It’s the 50th anniversary of the Cannonball Run. Be interesting to do a Smart version. Not going to break any records (well, maybe a few Smart records)...So Stinky and I have been holding are own individually with the Heavy hitters. You know em and you know how good they look in groups. The BMWs, the Dodges with Chargers; Challengers and Durangos, the Minis, the Subarus, The whole JDM crowd, the GM Muscle, even the Fiat group, all Growling Popping and Snorting. Yes they impress. But Stinky and I know you have been running right along side them all, just like us, Knowing that as long as we keep them in sight until the curvy stretches come, where we can give any of them pure hell. We also know that sitting still we are the show darlings because we get all the curiosity seekers.
Well as of today Stinky and I have met, merged and mean to Show up and Show out this season.
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We will be Small Balling and Mensa Smart.
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And we are looking for our clan.
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We got each others backs now, but we want to run in a pack. Come bold in the park buzzing around all the fore mentioned beast.
So lets figure out how to get out and run a few routes and roll to a few show and shines together this season.
The Harlem Edition has two big rides planned this season one to The California Canyons and the other to Nova Scotia All other weekends, name a show or run you would like to run with a crew andl right now you have 2 ready on the wing.
Today was a great day for Stinky and Me.
We will be reaching out to any who want to run a little this season as well as continuing our ongoing mods to Stinky and the Harlem Edition.
Hope To See You Along The Way.
Stinky and Me are looking for a Crew.
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So Stinky and I have been holding are own individually with the Heavy hitters. You know em and you know how good they look in groups. The BMWs, the Dodges with Chargers; Challengers and Durangos, the Minis, the Subarus, The whole JDM crowd, the GM Muscle, even the Fiat group, all Growling Popping and Snorting. Yes they impress. But Stinky and I know you have been running right along side them all, just like us, Knowing that as long as we keep them in sight until the curvy stretches come, where we can give any of them pure hell. We also know that sitting still we are the show darlings because we get all the curiosity seekers.
Well as of today Stinky and I have met, merged and mean to Show up and Show out this season.
![]()
We will be Small Balling and Mensa Smart.
![]()
And we are looking for our clan.
![]()
We got each others backs now, but we want to run in a pack. Come bold in the park buzzing around all the fore mentioned beast.
So lets figure out how to get out and run a few routes and roll to a few show and shines together this season.
The Harlem Edition has two big rides planned this season one to The California Canyons and the other to Nova Scotia All other weekends, name a show or run you would like to run with a crew andl right now you have 2 ready on the wing.
Today was a great day for Stinky and Me.
We will be reaching out to any who want to run a little this season as well as continuing our ongoing mods to Stinky and the Harlem Edition.
Hope To See You Along The Way.
Well as of today Stinky and I have met, merged and mean to Show up and Show out this season.
We will be Small Balling and Mensa Smart.
And we are looking for our clan.
We got each others backs now, but we want to run in a pack. Come bold in the park buzzing around all the fore mentioned beast.
So lets figure out how to get out and run a few routes and roll to a few show and shines together this season.
The Harlem Edition has two big rides planned this season one to The California Canyons and the other to Nova Scotia All other weekends, name a show or run you would like to run with a crew andl right now you have 2 ready on the wing.
Today was a great day for Stinky and Me.
We will be reaching out to any who want to run a little this season as well as continuing our ongoing mods to Stinky and the Harlem Edition.
Hope To See You Along The Way.
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The most debilitating thing is rim damage because of 3 lug availability on the fly. One thing to repair or replace a tire a whole other thing to get a rim shipped out. Wow now that I really think about it lol run all the way to California only to have to run the canyons on a ugly under performing spare "yuck"."What sort of spares would one take?" FWIW, I did a round trip from Dayton to the the Pacific Coast and back, via Deadwood, SD for the 2016 smart nationals, and put around 6K miles on the car - took no spare parts or tools and didn't need any.
Well great to see we have potentially six cars already to run cross country May 2021. (better to take the test run warmer month due to less chance of snow.) .......... SmartBall Rally 2021 sponsored by US "Mensaa" Rally Group Co sponsored by WAZE navigation solutions. Sign up for pack run on original route or individual sprint run, ........ hmmmmm imagine that
Smartball! Great! So the original logo for the Cannonball was this (more or less - there seem to be some minor font variations floating around.
![Poster Signage Sign]()
Replace CANNONBALL with SMARTBALL and put a Smart logo in place of the sunset, and I think we’d have a logo. I can try my luck at it later today.
love the idea of a pack of Smarts dashing coast to coast! I might have to cajole three friends and field two teams!
maybe we need to start a Smartball thread. lol
Replace CANNONBALL with SMARTBALL and put a Smart logo in place of the sunset, and I think we’d have a logo. I can try my luck at it later today.
love the idea of a pack of Smarts dashing coast to coast! I might have to cajole three friends and field two teams!
maybe we need to start a Smartball thread. lol
I regularly do Gambler 500 rallies in a very much stock smart. The little thing also tows trailers like a boss. Likewise, I've taken all three generations on lengthy sprints dotting across this country.
This year there's going to be the Gambler 500 version of the Cannonball. We're setting out in Chicago then running Rte 66 all the way to LA. Considering the point of the Gambler is an endurance rally in $500 cars, that's going to be very interesting. Most people are going to buy their cars sight unseen here in Chicago then as we'd say: "Send It!"
These fortwos can not only handle the punishment of running 30-40+ hours nonstop, but do it without breaking a sweat. Now you the human? That's the toughie. You're going to want a co-driver to do it safely.
This year there's going to be the Gambler 500 version of the Cannonball. We're setting out in Chicago then running Rte 66 all the way to LA. Considering the point of the Gambler is an endurance rally in $500 cars, that's going to be very interesting. Most people are going to buy their cars sight unseen here in Chicago then as we'd say: "Send It!"
These fortwos can not only handle the punishment of running 30-40+ hours nonstop, but do it without breaking a sweat. Now you the human? That's the toughie. You're going to want a co-driver to do it safely.
Doesn't look like the original group bothered to copyright "sea-to-shining-sea" so you're good. A little history: The Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash
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