BangShift Question Of The Day: If You Were To Do The Real-Deal Cannonball Run, What Would You Drive?

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I’ll cop to the reason why this question has popped up again: Car and Driver magazine recently had a reunion of racers from the original Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash events, where they shared the memories they had of hauling massive amounts of ass across America in the days before satellite tracking and serious helicopter […]

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There is a Community build on Model Car mag's forum in which everyone builds what they would drive for such a race. My idea is to buy a 10 year old, Grandma Gold Impala, with granny inflicted dents and all, beef it up with police parts and a stronger engine/transaxle and then fill the back seat with electronics and an electronic warfare specialist. The car would scream, "Pay no attention to me dearie, I'm on the way to Bingo." Maybe add a, "My grandkid is an honor student at Brock Yates Middle School!" bumper sticker.