IIA + No Ladder = Broken Body

[Sailor Steve]

All of those movies missed the truth, or rather were loosely based on it. There really was a Cannonball Rally:
http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/mph/bro...umn-170087.php

Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash in 1971--the infamous cross-country race,New York to L.A.--that led to five major motion pictures (including Cannonball Run,which I wrote) and several idiotic copies, both here and in Europe.

The big blast came when superstar driver Dan Gurney and I drove a Ferrari Daytona coast-to-coast in just under 36 hours.When asked how fast we went,Gurney told the L.A.Times,"We never exceeded 185 mph."That was true, in that the Daytona ran out of steam at 176 mph on I-10.