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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 Challenge, an unsanctioned speed record drive from New York to Los Angeles Erwin "Cannon Ball" Baker's 1933 drive from New York City to Los Angeles; Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an outlaw car race run several times in the 1970s, memorializing Erwin Baker's drive
In 2013, Bolian broke the Cannonball Run Challenge record with a time of 28:50. The Cannonball Run challenge is inspired from the movie The Cannonball Run, where you drive from New York to LA. He started at Red Ball Garage in New York, and ended at the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, California. His co-driver was Dave Black, and his spotter ...
Cannonball Run Europe is an illegal annual 2,500 mile (4,200 km) international motor rally which takes place on public roads with a different route across Europe each year. The route is kept secret and only revealed to drivers at the start of each day of the six-day event, which historically includes time spent at a world-class circuit. [1] [2] [3]
The building is located along what was known as the Military Road. Because of the marshy land in the area, wagons and buggies had to be pulled out of the mud. [2] In 1913 the road became a part of the Red Ball Route, a highway that linked the Minneapolis/St. Paul area with St. Louis. It received its name from the highway signs used to mark the ...
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Speed Zone (also known as Cannonball Run III, Cannonball Fever, One for the Money and Speedzone Fever) is a 1989 American action comedy film [2] set around an illegal cross-country race (inspired by the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash).