# Participating in Cannonball/beating somebody's time.

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**Created:** [August 9, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/participating-in-cannonball-beating-somebodys-time/246013 "2009-08-09T18:42:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/participating-in-cannonball-beating-somebodys-time/246013/1 "2009-08-09T18:42:24Z")

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I’m thinking of either making a solo run covered by video to beat one of the records set by other people in a car, or just participate in one.

> **[Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Baker_Sea-To-Shining-Sea_Memorial_Trophy_Dash)**
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> The Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, widely known simply as the Cannonball Baker or Cannonball Run, was an unofficial, unsanctioned automobile race run five times in the 1970s from New York City and Darien, Connecticut, on the U.S. Atlantic coast, to the Portofino Inn in Redondo Beach, California.
> Conceived by car magazine writer and auto racer Brock Yates and fellow Car and Driver editor Steve Smith, the first run was not a real competitive race, as there was only one t...

> **[Cannonball Run returning to U.S. this summer](https://www.autoblog.com/2006/04/28/cannonball-run-returning-to-u-s-this-summer/)**
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> The Cannonball Run is returning to America. Named for the highly illegal (and surely equally entertaining)
> Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Tro

The original cannonball run was started by Car And Driver editor after all, we could just do it for the legacy.