The Cannonball Run build-off

[FujimiLover]

This build off still has a full year to go. I mentioned that the dead line should be exactly one year from the date that Ferra Fawcette past away. So all talk and no action is pointless at this time since there's plenty of time to take action. I started this thread, and I haven't even got a kit for the project yet. I'm still backed up with KS projects and my Smart Drifter project.

I would like to see photos of previously built cars from the movie, but I don't want to clog this thread with cars already built. I'd rather see it filled with current projects as it's a contribute to our fallen "racers".

To me, just posting pics of previously built cars really don't add contribute if you know what I mean. Contribution is more like what your doing now.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the interests, and pictures are always cool, but please let's keep this thread for current Cannonball projects. Thank you much! I hope to sometime soon join in on my own build-off! LOL!

Your Bond car is ironic add to this and it's much appreciated. If you remember in the first Cannonball Run movie with Roger Moore, they wanted to do a James Bond like character, but for copy-writes they couldn't. So what they did instead, was have Roger Moore play an actor, Symor Goldfarb, or whatever his name was, act like he was "Roger Moor". Kind of funny to be Roger Moor playing a guy who's acting like he's Roger Moore! LOL!

Seriously, lets keep this thread specific to current projects please! Thank you!

I do love that Austin Martin with the two figures though! And nice back ground too! Is that a diorama you built or is it in front of a photo? Hard to tell. Nice!

Edited July 20, 2009 by FujimiLover

[manngunn]

I understand this is for current builds. And as I am a first time poster here probably took it wrong. But I am a huge Cannonball Run fan and I too mourn the loss of the great actors that were a part of it.

But this is your thread and I offered to post some builds to promote and motivate the build off because it does interest me. But they are unwelcome here so I will not post. But I agree with some of the other posters here. 6 pages and no photos. Such a broad subject with tons of opportunity for entrants and you have THREE people all doing the SAME CAR!?!?!? And that is your total build off! No other entrants. I now will not enter a new build either.

I guess I missed the part where it was a private build off, sorry to intrude.

I was told by others to come to the Model Cars Forums because they are better than the Scale Auto one and more friendly people. HMM guess they were wrong.

So I will leave you to your small build off and private thread. Next time you should post that it is a closed thread for only those invited!

[FujimiLover]

I apologize, I want you to feel welcome here. Your pics are certainly welcome and much appreciated. I just wanted to limit the photos presented so as to not clog up the thread. I will re-write my rules here.

All cars related to the movies that have been previously built, or are in current progress are more than welcomed here and all are much appreciated to this tribute to our lost Cannonballers. I do apologize, I certainly don't want to exclude people or make people feel unwelcome. Not my intent at all.

All cars related to movies are welcomed!

I do like your background and your icons, ad's something special to the car to make it more authentic! I like it a lot!

Edited July 21, 2009 by FujimiLover

[FujimiLover]

Anybody else doing something here? I'd like to see this build-off/thread continue. All photo's of previously built movie-related cars are welcome! Does not matter how long ago you built it, please contribute to the thread. Thank you!

Edited July 23, 2009 by FujimiLover

[Corvette.Jeff]

heres mine so far, its pretty far from finished.

[FujimiLover]

Look's good kid, is that Fujimi's model? And are you going to add the front wing with fog-lights to it? Thank's for the pics!

[Corvette.Jeff]

kid? man im probably older than you!

Like i said though, its a long way from finished, and yes i still need to make the front spoiler and the fog lights. Still need to clear the body to(its just pieced together there) i may repain the interior to, i used a gray primer with a pebble(as close to beige as the paint store had) and i may try a black or dark grey primer and see if it looks better, plus the flash messed it up so i had to mess wiht the contrast a bit, and it started to rain right when i walked outside.

[Corvette.Jeff]

kid? man im probably older than you! Yes thats fujimi's model.

Like i said though, its a long way from finished, and yes i still need to make the front spoiler and the fog lights. Still need to clear the body to(its just pieced together there) i may repain the interior to, i used a gray primer with a pebble(as close to beige as the paint store had) and i may try a black or dark grey primer and see if it looks better, plus the flash messed it up so i had to mess wiht the contrast a bit, and it started to rain right when i walked outside.

[manngunn]

Here are a few shots of my finished ones. As I said I do not want to HI-Jack the thread but share inspiration. And Fujimilover on the Gone in 60 seconds there is actually a resin kit of it sold. Scale Productions used to do it but no longer on their site. It was like 125 bucks!

Anyway here are a few Cannonball cars!!!

http://public.fotki.com/manngunn/models-1/...cannonball-run/

Thanks

Alan

[FujimiLover]

kid? man im probably older than you!

Like i said though, its a long way from finished, and yes i still need to make the front spoiler and the fog lights. Still need to clear the body to(its just pieced together there) i may repain the interior to, i used a gray primer with a pebble(as close to beige as the paint store had) and i may try a black or dark grey primer and see if it looks better, plus the flash messed it up so i had to mess wiht the contrast a bit, and it started to rain right when i walked outside.

I was referring to the "KID" at the end of your username! LOL!

Nice set of models there manngunn. The second one reminds me of those two characters going over a bump that flipped the hood open and in front of the windshield.

"I can't see $hi! can you!"

"No problem son, no problem!"

LOL! Funny! Then it was primered after that. Thank's for sharing!

[manngunn]

I was referring to the "KID" at the end of your username! LOL!

Nice set of models there manngunn. The second one reminds me of those two characters going over a bump that flipped the hood open and in front of the windshield.

"I can't see $hi! can you!"

"No problem son, no problem!"

LOL! Funny! Then it was primered after that. Thank's for sharing!

After that pool scene when the car was in primer it was a Monte Carlo not a Laguna... OOPS guess they missed that one.

Alan

[Nick Winter]

After that pool scene when the car was in primer it was a Monte Carlo not a Laguna... OOPS guess they missed that one.

Alan

Yep before that scene it's a 1975 chevy chevelle laguna after it's a 1977 chevy monte carlo.

[FujimiLover]

Funny, I never noticed that change before! LOL! I guess many people didn't except for those that really know those kind of cars.

Tell you the truth I wasn't even sure what kind of car it was supposed to be in the first place as I don't know those classics.

[FujimiLover]

Hey guy's! Did this build-off die-off with the racers? Anybody have any updates to their projects?

Please, let's keep this thread alive! After all, this is a tribute to those actors/actresses who have given us so much entertainment! Keep it coming fellas!

[dwc43]

Still in it. I just got bogged down on mine. I'll get some pics up when I make some more note worthy progress.

[FujimiLover]

Any progress is note worthy in this build-off. I just like to see this thread progressing. Thank's for responding!

[FujimiLover]

"Terrorist's my dimpled azz. These guy's make terrorists look like Sisters of Charity. These guy's are Cannonballers!"

"What is that a bowling team?"

[dwc43]

LOL!!

[Nick Winter]

You guys have me watching this movie and the second cannonball run every couple days.

Here's some trivia guys,

Don Rickles was originally cast as Fenderbaum before the part went to Sammy Davis Jr..

The ambulance used in the movie is the actual ambulance that Hal Needham and Brock Yates souped up and raced in the real Cannonball Run. It had been modified with a HEMI engine that made it go up to 145 mph and was equipped with four gas filler holes so that the required 90 gallons could be pumped quickly. Needham and Yates didn't actually win the race (the transmission blew in Palm Springs) so Needham kept it in storage for several years until the time came to make this film. After the movie, he gave it to a church charity which raised a good deal of money auctioning it off.

This movie was based on a series of real races started by Brock Yates of "Car & Driver" magazine. The fifth and final race was in 1978. Yates and Hal Needham actually entered the ambulance seen in the film. They had a doctor on board and Yates' wife Pamela as a patient. It blew its transmission in Palm Springs, California, and arrived in Long Beach on the back of a flatbed truck. A lot of the other vehicles were actual entries in that race.

The producers asked the governor of Georgia if the crew could shut down the center of a small town so that a plane could land in the middle of it. The police blocked off the section that the plane was to land in and a barrier can be seen in the background.

The Ferrari 308 used in the movie belonged to director Hal Needham.

Roger Moore has a different girlfriend every time we see him in this movie and they are all voiced by June Foray (uncredited).

The first highway patrolman that pulls over Adrienne Barbeau and Tara Buckman was Burt Reynolds' stand-in (note the resemblance).

Director Cameo: [Hal Needham] Man in back of ambulance.

Cameo: [brock Yates] [the film's writer appears as the organizer of the race.]

Jackie Chan, who played a small role in this movie, was very upset when he learned his character was Japanese since he himself is Chinese.

In one of the earlier scenes in the movie, Burt Reynolds's character says "Could get a black Trans Am", and then answers himself, "Naw, that's been done." This is a reference to Smokey and the Bandit (1977) which starred Reynolds, and was directed by Hal Needham, who directed this film. DeLuise co-starred with Reynolds in the 1980 sequel, Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

Victor (Dom DeLuise) tells J.J. (Burt Reynolds) that it is a good thing they have a doctor on board in case someone gets "swamp fever". This is a reference to Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) where Dom played a doctor Burt picks up. He was treating a patient for swamp fever.

Stuntwoman Heidi Von Beltz was crippled in a stunt when the stunt car she was riding in (doubling an Aston-Martin driven by Roger Moore in the race) lost control and crashed on the second take of the stunt. The driver and another stunt person in the car received minor injuries, but Heidi was left a paraplegic.

There are numerous James Bond references throughout the film, resulting in a rumor that Albert R. Broccoli had Roger Moore sign a contract which forbid him to spoof or make references to the James Bond character in any other non-Bond film.

The movie was originally planned as an action film starring Steve McQueen. After McQueen's death, the lead went to Burt Reynolds and the film became a comedy.

To get material for this movie, Brock Yates ran the final Cannonball in 1978. The move cost him his editorial position at Car and Driver magazine which has since been reinstated.

At the end of the movie, during the big race to the finish, a black Trans Am appears. The driver of the car is seen in the foot race scene and Captain Chaos's dressing down scene. The driver is wearing the Bandit's jacket worn by Burt Reynolds in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

The short sequence in the beginning of the film which involves two animated cars wrecking the 20th Century Fox logo was created by Hal Needham, who did a similar one for another studio when releasing Smokey and the Bandit (1977). At first, Fox didn't appreciate the notion of wrecking their logo, but soon found it would be appealing to audiences if it were left in.

Dom DeLuise's character, Victor Prinzi, is named after Vic Prinzi, a friend and former college football teammate of Burt Reynolds at Florida State University. Reynolds played halfback at FSU before an injury forced him out of football, and Prinzi was the quarterback.

Ron Rice, owner of Hawaiian Tropic, loaned his black Lamborghini to his buddies Burt Reynolds and Hal Needham. The same Lamborghini can be briefly seen in the background at the party of Big and Little Enos Burdette near the end of Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983).

The license plate number of the 1964 silver birch Aston Martin DB5 driven by Roger Moore in the film was 6633PP. The car was made famous by the Sean Connery James Bond movies Goldfinger (1964) and then Thunderball (1965) with later models appearing in subsequent Bond pictures. However, Roger Moore who played James Bond seven times never drove an Aston Martin in a Bond film and this is his only on-screen appearance with the most famous of all James Bond cars.

George Furth's character (Arthur J. Foyt) was named as an tribute to IndyCar and NASCAR legend Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. (a.k.a. A.J. Foyt).

The front shots of the ambulance driving down the road were some of the last to be filmed. In what Hal Needham referred to as "poorman's process" they were filmed in a garage with crewmen rocking the vehicle back and forth. The scene in the rain was filmed by simply spraying water on the windshield.

Filmed in 36 days.

Director Hal Needham and producer Albert S. Ruddy liked the chemistry of Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis so much that after this film they tried to sell a pilot to ABC featuring their characters. The head of the network loved the idea but the day before the meeting was to be held to discuss it, the head of the network was fired and the project was canceled.

Director Hal Needham shows up in the film four times. First as the EMT in the back of the ambulance, then as the voice of the cop in the speed trap ("Remember when we use to chase speeders"), then as the truck driver who calls Roger Moore on the CB and finally at the very end of the bloopers.

The Hawaiian Tropic NASCAR racer is apparently inspired by the very real "Fire-Am" entered in the real race by F Gregory and P Brennan. The Fire-Am had previously been run at the Daytona 24 hour race and the owner had just stripped the numbers off the doors and loaned it to the cannonballers in full race drag. As Gregory put it: "one look at the Fire-Am and any cop would know we were up to no good".

Burt Reynolds received a then-record $5 million salary for his work on the film, which took three weeks.

Edited August 18, 2009 by Dukefan69'

[dwc43]

You guys have me watching this movie and the second cannonball run every couple days.

You should pick a car and join in in the build off then.

[Nick Winter]

You should pick a car and join in in the build off then.

Ok well I'll take a look and see what one i have and can do.

[Nick Winter]

Well i didn't find a Car I have but I'll be the quite guy who gives up quotes and such. But i have one thing to say to the participants

"You are certainly the most distinguished group of highway scofflaws and degenerates ever gathered together in one place".

[FujimiLover]

Yes, I realized a big connection between C.R. and S.A.T.B, particularly J.J. Mclures mention of the black Trans Am.

"Next year we're going for the n,n, n, n,........." as he was trying to pronounce noble peace price in the bloopers.

I liked the chemistry between Burt and Dom and I think they only did those three movies together. Both Cannonballs and the second Smoky.

I didn't realize Victor's reference to swamp fever was linked. Lot's of interesting notes and thank you for sharing.

"WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THAT?"

"Oh, that must've been the entry for the national safety comity.".

Another one while in bar.

"Aren't you afraid that milk is going to curdle when it hit's your liver?"

"My liver died three years ago!"

[Nick Winter]

Yes, I realized a big connection between C.R. and S.A.T.B, particularly J.J. Mclures mention of the black Trans Am.

"Next year we're going for the n,n, n, n,........." as he was trying to pronounce noble peace price in the bloopers.

I liked the chemistry between Burt and Dom and I think they only did those three movies together. Both Cannonballs and the second Smoky.

I didn't realize Victor's reference to swamp fever was linked. Lot's of interesting notes and thank you for sharing.

"WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THAT?"

"Oh, that must've been the entry for the national safety comity.".

Another one while in bar.

"Aren't you afraid that milk is going to curdle when it hit's your liver?"

"My liver died three years ago!"

Yeah well I came across that a few years ago, Well they were very good friends for years. Anytime. LOL, Not to correct you but is this what you meant.

What in the hell was that?

Oh, that must've been the entry of the National Safety Council.

Here's some more memorable quotes.

Why'd he call me Shorty?

'Cause you're small. Small. S - M - all.

How long before we stop?

Eight hours!

Da-D-######! I gotta go to the john!

What's Dr. Gay do?

He's my shrink. He was committed yesterday.

Why?

He was smoking bananas. He gets very upset when he talks to 'Him'.

So do I!

Isn't that J.J. McClure?

He's nothing. Don't worry about him. It's the Blimp next to him! The Blimp! When he puts on that mask, he'll blow your Goddam doors off!

Well, how do you all feel now you have raped the American highways?

Beautiful!

Thanks to you, Victor, we do not have a female patient in the back. Thanks to your wonderful cousin Tessie.

Well, it's not my fault that she didn't fit in the stretcher!

She doesn't fit in the AMBULANCE!

[J.J. and Victor are pulled over by two priests in a red Ferrari]

Nice car, Father!

Thank you, azzhole.

[batman tries to beat up a biker] Hold it! You'll never last five minutes in a New York Subway

[Mad Dog whacks the biker across the knee with a board and then on the back, knocking him down] Now *that?s* the way it's done!

[Fenderbaum and Blake's Ferrari drives alongside J.J.'s ambulance] Pull over! We want to give you our blessing!

J.J., there are two priests in that car. They want us to pull over.

Victor, that's two priests driving a Ferrari. When's the last time you saw two priests drive a Ferrari? What are they doing, taking home the bingo money?

No, they're doing the work of the Lord. In a Ferrari, they can just do it faster.

Thank you, Father.

Why don't you take that piece of ###### back to the junkyard?

[laughs and drives away]

If we were Methodists we'd have a good shot at gettin' laid

Those are just from the first cannonball run, there plenty more from the second that I'll post later.

Enjoy,

Nick

[Guest Mustang3.8]

ROFL! Those are some hilarious quotes, 'cuz.