Back in the 1970s, when a self-driving car meant a brick on the throttle, people raced each other from coast to coast to protest national speed limits and to celebrate American freedom and also ...

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 ...

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The 1981 comedy classic "The Cannonball Run" was based on a series of illegal coast-to-coast car races held across the United States in the 1970s, but its origins began on two wheels. The events were ...

The 1979 Lamborghini Countach from 1981’s The Cannonball Run movie has been added to Hagerty’s National Historic Vehicle Register. The National Historic Vehicle Register was created in 2013 in ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Hollywood has been trying to revive the 1981 ...

If you grew up in the 80s and you’ve always loved cars, there’s no way you don’t know how awesome a movie The Cannonball Run was. While the plot was fictional, the entire premise was based on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tradition of dangerous, coast-to-coast driving record attempts has its most visible roots in the 1970s' Cannonball Baker ...

Editor's note: This version of the story corrects the attribution of a quote about driving 170 mph to Dan Gurney. Longtime Car and Driver editor Brock Yates, the creator of the popular Cannonball ...