Ken Carter(1938-1983)

Planned to jump the St. Lawrence Seaway from Canada into the United States on 26 September 1979 in a jet-powered Lincoln Continental, but didn't go through with it. Deciding that Carter had "chickened out," the film crew hired to shoot the stunt convinced Kenny Powers to attempt it, which he did on 5 October. Traveling just 509 feet, Powers broke eight vertebrae, three ribs, and a wrist.

[in reference to the pinnacle of his career - jumping a car one mile from Canada to the USA] What can you do with a car other than this? It's my dream. Now I'm in it all by myself. It started and it's ending the way it began: by myself, in a car, with a field full of people, spectators, that came to see a guy do his thing, and I'm going to get it done.