Let's face it: Some movies really are products of their time and place. Take a bunch of A-list comedic actors, put them in sports cars and let them race across the country with a total disrespect for ...

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 ...

Newly-solvent General Motors is looking to get into the movie business, with the car manufacturer in talks with producer Al Ruddy to finance a remake of the 1981 Burt Reynolds comedy “The Cannonball ...

Speed junkies have been blasted after boasting of setting a new record for the Cannonball Run. The illegal US road race made famous by the 1981 Burt Reynolds film is a challenge to see who can drive ...

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 ...

Cannonball Run records are on the rise. Don’t know what they are? Think back to the hit 1981 The Cannonball Run with Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin and Dom DeLuise, which popularized the ...

Ed Bolian set out to beat the cross-country record for driving from New York to Los Angeles by a stark margin. Driving at an average speed of 98 mph, with the top speed of 158 mph, his Atlanta-based ...

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, ...

A black Lamborghini that introduced Americans to the Italian carmaker's signature style is the latest addition to the National Historic Vehicle Register. The two-door coupe, a 1979 Lamborghini ...

Drivers, start your engines! It appears that the famed racing comedy, Cannonball Run is back for another lap across America. The 1981 original featured Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise as well as cameos by ...

J.J. McClure (Burt Reynolds) and his companion Victor (Dom DeLuise) are preparing themselves for the lucrative Cannonball Run, which stretches right across the USA from the East Coast to the West ...