[Jhoffa_]

Damn..

It may just be time to put the ole' Camaro back together.

[Billthedrill]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. While I enjoy driving as much as anyone, this is one of those deals that Mom used to talk about as being all in fun until someone's eye gets put out. "No civilian casualties" was the motto in the movie, but in real life not a lot of us commuting to work in '84 K-cars are going to be looking out for 170 mph Vipers coming up our six.

I don't think it's necessarily a reaction to people rich enough to pay the fines making public roads a racetrack - after all, I react the same way when some punk in a hopped-up Escort does it. And I'm sure all of these are experienced high-speed drivers in well-maintained automobiles capable of the speeds required. It's just that they're not the only ones on the road, and that these folks blowing by a student driver or a farmer in a combine or an Amish horse-wagon makes for a great sight gag in the movies, it really isn't that funny in real life. So call me a Scrooge.

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

Maximillion Cooper, a raffish 30-year-old Londoner, came up with the idea of a public road race five years ago....The event, inspired by the classic Burt Reynolds road flick "Cannonball Run"....

Euro-trash meets trailer trash.

[txzman]

Yeah, its great fun - until one of these jerks plows into a van carrying a family full of kids at 140mph.

Me, me, mine. Pathetic little people with too little brains and too much money.

[Servant of the Nine]

Since the movie "Cannonball Run" was based on the real "Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash", the guy invented nothing.

SO9

[Amalie]

Those of you interested in this thread should read Brock Yates great new book "Cannonball," about the original races in the 1970s, and why he stated he would never promote another one. This one is a joke; the originals were protesting the first 55 mph speed limits.

As for me, how about a Hemi 1969 Dodge Daytona at 200 mph on the speed-limitless Autobahn...

[joebuck]

"The event, inspired by the classic Burt Reynolds road flick "Cannonball Run, "

Actually, long before Cannonball Run there was a movie titled "Gumball Rally" about a no holds barred cross country auto race in exotic cars. I believe it starred Michael Sarazin. I imagine it was this move that inspired this event.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Does anyone have a list of the participants? I read somewhere that they were a bunch of B-movie stars, but from the article it sounds like just a bunch of no-name Eurotrash.