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From: jss@ihu1e.UUCP (Smith)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: "Cannonball Run" movies
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 12:58:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 12:58:10 1985
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> In article <2553@sunybcs.UUCP> ughenry@sunybcs.UUCP (Henry Neeman) writes:
> >Cannonball Run", etc., these are the facts as I have been given to
> >understand:
> >	1)  There is a real-life "Cannonball Run" held annually.
> 
> 	Yes, the offical name is "The Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea
> Memorial Trophy Dash", however it is not run annually, it was run at irregular
> intervals in the '70s. I understand that it has not been run for five years or
> so. If you can find someplace that has back issues of "Car and Driver" for
> that period you can find the race writeups in them. Basicly, the race started
> at a point in or near New York City and ended in or near LA. The drivers were
> free to chose any route between those two points, only total elapsed time
> counted. If I remember right the winning time for the first Cannonball was
> around 38 hours, by the last race I heard of winning time was down to about 33
> hours, impressive.

There is a race that is held annually from Chicago to some little town in
northern Wisconsin.  Hardly "Sea to shining Sea" but it does net some big
speeding ticks :-)
-- 
J. S. Smith AT&T IW
	There are lots of opinions around this place, but these 
	are mine and no one else's (pitty the poor soul if they 
	do share mine.)