{"id":232,"date":"2018-09-22T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T17:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2018-09-26T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T15:57:40","slug":"cannonball-run-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/cannonball-run-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannonball Run Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Car F(r)iends<\/p>\n<p>With the recent passing of Burt Reynolds, clips from his movies have been all over the TV. One of his best-known films is\u00a0\u00a0<em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>Cannonball Run.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As most of you probably know, the Cannonball Run&#8211;officially known as the\u00a0 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash&#8211;was a real underground race across the USA, run a few times in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Besides protesting speed limits, the race creators really wanted to test which vehicle was best to drive long and fast, coast-to-coast in real-world conditions. The best American cars (and trucks), as well as European cars and exotics, competed head-to-head.<\/p>\n<p>A team of filmmakers is working on a feature-length <a href=\"http:\/\/realcannonball.com\/\">real Cannonball Run documentary<\/a> about this iconic secret race. If you were there or have Cannonball material please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/motorreporters\">get in touch with them<\/a>. They found several of the Cannonball outlaw racers and even hunted down a few surviving real Cannonball Run cars.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to catch up with one Cannonballer and his car the documentary crew had not located yet: Ed Brewerton and the American Motors AMX he ran with his brother Tom in the 1971 and 1972 Cannonballs. Here is our short interview for you:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-232-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/video\/cannonball-sm3.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/video\/cannonball-sm3.mp4\">http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/video\/cannonball-sm3.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>If you prefer to view this video at higher quality, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/video\/cannonball-final.mov\">find it on our website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I can&#8217;t wait to see the finished documentary!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on drivin&#8217;,<\/p>\n<p>Duane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Car F(r)iends With the recent passing of Burt Reynolds, clips from his movies have been all over the TV. One of his best-known films is\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0Cannonball Run. As most of you probably know, the Cannonball Run&#8211;officially known as the\u00a0 Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash&#8211;was a real underground race across the USA, run a few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/cannonball-run-documentary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cannonball Run Documentary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gW0j-3K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mustangirs.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}