Gumball Rally - Los Angeles: Cobra vs Daytona!

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The Gumball Rally is a 1976 film about a coast-to-coast road race. It was inspired by the actual Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash run held by Brock Yates that inspired several other movies, like Cannonball with David Carradine, also from 1976. The main difference is while Cannonball is an action film, The Gumball Rally is a comedy, just like the later series of Cannonball movies starring Burt Reynolds and many others. The Gumball Rally is often considered better and less infantile[citation needed] compared to the later, star-studded exploitations of The Cannonball Run, which even copied the running gags of the police man chasing the racers through the whole USA. Though Gumball Rally's entire premise is copied from the actual cross country race the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash which was created and organized by Brock Yates who wrote the script for The Cannonball Run film.

The Gumball Rally stars Raul Julia, Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durran, Tim McIntire, and Susan Flannery, and was directed and co-written by Chuck Bail.

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[redmr2na]

The sound as they both come up the ramp out of the LA river, is one of my favorite sounds of this whole movie. I love the cobra. The thing just raped the Daytona off the ramp.

[mercfan382]

The end when they're exiting the river...the Cobra V-8 and the Ferrari V-12 together racing through the gears is better than Pavarotti...

[badmts]

actually its interesting in that Brock Yates wrote the ""Cannonball Run" movie and drove in the real event IN A DAYTONA! with Dan Gurney as the ringer rather than "FRANCO" . HE HAS VOWED TO NEVER SEE GUMBALL.The stuff in gumball is closer to fact (van with 200 gals,cobra,ferreri,porsche) than cannonball except name "Cannonball Baker Sea to Sea Memorial Trophy Dash" is the name of the real events from the 1970's

[manga12]

eh I dont know I think the origional chargers were real beasts, eh I would love to have any of them really, but out of my price range and not at these gas prices, though a shelby, old mustang,corvette, porshe, lambergini, ferrarri, or meseratti, I would love to have, or best of all, an old auburn 851 speedster, they were built around here, they were fast and had that art deco class, and being from around auburn ind. you do like your car heritage, its in your blood if born in north indiana.

[omcx1e]

And if you want the car that was the most radical drag racer right off the showroom floor you want the 1968 Hemi Super Stock Barracuda or Dart. Nothing even came close to them. Wheelstands and very low 10s right out of the box. Classic drag racer that is. There are a whole bunch of cars in the 10s now, and the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport which just squeaked into the 9s. .

[omcx1e]

And the 1997 Viper is nothing compared to the Viper SRT-10 ACR, and the coming 2013 Viper GTS-R. The SRT-10 ACR smashed the Nurburgring record, besting even the insane Porsche 911 GT2 RS as the fastest true production car. Being too arrogant to allow an American car to hold the official record, the officials pretended that the Radical SR8 and Gumpert Apollo are production cars (hilarious) so they could pretend the record is still in European hands.

[omcx1e]

Exactly.

[J Que]

Poor Rosco gets the last laugh

[manga12]

Well that would be what I read earlier, tonight, that is all the stuff you were saying. but today both types of this cars are out of my price range but I would love to have either.

[Joe Anderson]

Google "Boss 429 Mustang." That's the car, and, yes, they made around 500 of them. Ford built429 Boss Hemi engine to run in the Torinos that were racing in NASCAR, and to make the engine legal Ford needed to make a minimum of 500 production cars for homologation rules. They decided to stuff the 429 into the Mustang and contracted Kar Kraft to do the build. They had to do some modifications to the Mustang to fit the wide hemi in the engine bay.

[manga12]

the 429 cobra jet is the car I am thinking of. and there were about 500 that were 429 hemi engines, I read years ago, big ass muscle car engines they were.