http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/magazine/15-11/ff_cannonballrun

And so the clock starts and the taillights flare, and they're off again, strapped down, fueled up, and bound on an outlaw enterprise with 2,795 miles of interstate and some 31,000 highway cops between them and the all-time speed record for crossing the American continent on four wheels.

The gear is all bought and loaded. Twenty packs of Nat Sherman Classic Light cigarettes, check. Breath mints, check. Glucose and guarana, Visine and riboflavin, Gatorade and Red Bull, mail-order porta-pissoir bags of quick-hardening gel, check.

Randolph highway patrol sunglasses, 20-gallon reserve fuel tank, Tasco 8 x 40 binoculars fitted with a Kenyon KS-2 gyro stabilizer, military spec Steiner 7 x 50 binoculars, Hummer H1-style bumper-mounted L-3 Raytheon NightDriver thermal camera and LCD dashboard screens, front-and-rear-mounted sensors for a Valentine One radar/laser detector, flush bumper-mount Blinder M40 laser jammers, redundant Garmin StreetPilot 2650 GPS units, preprogrammed Uniden police radio scanners, ceiling-mount Uniden CB radio with high-gain whip antenna. Check. Check. Check

10/20/2007 12:18:20 PM

10/20/2007 12:54:36 PM

10/20/2007 12:56:53 PM

Quote :

"20-gallon reserve fuel tank, Tasco 8 x 40 binoculars fitted with a Kenyon KS-2 gyro stabilizer, military spec Steiner 7 x 50 binoculars, Hummer H1-style bumper-mounted L-3 Raytheon NightDriver thermal camera and LCD dashboard screens, front-and-rear-mounted sensors for a Valentine One radar/laser detector, flush bumper-mount Blinder M40 laser jammers, redundant Garmin StreetPilot 2650 GPS units, preprogrammed Uniden police radio scanners, ceiling-mount Uniden CB radio with high-gain whip antenna. Check. Check. Check"

I would like to have all that put on my vehicle. that'd be badass

10/20/2007 1:54:25 PM

when you really need to speed

10/20/2007 3:46:55 PM

how would i outfit a 20gal reserve tank in my car?

10/20/2007 3:52:28 PM

^very carefully

10/20/2007 3:54:56 PM

^^add a fuel cell in the trunk?

10/20/2007 4:27:01 PM

man I used to love watching Cannonball Run growing up, that shit was on ALL the time

10/20/2007 4:28:37 PM

bttt because that is a good article.

10/21/2007 1:02:56 AM

it's also a level in donkey kong

10/21/2007 2:35:02 AM

^^^ I've got it on DVD but the script had been heavily edited

10/21/2007 9:41:52 AM

hot damn, he beat it!!

that was one of the most awesome articles I've ever read.


damn cool, damn cool.

10/21/2007 11:46:04 AM

http://www.wired.com/images/article/wide/2007/10/ff_cannonballrun_w.jpg


that looks about photshopped as hell

10/21/2007 11:47:44 AM

I think I just had an orgasm. Like multiples. And the pee shudders.

This is killin' me. I think I want to do a mid '80s Caprice Estate wagon build with a wicked LS1/6 speed combo, Vette third member and rear suspension setup, custom lowered double wishbones in the front, rack and pinion steering, and all that shizz. Oh shit. Calling all Garage Ratz...

10/21/2007 11:56:24 AM

10/21/2007 12:09:40 PM

lmao WTF is going on in this video?? ahaha

ah burt reynolds is in it. makes sense now

[Edited on October 21, 2007 at 2:40 PM. Reason : jank]

10/21/2007 2:34:24 PM

^ ??


you didnt know Burt Reynolds was in Cannonball Run?? I'm lost

10/21/2007 5:00:59 PM

captain chaos!

10/21/2007 8:19:46 PM

that would be very cool to do this.

10/21/2007 9:52:56 PM

Quote :

"2,795 miles of interstate and some 31,000 highway cops"

so... roughly one cop for every 500ft of highway.

probably not the picture I want in my head when I'm trying to imagine a free nation

10/21/2007 10:22:16 PM

yep kinda bullshit isn't it

10/21/2007 10:23:43 PM

At least we don't have speed cameras like in the UK.

10/21/2007 10:27:11 PM

^^^ yeah i dont think that it works that way

10/21/2007 10:43:59 PM

Kinda weird when you think about it like that.

10/21/2007 10:44:58 PM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=r3ZvX2AZz-Y

10/21/2007 11:05:32 PM

it will be mine... ohh yes it will be mine

or wait... anyone have 40k so i can join the next gumball rally ?

10/21/2007 11:09:09 PM

Quote :

"you didnt know Burt Reynolds was in Cannonball Run?? "

For a B rated movie, it had some pretty serious names in it: Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr, Terry Bradshaw, Jackie Chan, Peter Fonda, Jamie Farr (Klinger on M*A*S*H), and -- for all the motorheads -- Brock Yates.

10/22/2007 4:09:29 PM

I remember seeing this in the theater. My mom and one of her friends took a group of us. I was never so embarrassed to have to sit next to them. Funny...

10/22/2007 4:10:44 PM

yeah, my mom wanted to see Knocked Up so I took her. That was more than a little uncomfortable. Although I did laugh when she leaned over halfway through the movie and asked me what "mushrooms" were.

10/22/2007 4:24:13 PM

you DID tell her it was a kind of tattoo, didn't you?

10/22/2007 4:46:28 PM

yo holmes

10/22/2007 4:47:07 PM

I had a couple of friends in high school with Holmes as their last name...

10/22/2007 4:48:31 PM

I'd also like to point out that, in the above video, Burt Reynolds lands the aircraft in Covington, Georgia which is where the first 5 episodes of the Dukes of Hazzard were filmed. As a matter of fact, you can briefly see the courthouse and the Western Auto that both showed up in those early episodes.

You know, for those of you who care.

[Edited on October 22, 2007 at 6:11 PM. Reason : nobody? oh. okay.]

10/22/2007 6:10:58 PM

We got HBO really early on, like 1981 and Cannoball Run and Cannonball Run 2 were on ALL the time the first few years along with Chariots of Fire, Canary Row and Under the Rainbow

10/22/2007 6:57:44 PM

^^ where were the other episodes shot?

10/22/2007 7:01:07 PM

I picture the Azn guys as any person in the bookstacks on a Friday night

10/22/2007 7:10:31 PM

^^ California. I've been to Covington, it really doesn't look much different from the time the movie was filmed there. The original Boar's Nest is now a church

In The Heat of the Night was also filmed there and the Covington, Ga CoC has a brochure showing all the places from both.

10/22/2007 9:07:16 PM

Here's an interesting followup/counterpiece to the Wired article if anyone actually cares.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/sports/othersports/17speed.html?_r=2&ref=sports&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

10/23/2007 4:59:03 PM