02-25T15:23:18Z")
Bump for a full documentary on this stupidity:
---
### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/19 "2014-02-27T09:33:30Z")
I recommend that people watch that documentary that Josh posted.
(And not just skip to the end)
It’s pretty interesting. The guy plans it for 5 years, and while he’s in a meeting they put a different driver in his place.
Also, in reference to a comment above, he didn’t die trying this again a few years later. Ken Carter died trying some pond jump in 1983, but it was not this.
---
### Author:  [@rugsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rugsr)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2014, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762/20 "2014-02-27T10:13:44Z")
Thats insane…and ballsy!
[Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attempt-at-the-mile-long-car-jump-kenny-powers-ken-carter/49762.md?page=2)