A cross-country road race is based on an actual event, the Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, organized by Brock Yates to protest the 55 mph speed limit then in effect in the ...

The tradition of dangerous, coast-to-coast driving record attempts has its most visible roots in the 1970s' Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, presented as a drunken, ...

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The cannonball run, most known from the 1981 film "The Cannonball Run," is a cross-country race from New York to Los Angeles. An engineer has become the first person ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Hollywood has been trying to revive the 1981 ...

Photo: Courtesy Brock Yates Jr. Brock Yates, one of the most prolific automotive journalists from America, has passed away yesterday, at the age of 82. Yates is remembered for his long career with Car ...

Brock Yates, the automotive journalist and inventor of The Cannonball Run who wrote the screenplay for the 1981 film about the renegade cross-country road race that starred Burt Reynolds, has died. He ...

Meet the car that turned its single film role into a million bedroom and dorm room posters: the 1979 Lamborghini Countach LP 400 S from the 1981 movie “The Cannonball Run.” Back when Lamborghini was ...

The 1981 comedy classic "The Cannonball Run" was based on a series of illegal coast-to-coast car races held across the United States in the 1970s, but its origins began on two wheels. The events were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tradition of dangerous, coast-to-coast driving record attempts has its most visible roots in the 1970s' Cannonball Baker ...