He was looking to validate the vehicle that his brilliant father designed and engineered. ![]() While Braun wanted to do this to honor Knievel and close the books on the unfinished business that was Snake Canyon, Truax had different motivations. The engineering of the vehicle was provided by Scott Traux who is the son of the original designer Bob Traux. That money was almost wholly provided by Braun himself. The bill for the whole project was something like $1.6 million bucks. ![]() Having appeared in dozens of movies over his career, he never gave up the idea of making good on Knievel’s largest and most robust failure. Braun is a guy who met Knievel as a kid and became fascinated and obsessed with him. A steam rocket was to provide the power, the open field across the canyon was to be the landing point, and rather than Evel Knievel strapped into the “sky cycle” this time it was 54-year old Hollywood stunt man Eddie Braun. From the ramp to the vehicle that Braun was in and the distance across the deep canyon, those things really had not changed a whole lot. The act itself was shockingly similar to the original. It took all those things and a ton more to conquer the infamous Snake River Canyon jump that Evel Knievel failed at in spectacular fashion back in the 1970s and Eddie Braun dominated like a boss over the weekend. It took the son of the original rocket scientist to prove his dad was right. It took more than $1-million out of the bank account of Eddie Braun.
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