The Four Ball Rally World Record
How it happened
October 1984. My best friend Tim and I drove a 1984 Pontiac Trans Am from New York to California in 32 hours and 7 minutes.
That's the Four Ball Rally world record. It still stands today. Not because nobody's broken it, but because nobody will ever get the chance to try.
That was the last race. The end of something that had been going on since the Pony Express. After we crossed that finish line, the window closed. I'm going to tell you what happened and why it mattered.
Four Ball Rally vs. Cannonball Run: Setting the Record Straight
Most people have heard of the Cannonball Run. The movies made it famous. But I need to explain how the Four Ball Rally was different, because the distinction matters.
Brock Yates organized the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash from 1971 to 1979. Brock was a Car and Driver editor, and he put together something brilliant—a protest against the 55 mph speed limit that captured the imagination of the country. He got celebrities involved, media attention, the whole thing.
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