Cannonball Run Countach Documentary
 

https://youtu.be/8b7erU_DOfE

This is a pretty long video, going to have to set aside a little time to watch this one, looks interesting.

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Just finished it. great story!

Nice of them to tie in Brock Yates and the real Cannonball...more interesting to me than the story about the Countach. But hey, that's just me...

Cool video... And while I'm at it, I don't hate the front spoiler on that Countach.

A lot worse has been done to them over the years.

https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en/news/cannonball-runs-lamborghini-countach-at-the-library-of-congress

Jack May was a riot! :) Also some good porsche content.

If I'm not mistaken the P-car guy was Dan Rowzie (sp?) Active in PCA back in the day...

Hey, let's just be happy all hostages made it out....okay?

(edit) When I posted the above, I thought I was posting on the Texas hostage thing...whoops.
But thinking about it, it fits the real Cannonball as well. So I'm leaving it.

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Those two old guys were a hoot. The guy in the left was very familiar looking, I have no idea why.

I met Brock Yates one time, at a birthday party for Anatole Aratunoff. A really nice guy, I think I still have his business card from Car and Driver.

All three of the guys that owned that Countach were blithering idiots. Especially the second owner. Typical Lambo owners, unfortunately. Bob Wallace must be spinning in his grave.

I'm a bit over 7mins in and so far this video is great.

I'd like to be able to read some of the articles by BY that were quoted in the video.

Here's the main cannonball article that BY wrote in 1972
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/a15143608/the-cannonball-baker-sea-to-shining-sea-memorial-trophy-dash-archived-feature/

I'm about halfway through it, really entertaining.

The comment that most car guys had never seen one in person when the movie came out resonates with me and probably most of us. It reminds me of the first time I saw one in person. It was 1983 and I was on a first or second date with a girl in high school. We pulled up to a light and on the cross street to our left I saw the black nose of a car in the left turn lane hidden behind the car on it's right. At first I couldn't even say the name the car but when the Lamborghini's light turned green, it turned in front of us and started pulling away, I started freaking out. The girl was really amused and commented that she thought I was so excited I was going to cum in my pants or something to that affect. Realize this is a girl I barely knew at this point. Later that night we were making out, I excused myself to go pee and then I realized I couldn't pee in my current state. She realized my situation and said, "what's wrong, did you see a Lamborghini?" :)

Very cool video…and very well done. Thanks for posting. Back in the day when they actually ran the race, 2 of the salesmen at the dealership at which I worked, ran the race in 911’s a few times. They are pictured on Car and Driver’s cover next to the red 911 on the roof of the Red Ball Garage in NYC where the race began. They had a plethora of stories. Brock Yates sent one of the guys a really neat framed poster that was a picture of the USA with their route mapped out and the cover of that magazine inset. It hung behind his desk in the show room.

Pwd72s: which “Porsche guy” were you referring to in the video as Dan Rowzie? I missed that. Dan was a local guy and a customer of ours…worked on his cars many times. I’m going to have to review the video and look for him.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1642340215.jpg

So cool, I figured some of y'all on here would know someone who had participated in the race.
The only time I ever saw a Countach in the wild was November 1984 when I was in Nassau, Bahamas. I was walking in the market district and a low and wide red car came by me and had to stop at the traffic light. I was 19 years old and was with my parents. I remember quickly turning to them all excited and said "that's a Lamborghini Countach"!!!!! I stood there looking at it until it pulled away and I remember that it looked so wide that it took up a lane and a half on those narrow streets. The Countach is such a badazz looking car for sure.


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LOL, great story.

My wife is used to me reacting when I see cars. The first time that I saw a Carrera GT (on 518 in Pearland in heavy traffic) or a Lotus 7 (actual Lotus, not a Caterham, at a Starbucks by Baybrook mall), or seeing a Pagani Huayra on West Gray St in River Oaks, I got excited and animated and pulled quick U-turns.

I submitted an entry to run in one of the races that came after Brock’s involvement. 1982 or 1983, I can’t remember which now. I was going to run it in a Porsche 911, fortunately I decided not to make the trip.

I’ve listen to a lot of Ed Bolian’s stories on the record runs, he has a bunch of them on his YouTube channel. I don’t think there’s anybody that knows more about that subject than he does. As nuts as the runs were in the early days, what these latest records have done is insane. I have maintained a fairly high average speed for an hour or two, a couple times. I cannot imagine doing it for 25 or 30 hours.

I would also suggest that you check out his personal website, edbolian.com.

After Yates decided to not have the Cannonball again, he had One Lap Around America (or something like that). It was a predetermined, timed route all the way around the country with check points where your time was recorded (trying to eliminate the 100+ MPH speeds). These two guys also participated in that race ...maybe in a BMW...can't remember.

The One Lap races generally made a stop in Oklahoma at the Hallett racetrack. I attended a few of those events as a spectator. I thought the long loop around the US was a bad idea. The total distance was much greater than the Cannonball races, I can’t imagine sitting in a car for that many days on end.

That was one point the guy on the left (of the 2 guys discussing their participation in the Cannon Ball) was making. He said “the beginning and the end were fun, the 2500 miles in the middle was boring”!

I’ve driven from the middle of the country to the north east corner of the US and from the middle of the country to LA. Both trips absolutely sucked.