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Originally posted by Milu
The "Cannonball Baker sea to shining sea".
The Yates description of the second run in the Daytona with Dan Gurney is a personal favourite. Not forgetting Gurney's reaction on first sight of the Daytona: "it's been cunningly disguised as a race car!"
Sigh: Today we have "celebrities" and "euro-trash" go motorsporting, doubtless we'll be able to read all about it in "OK", Hello" and the other serious motoring press, cunningly disguised as gossip magazines.
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Yes! Yates writing of when they crossed an icy bridge, knowing they'd both be dead if it was he instead of Gurney at the wheel? Great stuff! I found his book to be a fun read... Still the real Cannonball was, in it's all, a pointless exercise. It proved a point of argument that too few of the time cared about. The "things" going on now? They prove only that some people become fools when they have a lot of money. But heck, it's their money...I just hope nobody else gets hurt as they spend it. Me? Even if my lottery numbers came in, I'd pass. Yates is right. The time for such events is long gone.