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In July 2018 motorsports competitor and stuntman Travis Pastrana recreated three of the legendary Evel Knievel's motorcycle stunts in Las Vegas. The middle of these was a jump over a row of buses. The original stunt was at Wembley in 1975, and included a row of 13 London Transport Merlins or Swifts: This recreation used Greyhound Prevosts and was part of a three hour live presentation by the History Channel: Identifiable from the footage are 13 of the 16 motorcoaches used: 86700/7/9-11/14/5 86721/5/9 86733/41/52 All are 2018 Prevost X3-45: 86707 was used during preparation for the jump. Pastrana posed with Greyhound 86063 (a 2009 Prevost X3-45) for publicity photographs, although this didn't appear in the show, and yes, in the event he made it all look rather easy:

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