Posts Tagged ‘CannonballRun’
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Before the start of the 2007 Bullrun rally last Saturday in Montreal, participants Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collonis bet their fellow Bullrun buddy Jay Riecke $50,000 that they could beat the longstanding cross-country rally record of driving from New York City to L.A. set by Dave Heinz and Dave ......
Tags: 2007 bullrun, 2007Bullrun, 28 years, bullrun, bullrun rally, cadillac esv, Cannonball Baker, Cannonball Run, CannonballRun, ferrari 550, fuel cells, Jaguar XJS, jalopnik, jay leno, memorial trophy, NY to LA, NyToLa, portofino inn, rawling, record, redondo beach ca, richard rawlings, sea to shining sea, spare tire, tonight show with jay leno, trophy dash, unofficial time
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Two larger pics available by clicking image aboveSaleen is on our radar again. While we enjoyed its new S331 Sport Truck, it's their Mustangs that we really like, particularly the Parnelli Jones Edition. So we were glad to hear about another new Mustang from this small manufacturer. This time it's ......
Tags: award ceremony, black paint, Cannonball Run, cannonball run world events, CannonballRun, celebrity parties, dash plaque, disc brake, east coast cities, flow cooling, high flow, lb ft, luxury hotels, mile time, Parnelli Jones, racecraft suspension, saleen, Saleen S281 Extreme, SaleenS281Extreme, speed transmission, sport truck, stangs, The Great American Run, TheGreatAmericanRun, whiff, willow springs raceway
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Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
In 1983 my family got cable. It was a pretty big deal. So big, in fact, that I remember the first thing I ever saw on cable, Cannonball Run. This summer the Great American Run returns, and with a pretty cool trophy for the winner of the race contest. Saleen is selling 24 of 25 limited edition Mustan......
Tags: Cannonball Run, CannonballRun, mustang, rally, saleen
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Thursday, July 13th, 2006
We're pretty sure that the last thing this great big spinning orb of ours needs is another 'rally.' But that isn't stopping Cannonball World Events from allowing those of you with too much disposal time and income from blasting across the great expanses of Australia.The Cannonball Down Under will be......
Tags: australia, auto channel, average speed, bystanders, Cannonball, Cannonball Run, CannonballRun, cars, designation, Gumball, holden, impending doom, kilometers, orb, organizers, participants, rally
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Thursday, April 6th, 2006
It isn't an official Gumball 3000 until the authorities start impounding cars. The annual event for car-loving millionaire scofflaws kicked off on Sunday in London, and various police forces around Europe have wasted little time in catching up with the cash-happy racers.Wuerzburg, Germany authoritie......
Tags: authorities, autograph, bentley, Cannonball Run, CannonballRun, cars, celebrity, debauchery, europe, exotic car, ExoticCar, exotics, ferrari, german police, Gumball, gumball 3000, Gumball3000, Gumballer, high speed, Hugh Hefner, HughHefner, ilk, infractions, Jodie Kidd, JodieKidd, lamborghini, little time, maserati, millionaire, nod, One Lap Of America, OneLapOfAmerica, photograph, police forces, porsche, rally, rolls royce, RollsRoyce, snoop dogg, SnoopDogg, thailand, Wuerzburg
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Monday, April 3rd, 2006
The Cannonball Run is returning to America. Named for the highly illegal (and surely equally entertaining) Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash founded by Car & Driver vet Brock Yates, this celeb and party-soaked cross-country run is actually an unsanctioned offspring of the ......
Tags: automotive journalism, Brock Yates, BrockYates, Cannonball Baker, Cannonball Run, CannonballBaker, CannonballRun, captain chaos, CaptainChaos, car amp, car and driver, CarAndDriver, celeb, checkpoints, debauchery, Dom Deluise, DomDeluise, elder statesman, green flag, heir, iteration, lap of america, memorial trophy, offspring, One Lap Of America, racetracks, sea to shining sea, star collector, trophy dash
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Friday, March 10th, 2006
National road rallies are nothing new for North American enthusiasts. Brock Yates' Cannonball Run offshoot, the One Lap Of America has been plugging away in earnest for decades now. But for those without big budgets, trans-continental automotive hooliganism has remained somewhat less accessible.Ente......
Tags: babe, Big Apple, Big Easy, BigApple, BigEasy, Cannonball Run, CannonballRun, Hitchhike, Muppet, new orleans, New York, NewOrleans, NewYork, NYC, One Lap Of America, OneLapOfAmerica, Road Rally, RoadRally, studebaker
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