Transcontinental Documentation With Spinelli and Roy

On Tuesday, our resident Empire Stater sat down with everyone's favorite Teutonic village person to chat about the difference between a rally and a transcontinental record attempt. Today FastLane Daily's got part two of their conversations, where Alex talks about the problems with irrefutably proving that one has…

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Rawlings and Collins on their Transcon Record Attempt

Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collins sit down with Bullrun's Rory Camangian for the first segment of what's apparently a four-part interview. They cover the issue of fatigue, their bet with Jay Riecke and prepping the car. Interestingly enough, although Bullrun has posted the methods used to prove that Rawlings and…

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It's Not a Rally, It's a Race: Spinelli Chats With Alex Roy Regarding…

Herr Roy is getting pretty popular around the FastLane Daily studios, having spoken yesterday on the need for independent verification of the Rawlings/Collins transcontinental record(?). Today, he and Spinelli sat down for part one of a two-part powwow on the ins and outs of the legality of rallying, as well as the…

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Transcontinental 144: Alex Roy on the Rawlings/Collins Record Attempt

The ever-lovin' Herr Roy knows a thing or two about transcontinental control of incontinence in the service of swaths of ground covered in short amounts of time. He's harbored a friendly rivalry with both Richard Rawlings and the Collins Brothers since his first Gumball back in '03. And as a classic business-giver,…

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Texas Duo Claims to Have Broken 1979 Cannonball NYC To LA Run

Bullrun_Rawlings_Challenge.jpg Bearded Bullrun impresario Richard Rawlings and co-pilot Dennis Collins claim to have broken the famous 1979 Cannonball Run time from New York City to Los Angeles of 32 hours and 51 minutes. According to a release, the two bet rival Jay Riecke they could beat the time in their 2007 Bullrun entry, a black Ferrari 550…

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Bullrun '06: Fontucky to Beverly Hills

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The rally was originally supposed to end at The Grove, one of the tonier open-air shopping areas in Los Angeles. However, at the last minute, mall authorities reneged on the deal, as they'd been doing some research on the Internets and decided that the Bullrun wasn't a "family-friendly" event. During the drivers'…

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Richard Was a Rally Driver: Gas Monkey Video Podcasts

An old friend of ours, coming home from the video shoot for Primus' "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" back in 1990, was in a VW Rabbit that hit a telephone pole. May the same fate not befall Richard Rawlings on this year's Bullrun. His first vodcast is above — soundtracked by the early-'90s East Bay alternahit — and he's…

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Bullrun Update: Kansas City

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So the veterans of the Fourth Battle of Bullrun aren't pulling into Manassas, VA tonight, but rather Kansas City, MO, after bombing down from Chicago via Saint Louis, presumably not stopping to check out the legendary screen door of Belleville, IL. Alex Roy has been aggregating anecdotes for us, and after the jump, we …

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