Last week, a team of self-promotional morons set off to break the existing coast-to-coast driven speed record. My colleague and fellow Hemmings editor Jeff Koch recently wrote about the media respons...
Last week, a team of drivers set off to break the existing coast-to-coast driven speed record–from the Red Ball Garage in Brooklyn, New York, to the Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, California—a pat...
In 1979, driving a one-year-old Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9 in the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash was like hiding and cheating in plain sight. While entries more cleverly disg...
Cars from the 1979 event take a parade lap on the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Photo courtesy Gero Hoschek. It was an event as audacious as its founder, Brock Yates, the Car and Driver editor known ...
Cars from the 1979 event take a parade lap on the Long Beach Grand Prix course. Photo courtesy Gero Hoschek. It was an event as audacious as its founder, Brock Yates, the Car and Driver editor known ...