One hour video portraying Dick’s early racing career, followed by:

Spectacular actual footage of over 30 car crashes selected from his world record total of more than two thousand.

We worked together for 32 years starting with stunting and progressing to the co-writing of our duo-biography. A partnership like ours is rare where two individuals put complete trust in each other and will almost certainly never be repeated.

Rest peacefully Jacquie, memoriesof your accomplishments and vivacious personality will remain vivid forever.

Dick Sheppard

Close To The Edge

CLOSE TO THE EDGE

Close to the edge is the incredible and exciting story of stunt duo Dick Sheppard and Jacquie De Creed. They each tell their own story including Jacquie’s world record car leap of 232 ft. Dick tells of over 30 years of racing, leaping and wrecking motorcycles and cars. There is not much Dick has not done on two or four wheels or mounted on four hooves! Many world records stand to his credit, which include: Riding motorcycles through tunnels of fire, performing ‘T bone dives’, driving over or through anything and everything including the upper floor of a pub, and walking away from over 2000 car crashes, which is all graphically described together with his film and television appearances.


Glamorous Jacquie De Creed recalls how she became attracted to the potentially dangerous world of stunting from starting with an all girl motorcycle stunt team to joining Dick with his all male team and together forming ‘Stuntarama’. She tells how she moved from selling car components to appearing on live Saturday night TV and making commercials for Bovril and Heinz. Her career includes riding through Dick’s ‘Tunnel of Fire’ to the ‘T bone dive’ that she performed for the Guinness Book of Records T.V. programme, which did not go quite according to plan, resulting in what is probably the most spectacular car crash ever filmed from which the female driver lived to tell the tale. This crash is on the front cover of our book, which is also illustrated with other spectacular action photographs and will be eagerly sought by Dick and Jacquie’s many thousands of fans from round the world.

# Paperback: Pages N/A

# ISBN-13: 978-0-9565329-1-6

Cheers

Dick

*** Please Note 20/06/2011 ***

After Jacquie has been taken from us, it will be a while before Close to the Edge will be released. Please use the Contact Us form to get to place interest in the new book, and you will be emailed when it is avaliable.

Cheers

Dick

Just a quick Thank you to all who visited me at Waterstones, on 28th August, it was a great day. Hope you all liked the car!

Cheers

Dick

Hi all,

*** Added September 2010 ***
Click here for our great Waterstones day.

Some more images below of our garden book signing.

Dick enjoying the nibbles

Dick sharing stories

The Crowds

Following the success of our book signing at home, we have another one at Waterstones Gloucester.

Saturday 28th August 2010

Waterstones Gloucester
13-15 Eastgate Street
GB – Gloucester GL1 1NS

All are welcome to come along and view the special surprise.

Cheers

Dick

Waterstones Gloucester
13-15 Eastgate Street
GB – Gloucester GL1 1NS
Tel: 0843 290 8347 / Fax: 01452 330689
E-mail: manager@gloucester.waterstones.com
Site: http://www.waterstones.com

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My Wild Youth In Gloucestershire

This book recounts vivid memories and exploits of Dick Sheppard between the 1930′s and 1960′s eras.

It demonstrates especially the effect of World War II on life before and after the hostilities.

There are stories from the parishes of Tuffley, Podsmead, Hempstead, Quedgeley and Hardwicke, especially appertaining to the canal, which passes through the latter and on to Sharpness.

For the history buffs, there are revealed several little known facts from this period and the era concerned.

Finally it gives an insight into the formative years of someone who went on to become a world record-holding stunt artist.

# Paperback: 144 pages

# ISBN-13: 978-0956532909

Dick emerges yet again in glorious black and white, a better view of the tunnel though!

Emerging from the tunnel of fire!

These will be published soon, so please  log in and return soon.

Please enjoy the site, which is constantly updated.

Cheers

Dick

What a smash up!

Over a period of more than 40 years up until his retirement in 1993 Dick Sheppard of Gloucester wrecked a total of 2003 cars, not because he was a bad driver but because it was his profession and hobby as a stuntman. The first one was on a bomb site in 1951. In 1968 he formed the “Disaster Squad”, devoted entirely to car destruction. There were shows at home and abroad and perhaps the high point was being asked to appear in the James Bond films.

So how did Dick become involved in this daring act with its ever-present risk of injury?

From day one of the introduction of stock car racing in Great Britain in 1954 the sport became my hobby, and soon after that my occupation became auto stunt artist for films.

M reputation blossomed and the demand was great. It was while I was gasping after a nine day booking in Johannesburg, with two performances a day, and a pile of nearly 300 wrecked cars that I realized that there could be no one else doing this at this at the same rate! Not bad going, 33 cars smashed up every day for 9 days.

I dont know if the record will ever be surpassed, because during modern film making, with its demand for bigger and better crashes, most of the vehicles are projected driverless. But I would be happy to meet anyone who wrecked two thousand and four and congratulate them. We would have lots of amazing anecdotes to share.

Happy Retirement Dick!