was born and 17 days later accompanied his mom to Denver for his first show! They finished out the season in New Mexico and Las Vegas, Nevada. The joke was that she would have to “be in labor” before Labor Day or she would miss the show! Finally on August 13th Billy, Jr. Jan was promoted all summer to be in that show to do a Human Bomb Act, a Leap of Death, and a Suicide Twist. A Labor Day Special was planned for August 31st. During the summer, she and other members of the team, at the time known as Janet Lee’s International Daredevils, would drive cars from Albuquerque to Denver doing shows every weekend. For the first 8 and ½ months she was pregnant. Sometimes during that season, there were so many racetracks that they would work 6 nights a week.ġ975 would be a slow start for Jan. Although she still did car stunts, the other stunt people did most of them. The Human Bomb would be her specialty that year. From there the show went east, mostly through Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. In 1974 the first show of the season, in California, she would do her first Human Bomb act. Over the next few months she would be crashing cars, driving through dynamite, being a human battering ram, crashing through ice and even having a head-on crash with another female driver. The first show she appeared in was Jdoing precision driving. Since Billy was impressed by Jan’s willingness to perform stunts in public, he was willing to teach her.
The Death riders would be gone the next day.
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Billy was looking for female drivers at the time and would be performing the next few weeks locally. TNT”, of the Death riders, he invited her to join his show. After Billy had heard her volunteer to get into the box to be blown up with Danny Reed, aka “Mr. It was at their third show that she was hired by stuntman Billy Ward, owner of “Billy Ward’s World Champion Auto dare devils, another stunt show. Jan started her stunt career in Texas after watching the Death riders Motorcycle stunt show perform in the summer of 1973.
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