Cannonball Run

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I had missed seeing this one in the news.  Thanks to WK for the tip.


'Cannonball' coast-to-coast drive record set amid virus shutdown

The tradition of dangerous, coast-to-coast driving record attempts has its most visible roots in the 1970s' Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, presented as a drunken, fraternizing party on loud, colorful wheels in the 1981 comedy "Cannonball Run."

A team of three anonymous people is believed to have taken the sport to the other extreme by using a relatively low-profile, unmarked, family-size sedan and taking advantage of freeways emptied by the coronavirus. They set what is believed to be a new transcontinental record of 26 hours, 38 minutes.

Atlanta car enthusiast Ed Bolian, who says he has seen documentation of the run and has therefore become the main source of news for the new record claim, says another asterisk for the coast-to-coast drive is that it was done amid an unprecedented lack of traffic. Is that fair?

"It certainly counts," he says. "It’s not as though they didn’t do it. Does that remain the mark to beat for the future pursuit of cannonballing?"



New York City to California's Redondo Beach in less than 27 hours in an Audi!

Folks, do the math....... that is some speed.



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Matt