Seriously. Just paying for the spotter’s gas and hotels alone would add up. I thought cannonball runs were a lot more ‘casual’. This seemed like a competition with the amount of commitment from so many people.
110 mph average over thst fistance is extremely good. I had 85-90 mph average Stoclholm to Monte Carlo bit then we drove legally for like 6 hours through Sweden. 18.5 h Stoclholm Monte Carlo in a BMW M5 E39 delimited 😁
They make boxes that can hook up to a tv or computer. Pretty cool amateur radio users and radio scanner freaks do it. I’ve always wanted do hook up a big tv and do it.
They make setups for home where you can put an antenna on your roof and view ADS-B information. These are usualy used to feed info for Flightaware or FlightRadar and similar. The trick we used is to also incorporate a GPS antenna so that the station would recognize that the antenna is moving and recalculate relative direction and heading of the planes nearby based on the updating GPS. We then used a modified version of a program called tar1090 to display the planes on a map and alert to planes registered to government agencies.
@@PvtFigerNaggot_8 Those flight tracking apps predominately get their information from crowdsourcing from people who have an ADS-B antenna at home for hobby purposes. To avoid dead zones we bought our own antenna with us to feed those apps. Also having local data ensures that we get timely alerts not just when those apps decide to update. We can also control how we are alerted instead of being beholden to the app. Also some apps allow plane owners to "hide" their planes on the app for a fee where you cannot "hide" from locally sourced data. See the whole Elon Musk situation for that one.
get some powdered potassium silicate on ebay. mix a bunch in some clear coat and spray your license plates. they will look normal until uv or camera lights hit them, they will glow so bright on camera no licesne plate reader would be able to pick them up and its not illegal to do... yet.
@@HondaFit4Adventure you misunderstood. potassium silicate isnt soluble in paint. the potassium silicate particles under the clear coat over a license plate 100% block camera readers. I wrote a paper on it in graduate school for my chemistry degree. You can actually put potassium silicate in clear coat and under certain conditions outside it will make your paint on your car glow colorful. its pretty neat. you can also put it on your face and it would blur facial recognition.
I always avoid cops in my m5 and all I have is a v1 gen 2. It gets the job done. You just have to disable gesture control because the alerts will drive you batshit crazy!
Impressive understanding and application of technology, but it seems the original idea of Cannonball has been lost. Drive Fast, Drive Safe. Save the Manuals and Rock n Roll!
Totally agree. It looks like they're missing the forest for the trees, but I understand why they decided to go this route as the amount of technological advancements makes it a very different animal in 2022 compared to 1971. However, I would think there might be something about things being _so_ complicated with technology that people and police have forgotten the analog thinking. It might be interesting to see an attempt with old-school methods and slide under the radar by not running radars or jammers or anything extra.
The Smokies are running more sophisticated technology and better comms including the iPhone equipped Karens. The counter measures of technology and team allow for a chance of greater success against the progress of the playing field while ensuring safety of the deviants and the public. The romance of nostalgia is great for stories but not success in the modern world.
General comment towards some of the critics commenting below saying how awful/risky these projects are. I'd like to point out that IF someone ever got really hurt/died, yes, the media would have a field day with it as an easy target, and the whole legal climate would change dramatically. Reality is that it's not about the speed they're driving. Those of us who've broken or even attempted the cross country records are generally very experienced drivers, including at high speeds, have high performing mechanically solid vehicles with excellent safety features, brakes, etc. and because of the task at hand, we are 100% focused on being alert and paying attention to everything around us from LEO to animals to other cars, signaling properly, being smart responsible drivers, just at higher speeds. Comparatively, think about some 17 year old driving while smoking a joint and texting in his chitty corolla with worn brake pads and bald tires. Who is the irresponsible driver? I'd rather be around the cannonball crowd, not the high school stoner in the chitbox personally. saying safety is proportional to speed is like saying health is proportional to age. It just doesn't work that way.
Love the idea, curious tho, with all that technology added into the car would you have to seriously upgrade the charging and battery system due to the upgrades draw consistently?
Newer the car, the bigger charging system/battery and bigger margin within the charging system/ battery. Most of these devices use very little power as well.
I remember reading a story about a couple of guys who tried to drive across literally without stopping, as in the wheels never stopped turning. They used a diesel VW Jetta with a fuel cell in the trunk. They failed when they hit traffic near the end
@@mrobinson4210 you telling me you don’t have 330d or 335d 530d or 535d Bmw which will do a limited 155 mph standard in Europe and at half that will do 55 mpg on a run
I'd say the big issue with diesels is that 1. We don't really get them in the states, and 2. It's comparatively harder to get high power. While you can tune diesel cars, unless someone in the USA could get basically an M5 chassis with a diesel v8 or one of BMW's crazy i6 diesels, then I don't think it's feasible. It would be cool to see a diesel attempt, but It's just not feasible. And @Chief Rocka: If you look at the GPS in the vid, they were doing 190 peak, and averaging well over 100. You need a car that can go over 180, so that you can get from 70 to 140 fast. A 155 limiter probably wouldn't end well for a run here.
I think Myth Busters did a version of that with a moose (testing the degree of damage at different speeds). I seem to recall that higher speeds resulted in less damage. I imagine the higher center of gravity of a moose was a factor, however.
Had 3 deer in front of me on i70 in western Kansas at 3am…80mph. Killed one, assuming I only hit one but there were definitely 3 in the middle of the road. Totaled my wife’s Mazda CX9, lived to tell the tale..no injuries
@Joshua Jones If I lived in deer country, my car or truck would have one of those massive Australian kangaroo bumpers like they use on their road trains.
Pretty much all cameras pick up infrared. Cell phones cameras will, security cameras are better, and cameras explicitly for infrared are of course even better. What would help the infrared camera(s) is having a bright infrared source(s) lighting up everything close and far in something like a 90 degree arc centered on the middle of the front of the car. He needed someone to do the calculations on progress that he just explained a complicated homebrew computer he made to do exactly that? The best thing would be air cover. One of those military drones that could stay on target the whole run with synthetic aperture radar, sensors to pick up the different bands of police radar, lasers, and radios while marking the specifics and location overlaid on a high resolution map that is completely downloaded and accessible without data. Also overlay the Waze, Google, and Apple Maps live crowdsourced data such as police locations and traffic. Im not sure what else since ecms like jamming police radar, radios, and cellular is frowned upon by the FCC and I’m sure any LEO(s) that happen to be in their way. Get sone of the radar absorbing stuff they coat the B-21 raiders or the f-35s with. Redesign the front facing parts of the car to scatter radar and/or use material that does not reflect radar kinda like that old corvette that had to be much closer than other vehicles before police radar returned a speed.
Seriously. Just paying for the spotter’s gas and hotels alone would add up. I thought cannonball runs were a lot more ‘casual’. This seemed like a competition with the amount of commitment from so many people.
I like when they disguise a car. One team used vinyl to make a Mercedes E-Class look like an Accord from the back. Probably the best was a team making an Audi look like a Taurus police car. They blacked out the wheels with silver center caps, used vinyl to reshape the grille and taillights, and 3D printed a blue oval to go over the Audi rings. They even had script in the oval spelling out Audi.
Fascinating, thank you. I'm proud of you spending such an amount of money for this, I can learn a lot about human commitment. As long as the roads were mostly empty I don't see harm. Human nature is cat and mouse.
Loads and loads of money. Fast car, good tech, spotters, determination, lack of fear and some luck.. Would love to know the total cost of the recent winners. Gotta be a great experience regardless and I'd love to see someone beat prior records but on a budget. If even possible.
At these speeds I believe Success is driving against yourself, not Arne / Doug. Set a lower bar and keep it safe. Make it about the drive, not the ultimate time.... Make it a love relationship with your dream car
@@TheNuclearBolton No he didn't. He said it would be hard, not impossible. Hence, knock off a few minutes, not hours. And someone might be able to, not anyone can. If it was easy, someone wouldn't be knocking off just minutes, anybody could knock off hours.
@@TheNuclearBolton Unless you’re in a Porsche 911 Turbo S, it’s gonna be almost impossible to beat 25 hours because 25:39 was during Covid which traffic was almost non-existant, now we are in normal traffic conditions, Someone might get 27 hours or 26:50 tops
Everyone is allowed to break all of the laws they want, as many times as they want and that's not against the law...... if they have enough help and or money.
I think it would be something like an explorer in a grey with a push bumper and everything, and for an engine, I think the mercedes M157 engine tuned to about 800 hp would be good, obviously both the car and the engine would need tons of modifications to be able to run smoothly at 180 mph but it could probably be done.
@@lukedebu5210 I'd say use a Taurus or one of the old Chevy Australian-import cop cars. The explorer chassis just isn't designed to run stable at HIGH speeds like a car can. It could maybe be possible with significant modification to the car, but I personally think you'd be better off with something designed to handle running at 150+, like an audi, merc, BMW, porsche... Basically a german car. The pro move would be to disguise one of the german limos (S8, M5...) as an unmarked car (grey, bumper, etc), hop up the engine, fuel cell, etc. So while I think someone doing a cannonball with something other than a german limo would be cool to see, I just don't think it's possible as the germans seem to be the only ones designing cars to sit comfortably at 150+ on the highway.
Just putting this out there, I am really good at being a spotter for both cops and dynamic traffic situation’s as well as willing to take a hit on my record for being a blocker, all I need is a guarantee that my gasoline and rental car will be paid for and I will have legal assistance if I get jammed up
Hey Josh, This topic was brought up at the Cannonball reunion this year. th-cam.com/video/1ENT2IlzZW8/w-d-xo.html Each era of Cannonballing came with its own Pro's & Cons Even the 70's Cannonballers think it's just as difficult if not more difficult to do it now. Regardless of how you look at it, the days of what we know as Cannonballing are about to change as E.V.s slowly take over. (Also discussed at the reunion)
Great info but what is interesting and what your subscribers want to hear are stories of encounters or near misses with law enforcement, animals, car issues, etc not a list of things a person would put in place to do coast to coast time trial. Kinda like those movies with no characters anyone invests or can identify with
Does anyone remember when the Cannonball Run was legit? No major mods. No high-tech gadgets. No 25+ spotters. No 'home base'. Just 2 guys (or girls or whatever) in a fast car going coast to coast.
Are there any apps right now that can do what this guy explained about the airplanes? Because it would be really nice to have that kind of information alongside Waze like I would pay money for an app like that
He mentioned the app in the video, Highway Radar. One of their features is: Highway Radar collects information about air traffic around though various ADS-B exchange sites (ADSBx, OpenSky). Then it matches every aircraft to multiple registration databases and alerts drivers only on those which can potentially do traffic enforcement.
depending on how many stops they do, they should have a vehicle thats full of fuel ready at each fuel stop so they can get out of their car and take off on the next.
@@joeykowalsk6812 true. first spotters were the doug and dave in the ferrari or whatever. when i did my cross country bike record ride, i had one guy in his house using my excel sheet to calculate mileage/speeds, etc., that was it, and my esim card fried in the last part of the ride so i was on my own the rest of it.
I can appreciate the dedication and the tech that went into these runs, however I'm old school. The original runs consisted of the driver, co driver and whatever else would fit into the car. IMO, having spotters across the country defeats the purpose. 28 ppl, coast to coast! At gas stops you have pit crew! Another group of people in a control room. It's all impressive, but to me it takes away what the original Cannonball was about.
Correct me if I’m wrong but is the a Cannonball run where people run in only OEM equipment with no spotters or gadgets? I feel that without these aids, will determine who is the most realistic and fastest coast to coast team/car.
Considering all the tech, money and efforts that go into the cannon ball run records, can't we just book a private carrier, put the car in it and just do the limited driving betweent the destinations and the airport. Can put a dyno/treadmill under the car in the plane to keep the car turning wheels just for name sake. That would be a unbeatable record i guess.
i bet you dont have a sunroof launched scout drone in that bad boy. also you could just use flightradar24 on your phone and track the planes around you.
Y'all should do a "protected identity " series of content with shadier content/confessions🤘🏻
Gotta borrow kayne mask
Matt Farah confessing to black face at halloween as a kid 🥸
Absolutely this!
Legally thats sketchy all it takes is a search warrant and they can find it all out
Yes
I love how they can openly talk about breaking the law across the country with proof like it's nothing
lol cannonballers have been doing this for years lmao
@@Vincetagram there is a reason they wait so long to publicly announce a new record. They have to wait for statute of limitations to expire
@@fatpad00 how long is it?
@@PsyMongSki 5 years in america lol
@@Vincetagram pretty sure it’s 1 year, if it was 5 they would be outing themselves in this video since this took place 1-3 years ago
Really interested in the financial commitment of a cannonball attempt .. a guy like this definitely has everything accounted for
Seriously. Just paying for the spotter’s gas and hotels alone would add up. I thought cannonball runs were a lot more ‘casual’.
This seemed like a competition with the amount of commitment from so many people.
Let’s push for this. There’s many people who want to know
I wonder as well. Just a ballpark number.
6 digits
$300k
The amount of effort, technology, thought, logistics and engineering for these runs is absolutely insane I live for that kind of stuff!!
Not to mention the amount of money.
@@107uptown That factors in, they have spotters and the amount of support they need. We need a canonball theme need for speed game.
These guys raised the bar!!!!
You forgot the most important thing dude lmao, MONEY
The level of planning, prep, and execution is admirable in itself!
This is like an entire team of a hundred or more people, I almost feel like this should be in a different category; Assisted vs Solo (2-person) teams.
There is a solo run. VINwiki had a video on it.
S8+ and current M5 are two of my absolute favorite cars. Stealth and fast as hell.
It was a blast being an itty-bitty little part of this effort; wish they took the record because the amount of effort from everyone was monumental!
Holy crap an actual team. Bravo lads
Fun fact: the team was going 165 when they almost hit that deer with the S8
I hit a deer in my Zo6 Corvette doing 120-130mph or so , I would hate to see 165.
@@danielknepper6884 as a deer driving my M5 I would also hate to see you
@@Donax695 LOL
@@Donax695 you let deer drive your m5?
@@skurdibbles7913 I am deer, brother.
This is really some of the best content on TH-cam. And it’s free. Thank you guys
Great team work! Tedward is great, love his channel also.... Love to see TH-camrs from New England!
110 mph average over thst fistance is extremely good. I had 85-90 mph average Stoclholm to Monte Carlo bit then we drove legally for like 6 hours through Sweden. 18.5 h Stoclholm Monte Carlo in a BMW M5 E39 delimited 😁
Now do it in a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. I am going to be moving to Sweden, are there driving areas where you can go wild without worry from the cops?
Jesus Gustav, you truely spell as horrible in english as you speak it..
@@henrik1743 Yeah havent got used to this Fold 4 keyboard yet 🤩
@@gtboard Your 'humble' attempt at bragging is really not working :)
@@henrik1743 😁
ADS-B? Awesome! I am a pilot and did not know that existed for auto use. You run a tight ship.
They make boxes that can hook up to a tv or computer. Pretty cool amateur radio users and radio scanner freaks do it. I’ve always wanted do hook up a big tv and do it.
They make setups for home where you can put an antenna on your roof and view ADS-B information. These are usualy used to feed info for Flightaware or FlightRadar and similar. The trick we used is to also incorporate a GPS antenna so that the station would recognize that the antenna is moving and recalculate relative direction and heading of the planes nearby based on the updating GPS. We then used a modified version of a program called tar1090 to display the planes on a map and alert to planes registered to government agencies.
Why not simply use the flight tracking apps? Those still display law enforcement aircraft, because then the car itself could be tracked…no?
@@PvtFigerNaggot_8 Those flight tracking apps predominately get their information from crowdsourcing from people who have an ADS-B antenna at home for hobby purposes. To avoid dead zones we bought our own antenna with us to feed those apps. Also having local data ensures that we get timely alerts not just when those apps decide to update. We can also control how we are alerted instead of being beholden to the app. Also some apps allow plane owners to "hide" their planes on the app for a fee where you cannot "hide" from locally sourced data. See the whole Elon Musk situation for that one.
@@cristov9000 I'm surprised you didn't use it also as an sdr to get a 'cops are near, you're heading towards/away/alongside them'
It's amazing how much kit they use now compared to back in the day when all you had was a CB radio and an extra fuel cell in the trunk
Hey, thanks for mentioning the SLR in Bulgaria. I had no idea it has a history behind it!
get some powdered potassium silicate on ebay. mix a bunch in some clear coat and spray your license plates. they will look normal until uv or camera lights hit them, they will glow so bright on camera no licesne plate reader would be able to pick them up and its not illegal to do... yet.
This was covered on Vortex Radar. The effectiveness of the paint doesn't last very long.
@@HondaFit4Adventure you misunderstood. potassium silicate isnt soluble in paint. the potassium silicate particles under the clear coat over a license plate 100% block camera readers. I wrote a paper on it in graduate school for my chemistry degree. You can actually put potassium silicate in clear coat and under certain conditions outside it will make your paint on your car glow colorful. its pretty neat. you can also put it on your face and it would blur facial recognition.
@@Mp-jw1qg That is some AWESOME INTEL sir, I appreciate you sharing that with us!
I was hoping to see Alex Roy. You guys should have him back
@@The_dislike_guy You are, he's been back since his record was broken
Surely he must have lots of evidence 🤣
@@The_dislike_guy he was at the cannonball event a few months ago.
@@alexanderkryuchkov6751 LMBO!!!!
I always avoid cops in my m5 and all I have is a v1 gen 2. It gets the job done. You just have to disable gesture control because the alerts will drive you batshit crazy!
Success rewards proper preparation
Impressive understanding and application of technology, but it seems the original idea of Cannonball has been lost. Drive Fast, Drive Safe. Save the Manuals and Rock n Roll!
Totally agree. It looks like they're missing the forest for the trees, but I understand why they decided to go this route as the amount of technological advancements makes it a very different animal in 2022 compared to 1971. However, I would think there might be something about things being _so_ complicated with technology that people and police have forgotten the analog thinking. It might be interesting to see an attempt with old-school methods and slide under the radar by not running radars or jammers or anything extra.
The Smokies are running more sophisticated technology and better comms including the iPhone equipped Karens. The counter measures of technology and team allow for a chance of greater success against the progress of the playing field while ensuring safety of the deviants and the public. The romance of nostalgia is great for stories but not success in the modern world.
"The computer also did our taxes, finished that game of solitaire for me, and even sold my car for me while I was on the move"
I feel like this interview could be an hour or more! Wow what a story.
Still my favorite cannonball story was the dude in the Audi R8 with a few cigars that didn't make it lol
That was a good one
The ALP is not a radar jammer it's a LiDAR jammer. HUGE HUGE difference
I think Chris just mis spoke
yeah radar jammers are highly illegal
2020 was the best year to do anything like this, no traffic at the time.
would love for them to do a 4th attempt
This is starting to sound like a pay to win situation
General comment towards some of the critics commenting below saying how awful/risky these projects are. I'd like to point out that IF someone ever got really hurt/died, yes, the media would have a field day with it as an easy target, and the whole legal climate would change dramatically. Reality is that it's not about the speed they're driving. Those of us who've broken or even attempted the cross country records are generally very experienced drivers, including at high speeds, have high performing mechanically solid vehicles with excellent safety features, brakes, etc. and because of the task at hand, we are 100% focused on being alert and paying attention to everything around us from LEO to animals to other cars, signaling properly, being smart responsible drivers, just at higher speeds. Comparatively, think about some 17 year old driving while smoking a joint and texting in his chitty corolla with worn brake pads and bald tires. Who is the irresponsible driver? I'd rather be around the cannonball crowd, not the high school stoner in the chitbox personally. saying safety is proportional to speed is like saying health is proportional to age. It just doesn't work that way.
What a polished team effort. F1 team level in the USA.
Love the idea, curious tho, with all that technology added into the car would you have to seriously upgrade the charging and battery system due to the upgrades draw consistently?
Newer the car, the bigger charging system/battery and bigger margin within the charging system/ battery. Most of these devices use very little power as well.
*Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN!!!*
This story is CRAZY.
I got a fever, and the only cure, is "More Cowbee.. I mean More CarTre... I mean More Vin Wiki!!"
I always wonder why they dont use a Diesel car, 70+ MPG, nice and reliable, half of the gas stops, probably would sabe quite a bit of time.
You don’t get 70 MPG when averaging 110MPH. There have been diesel attempts, but appropriate cars are hard to find in the US.
@@mrobinson4210 I get that, but on some Diesel BMWs with long gearing you can get 30mpg at 110mpg, a gas car will get about 15 if much.
I remember reading a story about a couple of guys who tried to drive across literally without stopping, as in the wheels never stopped turning. They used a diesel VW Jetta with a fuel cell in the trunk. They failed when they hit traffic near the end
@@mrobinson4210 you telling me you don’t have 330d or 335d 530d or 535d Bmw which will do a limited 155 mph standard in Europe and at half that will do 55 mpg on a run
I'd say the big issue with diesels is that 1. We don't really get them in the states, and 2. It's comparatively harder to get high power.
While you can tune diesel cars, unless someone in the USA could get basically an M5 chassis with a diesel v8 or one of BMW's crazy i6 diesels, then I don't think it's feasible.
It would be cool to see a diesel attempt, but It's just not feasible.
And @Chief Rocka: If you look at the GPS in the vid, they were doing 190 peak, and averaging well over 100.
You need a car that can go over 180, so that you can get from 70 to 140 fast. A 155 limiter probably wouldn't end well for a run here.
If you wonder why I like waking up early. New vinwiki videos are one of the reasons
@@SimuLord love waking up early. You can achieve more than people who sleep in
@@SimuLord I wake up at 5 and go to sleep at 1. I achieve maximum hours
@@SimuLord I’m just an insomniac 22 year old tryna build something good for himself.
I hit a deer in TN going 35. I fail to fully imagine the carnage (both to the deer and the car) resulting from a 150mph hit
I think Myth Busters did a version of that with a moose (testing the degree of damage at different speeds). I seem to recall that higher speeds resulted in less damage. I imagine the higher center of gravity of a moose was a factor, however.
@joshuajones335 yeeyee! Lets goooo! Whereabouts are ya?
Had 3 deer in front of me on i70 in western Kansas at 3am…80mph. Killed one, assuming I only hit one but there were definitely 3 in the middle of the road. Totaled my wife’s Mazda CX9, lived to tell the tale..no injuries
@Joshua Jones If I lived in deer country, my car or truck would have one of those massive Australian kangaroo bumpers like they use on their road trains.
@joshuajones335 You got my vote! The deer hit occurred right off 431 in Thompsons Station.
Take a shot every time he says “spotter”
Pretty much all cameras pick up infrared. Cell phones cameras will, security cameras are better, and cameras explicitly for infrared are of course even better. What would help the infrared camera(s) is having a bright infrared source(s) lighting up everything close and far in something like a 90 degree arc centered on the middle of the front of the car.
He needed someone to do the calculations on progress that he just explained a complicated homebrew computer he made to do exactly that?
The best thing would be air cover. One of those military drones that could stay on target the whole run with synthetic aperture radar, sensors to pick up the different bands of police radar, lasers, and radios while marking the specifics and location overlaid on a high resolution map that is completely downloaded and accessible without data. Also overlay the Waze, Google, and Apple Maps live crowdsourced data such as police locations and traffic. Im not sure what else since ecms like jamming police radar, radios, and cellular is frowned upon by the FCC and I’m sure any LEO(s) that happen to be in their way. Get sone of the radar absorbing stuff they coat the B-21 raiders or the f-35s with. Redesign the front facing parts of the car to scatter radar and/or use material that does not reflect radar kinda like that old corvette that had to be much closer than other vehicles before police radar returned a speed.
Seriously. Just paying for the spotter’s gas and hotels alone would add up. I thought cannonball runs were a lot more ‘casual’.
This seemed like a competition with the amount of commitment from so many people.
yall mustve been shooked as hell when yall saw that deer
A white bmw with tinted windows isn't what I would call the ultimate undercover car
I like when they disguise a car. One team used vinyl to make a Mercedes E-Class look like an Accord from the back. Probably the best was a team making an Audi look like a Taurus police car. They blacked out the wheels with silver center caps, used vinyl to reshape the grille and taillights, and 3D printed a blue oval to go over the Audi rings. They even had script in the oval spelling out Audi.
An average person wouldn’t identify it though.
The only thing this dude was missing was an overhead drone holy shit
Yes, officer it's. STOCK!
Fascinating, thank you. I'm proud of you spending such an amount of money for this, I can learn a lot about human commitment. As long as the roads were mostly empty I don't see harm. Human nature is cat and mouse.
What do you think is the recipe for Cannonball success today?
Waze has been a huge help for me traveling between Hermosa Beach and Phoenix. A big gas tank and a relief driver seem to be the ticket
Money.
I mean... I kinda want to do a cannonball with just myself and one other person
Loads and loads of money.
Fast car, good tech, spotters, determination, lack of fear and some luck.. Would love to know the total cost of the recent winners. Gotta be a great experience regardless and I'd love to see someone beat prior records but on a budget. If even possible.
At these speeds I believe Success is driving against yourself, not Arne / Doug. Set a lower bar and keep it safe. Make it about the drive, not the ultimate time.... Make it a love relationship with your dream car
All I know is that when I drive the carsickness goes away
What a cerebral run it would have been. Brilliant!
Ironically this looks like an unmarked police car from the UK.
Thats an insane amount of tech and planning for a rally like this, i didn't realize ppl went that far.
I think it will be hard to beat the current record but someone might be able to knock off a few minutes.
Just contradicted yourself.
@@TheNuclearBolton No he didn't. He said it would be hard, not impossible. Hence, knock off a few minutes, not hours. And someone might be able to, not anyone can. If it was easy, someone wouldn't be knocking off just minutes, anybody could knock off hours.
@@TheNuclearBolton Unless you’re in a Porsche 911 Turbo S, it’s gonna be almost impossible to beat 25 hours because 25:39 was during Covid which traffic was almost non-existant, now we are in normal traffic conditions, Someone might get 27 hours or 26:50 tops
Everyone is allowed to break all of the laws they want, as many times as they want and that's not against the law...... if they have enough help and or money.
Wow, they put a ton of money, work, detail and dedication in this. Like the type of system you almost can't beat.
Serious guy Alex Roy level. Car sick person in the car massive fail 😁
Y’all should add night vision for those dark highways to the car, not to hit deers or wtv.
I wonder what the ultimate money-is-no-object Canonball car and setup would be...
I think it would be something like an explorer in a grey with a push bumper and everything, and for an engine, I think the mercedes M157 engine tuned to about 800 hp would be good, obviously both the car and the engine would need tons of modifications to be able to run smoothly at 180 mph but it could probably be done.
@@lukedebu5210 I'd say use a Taurus or one of the old Chevy Australian-import cop cars.
The explorer chassis just isn't designed to run stable at HIGH speeds like a car can.
It could maybe be possible with significant modification to the car, but I personally think you'd be better off with something designed to handle running at 150+, like an audi, merc, BMW, porsche... Basically a german car.
The pro move would be to disguise one of the german limos (S8, M5...) as an unmarked car (grey, bumper, etc), hop up the engine, fuel cell, etc.
So while I think someone doing a cannonball with something other than a german limo would be cool to see, I just don't think it's possible as the germans seem to be the only ones designing cars to sit comfortably at 150+ on the highway.
The Batmobile
Just putting this out there, I am really good at being a spotter for both cops and dynamic traffic situation’s as well as willing to take a hit on my record for being a blocker, all I need is a guarantee that my gasoline and rental car will be paid for and I will have legal assistance if I get jammed up
naw need to have them cover any extra costs to insurance and ticket fees added on
I feel like you are making this much more difficult than it should be
Ever use aerial spotters? I have to imagine it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to find a few pilots across the country to help out.
This one of the craziest vin wikis I ever seen
Maaaaaan that’s so bad ass goddamn
Any news of anymore runs being made?
Needs to be a "primitive" class of cannonball. One that is true to the original.
I agree. However the pigs aren’t “primitive” anymore either… 👮♂️
Hey Josh,
This topic was brought up at the Cannonball reunion this year. th-cam.com/video/1ENT2IlzZW8/w-d-xo.html
Each era of Cannonballing came with its own Pro's & Cons
Even the 70's Cannonballers think it's just as difficult if not more difficult to do it now.
Regardless of how you look at it, the days of what we know as Cannonballing are about to change as E.V.s slowly take over. (Also discussed at the reunion)
As a fellow Bostonian, this guy is the hero our city needs.
Treating the cannonball like a shadowrun
What do you get for beating the record ? I don’t understand especially putting in tech and big team
Bragging rights.
The best part is when you get to the finish line and your by yourself. th-cam.com/video/1ENT2IlzZW8/w-d-xo.html
It takes a Village to raise a winning run!
And money which majority of Americans have
So much work, time, money, effort and dedication put into this thing. I though you just jump in a car and drive as fast as you can.
Yeah, doesn't really work like that for these runs. Lots of planning and lots of people helping out.
think i spent 9 months prepping before the motorcycle cross country record i did. crazy how much work it takes.
if you did that you'd be arrested in an hour
BAM BAM BAM "FBI OPEN UP" lol
When you add an antenna to your Audi to communicate with aliens.. You know sh*t got serious!! Nice set up!
Great info but what is interesting and what your subscribers want to hear are stories of encounters or near misses with law enforcement, animals, car issues, etc not a list of things a person would put in place to do coast to coast time trial. Kinda like those movies with no characters anyone invests or can identify with
Tedward the goated spotter
When the co-pilot becomes an AWACS
CoVid improved the core issue of people just sitting in the left lane. I think it’s about 2/3rd sit there to 1/3rd move over.
Gosh sending out all those spotters must have cost a fortune
What function was the infrared camera suppose to provide?
All other pilots watch this video: Thanks for the idea about ADS-B lmao 🤣
This cat is sharp!
we want wheres981 !!
This guy is moderately better than his buddy. At least he got December airplay
These people have made a perfect getaway car
Does anyone remember when the Cannonball Run was legit?
No major mods.
No high-tech gadgets.
No 25+ spotters.
No 'home base'.
Just 2 guys (or girls or whatever) in a fast car going coast to coast.
Wow! My guy had his wife out in front as a spotter! Buy that woman a beer!
Are there any apps right now that can do what this guy explained about the airplanes? Because it would be really nice to have that kind of information alongside Waze like I would pay money for an app like that
There are, yes. We use them in our planes. Not sure why you would want that in your car though.
He mentioned the app in the video, Highway Radar. One of their features is: Highway Radar collects information about air traffic around though various ADS-B exchange sites (ADSBx, OpenSky). Then it matches every aircraft to multiple registration databases and alerts drivers only on those which can potentially do traffic enforcement.
Friendly reminder why not to travel in the passing lane!
depending on how many stops they do, they should have a vehicle thats full of fuel ready at each fuel stop so they can get out of their car and take off on the next.
The goal is to drive A car across the country. Not multiple cars
Alternative, quick swap fuel cell? Quick disconnects could potentially make this happen
breaks the original cannonball rules. had to be the same vehicle the whole way.
@@NoLimitsNoRegrets the original cannonball rules didn't have spotters and pit crews either.
@@joeykowalsk6812 true. first spotters were the doug and dave in the ferrari or whatever. when i did my cross country bike record ride, i had one guy in his house using my excel sheet to calculate mileage/speeds, etc., that was it, and my esim card fried in the last part of the ride so i was on my own the rest of it.
I can appreciate the dedication and the tech that went into these runs, however I'm old school. The original runs consisted of the driver, co driver and whatever else would fit into the car. IMO, having spotters across the country defeats the purpose. 28 ppl, coast to coast! At gas stops you have pit crew! Another group of people in a control room. It's all impressive, but to me it takes away what the original Cannonball was about.
Correct me if I’m wrong but is the a Cannonball run where people run in only OEM equipment with no spotters or gadgets? I feel that without these aids, will determine who is the most realistic and fastest coast to coast team/car.
Considering all the tech, money and efforts that go into the cannon ball run records, can't we just book a private carrier, put the car in it and just do the limited driving betweent the destinations and the airport. Can put a dyno/treadmill under the car in the plane to keep the car turning wheels just for name sake. That would be a unbeatable record i guess.
ALP is not a radar jammer, it's a laser (lidar) jammer.
Need to get back to the root of Cannonball, All gas no brakes just you, your car and the finish line.
how do I sign up to be a spotter for the next one?
I'm so glad I dont get car sick, I feel so bad for people who do
I feel like I'm a co-conspirator just looking at this video
I like how he says Khaaar, and quite a bit
Interesting it wasn’t specified that radar jammers are illegal in all 50 states
ALP is a lidar jammer not a radar
No footage?
And did he break the record or not?
i bet you dont have a sunroof launched scout drone in that bad boy.
also you could just use flightradar24 on your phone and track the planes around you.
At 150Mph stay on the right lane, other Cars may be faster and want Pass.
Grüße von der Autobahn. 😂