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RTT Interview from 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBQJ9oLC-P4

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Remembering Brock Yates and the Cannonball
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dNs-aVYxOQ
by Drivers Talk Radio

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Interview with Meguires Car Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6-Ptduhg2k

[h=1]R.I.P. Brock Yates, longtime Car And Driver editor and writer of Cannonball Run[/h] By Dennis DiClaudio
Oct 7, 2016 1:35 PM



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Brock Yates, the auto enthusiast and writer behind The Cannonball Run (both the actual race and the film series it inspired), died on Wednesday due to complications from Alzheimer’s disease, Deadline reports. The Lockport, NY native authored 14 automotive-themed books and served as executive editor of Car And Driver magazine for many years. He was 82.
In 1971, Yates and fellow C&D staffer Steve Smith conceived the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an automotive race with no set route from New York City to Redondo Beach, California, as a tongue-in-cheek protest against increasingly strict traffic laws. Although the first race wasn’t particularly competitive, due to only one car participating, Yates did manage to win the first actual contest later that same year.
Yates co-wrote the screenplay to the 1980 box office hit Smokey And The Bandit II, alongside the film’s director Hal Needham, leading to an opportunity for him to adapt his own cross-country race for the big screen. The first Cannonball Run film earned $72 million, making it the sixth highest-grossing film of 1981 and cementing the image of a Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin dressed as priests in a red Ferrari 308 GTS into the public consciousness.
Here’s Yates discussing his lifelong automotive obsession for Car Crazy Central:

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Cannonball Run Revisited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VJxHdeQRY
by Pam Yates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnYF_OwN2Gs
by Racer Oscar Koveleski

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Cannonball Run Revisited
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VJxHdeQRY
by Racing Legend Dan Gurney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZODvbLhYZw
by Judy Stropus

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Tributes to Brock Yates are posted in Tampa Racing Legends at post #47
https://www.tamparacing.com/forums/g...ml#post9381780

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Brock Yates pub was named after the movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NunXp5JakY
by Gary Swiatowy

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Cannonball Run Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtMvkA84s4Y
By Hal Needam

and the real one full length
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRYu0orf3Sw

but if you prefer a slightly smaller screen..... full length
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7l3V_BwH48

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Cannonball Run II opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cArRQP39qjA
by muvie4you

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Cannonball III opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9V-k9srJk0

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There's very few connections to the Cannonball Run series. Producer, Raymond Chow, Jamie Farr reprising his role as the Shiek and it IS titled "Cannonball Run 3" in some territories. It was called Speed Zone in North America to attract a younger crowd who had no attachment to the other films.