![]() ![]() I must say that I'm totally won over by this idea of hitting the road on the earliest machines all the bikes taking part have to be Pre 16, meaning that motorcycles often consigned to museums will be brought back to life again. So it would seem that races of this kind have an important place in American folklore. The name is shared by the 1981 movie in which Roger Moore, Farah Fawcett and Burt Reynolds cross the US in an outlaw car race, a theme that recurs in Monte Hellman's Two Lane Blacktop. The show sprung from the deep recesses of my memory this winter when I first learned about the Cannonball Run race. When I was younger, in 1969 to be exact, there was a Hanna/Barbera cartoon show on TV featuring various teams competing in Wacky Races during which cheating of all kinds was the norm: and the real experts in this area were Dick Dastardly and his dog Muttley. (Diabolo/Satanas) ![]()
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