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The Gumball Rally is a 1976 American action comedy film, directed and co-written by Charles Bail, a former stunt coordinator also known as Chuck Bail, about an illicit coast-to-coast road race.
Gumball 3000 is a brand known for the annual Gumball 3000 Rally, an international celebrity motor rally that takes place on public roads. The brand was founded in 1999 by English entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper, [ 1 ] with his vision to combine cars, music, fashion and popular culture.
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 Gumball 3000 is an annual 3000 mile (4,800 km) international rally which takes place on public roads, which travels around the world.Although set up as a rally with no official timing, or prizes for reaching check points first, during the rally, some participants have been fined for speeding and other traffic offences by the police in countries they passed through, [2] cars have been ...
Alex Roy at the 2007 Gumball 3000 rally launch party. In August 2013, Adam "Afroduck" Tang, a Canadian national, set a new unofficial record time of 24 minutes 7 seconds around Manhattan in a manual 2006 BMW Z4 3.0si, filmed it, and put it on YouTube with the title "Fastest Lap of Manhattan 2013". He began the loop out at 116th St and stopped ...
Charles Bail, sometimes credited as Chuck Bail, was an American film director, actor, and stuntman.He directed five full-length films: Black Samson (1974), [1] Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975), [2] The Gumball Rally (1976), [3] Choke Canyon (1986), [4] and Street Corner Justice (1996). [5]
He starred in The Gumball Rally (1976), then had lead roles in the Iran-shot film Caravans (1978), the Canadian mystery thriller Double Negative (1980), and the vigilante crime drama Fighting Back (1982). He hosted the April 15, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live. Sarrazin increasingly shifted to television work.
They were originally involved with the Gumball 3000 car rally in Europe and moved to the US to set up the Bullrun rally as a USA-based annual event. They created a spin-off TV show based on the rally and were executive producers of both the Bullrun Reality Show and a documentary about the rally, Cops, Cars and Superstars. [citation needed]