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<br />Springs, Arizona. <br />I hired some people to help us build a ramp and deck for the <br />boat so we could put it all together with just side tubes and cover <br /> <br /> <br />Ted Hatch with Ford LTD. Photo courtesy of author. <br /> <br />it with slabs to make it look like a log raft, which was what they <br />had in mind for the shot. Shorty Burton was a pretty good car- <br />penter, as well as a riverman, and he built the ramp so we could <br />load the car on the rubber boat. Rubber boats are somewhat <br />unstable in the water; they're jittery and they move around. When <br />the director got down there, he decided we couldn't load the car <br />without tipping the raft over. He just didn't think it was going to <br />work. <br />While he was up on the beach arguing with some of the <br />crew, I got in the car and drove it onto the raft. Then Shorty and <br />I got out and chained it down. The production people all laughed, <br />because we could do it. But no one had ever tried this going down <br />those big rapids. <br />When we chained the car down, we hid the chains <br /> <br />14 <br />