In 1971 Brock Yates, a journalist for Car and Driver magazine, initiated a unique protest of the national speed limit: an outlaw TT race from coast to coast on public roads. Yates named the rally the “Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash”. Today many people know the rally as “The Cannonball Run,” thanks to the film starring Burt Reynolds and Farrah Fawcett for which Yates penned the screenplay.This is the first book to tell the real story of the Cannonball. No one is better poised to capture the excitement of the actual event than its creator, Brock Yates. Contains 100 black & white and 25 colour illustrations. 256 pages, English.