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on: 08-17-2004
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--Headquarters, we're still in pursuit of the black Lamborghini...
*Car 42, you've been in pursuit for 2 hours, another five minutes and you'll be in Arizona.*
--Yeah, and we're gonna stay in pursuit until we catch them.
*It didn't take us that long to catch Dillinger.*
KW: The Cannonball Run |
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| #3 |
8-17-2004 @ 09:09:00 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#1, The ambulance used in this movie was the actual "TransCon Medivac" that Brock Yates and his crew drove in the 1979 Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, the cross-country race that this movie is based on. It had a hopped up 440 with a beefed up Torqueflite, and didn't finish the full race, running into transmission problems in Arizona.
Yates wrote the original version of the Cannonball Run script, BTW, mainly because he was tired of other people ripping off his idea with movies like Cannonball and The Gumball Rally.
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8-17-2004 @ 09:19:02 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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Yates' book "Cannonball" was a great read. All the stuff you could ever want to know about the races, with memories from a bunch of the racers and quite a bit about the filming of the first movie, too.
He had some amusing anecdotes about duping some cops that pulled them over in the 1979 race (with his wife in the back of the ambulance posing as a sick patient), and about an Arizona cop with a hotted-up Dodge patrol car keeping up with his Ferrari Daytona when he codrove with Dan Gurney in the 1971 race.
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| #7 |
8-18-2004 @ 08:00:30 AM |
| Posted By : V8Tbird |
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Its like my Dad always said, Yes you can out run cop cars, Yes some times you can even out run a Cop Chopper, but you can never out run their radio. (The only Cop in his home town used to go out and drag race his curser with all the local hot rodders)
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8-19-2004 @ 09:28:42 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#9, Yeah, they went with them, I left that part out. But Yates quotes it was a 440 wedge.
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12-21-2005 @ 09:11:41 PM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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Ha, I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw this picture, went to add the dialogue, only to find it was the KW's for the pic itself :D :D
[Edited by Low-Tech Redneck on 12-21-2005 @ 09:12:22 PM]
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