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Red Ball Garage in New York on East 31st Street The Portofino Hotel (bottom right) in Redondo Beach, California. A Cannonball Run is an unsanctioned speed record for driving across the United States, typically accepted to run from New York City's Red Ball Garage to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach near Los Angeles, covering a distance of about 2,906 miles (4,677 km). [1]
The Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known as the Cannonball Baker or Cannonball Run, was an unofficial, unsanctioned automobile race run five times in the 1970s from New York City and Darien, Connecticut, on the East Coast of the United States to the Portofino Inn [1] in the Los Angeles suburb of Redondo Beach, California.
Cannonball Run [ edit ] In November 1971, Gurney and co-driver Brock Yates won the first competitive running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash , known widely as the Cannonball Run, an unofficial, unsanctioned automobile race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California .
Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an outlaw car race run several times in the 1970s, memorializing Erwin Baker's drive; Australian Cannonball Cup, a street race from Melbourne to Perth held in 1984; Northern Territory Cannonball Run, a competitive motorsport event staged on public roads in 1994 in Australia
Conceived by John Ficarra, The 2904 arose as a response to the high-end “lifestyle” automotive rallies such as Bullrun and Gumball 3000.It also serves as a response to the high-dollar coast to coast record attempts by Alexander Roy, as well as drawing inspiration from endurance events like The 24 Hours of LeMons and the original Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.
Erwin George "Cannon Ball" Baker (March 12, 1882 – May 10, 1960) was an American motorcycle and automobile racer and organizer in the first half of the 20th century. Baker began his public career as a vaudeville performer, but turned to driving and racing after winning a dirt-track motorcycle race at Crawfordsville, Indiana, in about 1904.
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The Cannonball Run is a 1981 American action-comedy film [5] directed by Hal Needham, produced by Hong Kong firm Golden Harvest, and distributed by 20th Century-Fox.Filmed in Panavision, it features an all-star ensemble cast, including Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Jackie Chan, Sammy Davis Junior and Dean Martin.