The race even inspired the 1981 comedy film Cannonball ... Originating in the early 1970s, the Cannonball Run is an informal and illegal car race that takes place across the United States.
And which of the Cannonball cars and trucks survived? To name one, the fake ambulance "Transcon Medi-Vac" in the movie really had run in the 1979 Cannonball and fooled the cops. Where it is today ...