Posted on 08/02/2007 10:44:29 AM PDT by GSWarrior
The Colorado State Patrol is on alert today for cars zooming west on Interstate 70, participants of the Cannonball Run, a race from the East Coast to the West Coast.
The local office of the State Patrol was notified by teletype today from Denver to be on the lookout for an array of fast-moving cars.
“We got people out looking for them and an aircraft up looking for them in case we have to do some speed enforcement,” said Troy Marvel, communications officer for the State Patrol.
The State Patrol is looking for fast-moving exotic cars such as Porsches, Maseratis and Ferraris that may be participating in the race, Marvel said.
Damn. Beat me to it by seconds.
Cannonball Run ping. What a great movie that was in the 70’s. I think they should try it again in 2007. Might as well since they are repeating all the movies anyway.
“teletype”
???
They don’t have cell phones at the Patrol...
Didn’t they make a sequel?
“teletype”
???
ROTFLMAO Me too! I looked all over to confirm the date of the article. Sometimes postings are reprints of old articles and I thought maybe was from the 1970’s. Too funny.
“Don’t talk about him. You know I don’t like it when you talk about him.”
I liked The Gumball Rally, too. Though Cannonball Run was fun too.
It would never be as good. Although I'm sure Jackie Chan would be willing to do another one.
most of the people in it would probably come back for it, unfortunately my two favourites from the movies have passed on.
It’s a mad mad mad mad mad world
And now my friend, the first-a rule of Italian driving.
[Franco rips off his rear-view mirror and throws it out of the car]
Franco: What's-a behind me is not important.
From the CSP website:
"Communications Director - Major Kris Meredith"
Somebody is having some fun today...
I hope the police don’t resort to profiling...
The Sheik: My driving is rivaled only by the lightning bolts from the heavens!
Sheik’s Sister: So you still intend to enter the race with the infidel Americans?
The Sheik: My dear sister, the Cannonball shall fall to the forces of Islam! I swear it!
Ever see Vanishing Point?
Last time : Dennis Rodman got stopped several times, stole gas from Glenwood station...?
The police were polite is not giving speeding tickets...
Burt Reynolds wanted to be in a movie that featured a bunch of his friends. That is the reason “Cannonball Run” was filmed.
“What’s behind me is not important.”
I remember hearing about that. Was he involved in the Run?
Actually I do believe they made a sequel right after the first one, but was not as good. Might as well make another one in 2007 that really stinks. lol.
Gumball Rally was much better,
I did not see that. I will have to take a look in the video store.
That was great. Not sure if it was a joke I got to drive around Napoli.
“Watch for a white Challenger, license plates initial OA-5599. Colorado plates. Last seen heading for Dunphy on US 40 at cruising speed. We have reason to believe that it’s supercharged, so maintain double alert ‘til you spot
it, and then call in for instructions. Over and out.”
"Some things just get meaner as they get older" - Michael Sarrazin speaking of his Shelby Cobra.
No... haven’t seen that. Worthwhile?
Teletype? Haven’t they replaced those obsolete Model 19’s yet? The Model 28 is a real jewel!
It’s considered one of the best car chase movies ever. I liked it.
That movie had the FASTEST VW bug! It kept getting ahead of the two chase cars.
Also from Gumball Rally:
“55 is fast enough to kill you, but just slow enough to let you think you are safe”.
They started a series called Drive that had the same kind of race. It was pulled after 3 episodes (7 days.) It was just becoming interesting.
I think you forgot a “mad.”
Ugh! I hate when they pull a series so quick. They do not allow a show to build an audience anymore. Seinfeld did horrible in the ratings, but built to what it was at the end. Today Seinfeld would have been cancelled for sure and we would not have gotten to enjoy the show.
Maybe he was thinking of spam .... spam spam spam spam spam spam and eggs.
Brock Yates
Brock Yates was executive editor of Car and Driver, an American automotive magazine. He was a pit reporter for CBS’ coverage of certain NASCAR Nextel Cup (then Winston) series races in the 1980s, including the Daytona 500. He was also one of two commentators on the TNN show American Sports Cavalcade with Steve Evans. Paul Page and Don Garlits appeared on the show, but it was primarily Brock and Steve.
Yates is a best-selling author, most frequently about automotive topics and motor sport, and a commentator for the cable television Speed Channel. Some of his articles and commentaries for Car and Driver magazine and other publications have had considerable impact within the auto industry and the general public, beginning with his 1968 critique of the American auto industry, its management and its products, “The Grosse Pointe Myopians.” A recurring theme of his nonfiction work has been the way American automotive management has frequently grown arrogant, lost touch with its markets, and failed to respond to changing public needs and tastes, technology, and energy and environmental concerns.
[edit] Cannonball Run
Yates’ father was Raymond F. Yates, a technical writer. Yates was inspired by Erwin G. “Cannonball” Baker, (1882-1960), who travelled across the USA several times, to initiate the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. This illegal cross-continent road race was a protest against the 55 MPH speed limit. The first race was won by him and former race driver, Formula One and Le Mans winner Dan Gurney in a Ferrari. It took them 35 hours, 53 minutes to drive from New York to Los Angeles.
Brock Yates wrote the Cannonball Run film with the intention of the lead role going to Steve McQueen. McQueen was diagnosed with cancer early in 1980 and unable to consider doing the movie. He died in November 1980. This series of circumstances led to another actor being considered, one for whom Brock Yates had co-written a screenplay that became that actor’s most commercially successful movie: Burt Reynolds. The movie was Smokey and the Bandit. Reynolds had a series of flops following that movie; so motion picture studio 20th Century Fox suggested he take on another “car” movie role. Reynolds refused but after one more flop decided to follow their advice. It is well known Brock Yates was not pleased with the final outcome of his film as it was originally written from a more realistic “true to the race” vantage point. The race also served as inspiration for the movies Cannonball (1976), The Gumball Rally (1976), Cannonball Run (1981), and Cannonball Run II (1984). Brock Yates along with friend, director, and famed stunt man Hal Needham, also wrote Smokey and the Bandit II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brock_Yates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shining-Sea_Memorial_Trophy_Dash
Oh, yeah. Gumball Rally cracked me up. “Mr. Guts” - say n’more...
In the Wiki article;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shining-Sea_Memorial_Trophy_Dash
one of the names on the chart at the bottom is George Willig. I wonder if this is the “Human Fly” that climbed the WTC?
Yeah, Bullitt is awesome. I think they are planning on remaking that one as well. There is a movie coming out next year called Doomsday. The director said it has a car chase scene that starts out like Bullitt and ends like The Road Warrior, nice.....
He was driving a borrowed Italian sports car; I forget which one.
He was stopped in Cortez, then Summit county. The police sucked up because he was a celebrity until the stop was reported. Then the various supervisors issued belated ‘warnings.’
He bolted on the gas in Glenwood Springs. The excuse was that he offered his signature in trade...something about a t-shirt too ?
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