Tags: Amusement Park Attraction, Roller Coaster.
American Thunder is a wooden roller coaster that opened June 20 2008 at Six Flags St. Louis. The coaster was originally named after and themed to the famous motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. It was renamed American Thunder for the 2011 season.To help promote the opening of the then-Evel Knievel Roller Coaster Knievel’s son Robbie Knievel jumped a Honda CR-500 motorcycle over 25 Dodge Chargers on July 3 2008.
