* Pulls up my denim jeans * Ya know that was always Gordon's singular vision for the car, he wanted to make it invisible and I think it's unsurpassed to this day ya know
Gray and black are really really bad colors for motorcycles. There are always roads to blend in with when you're cruising. When you're coming down a hill or going around certain angled curves, people that are looking to pull out will look right through you because you blend in so well with the road behind you.
I've noticed that sports bikes like the Ninja and others(I know jack-all about sports bikes) are always crazy looking with bright green, blue, or red colors and bold patterns. Maybe that's why.
Eh, Thermal Optics such as a Maxikites can for 6-13 grands depending on the Imaging system and magnifier + the display output can be another couple grands. Im glad he didnt flex on the price lol
@@halfred8011 I wasn't referring to the price, I was referring to the fact that mounting a rifle scope on your car is not exactly the definition of "keeping it incognito". I bet it was a very pricey gadget nonetheless.
@@mort7987 Yeah I know right, Im pretty sure he couldve hooked it inside and it wouldnt be too off from the readings and would be much more incognito lol
Ed also mentioned in a previous video that he had a lot of scouts driving ahead of him so I'm sure that was critical in helping him not get pulled over while doing this
His worldrecord run was recently broken by someone in a Audi A8 L with an average speed of 170km/h. But there is controversy about this because he made the run during this Covid-19 Pandemic. So it turns out this is not entirely true. Its true someone made the run in a Audi A8L with well over 600 hp but he missed the world record on 5 minutes.
2019 Audi A8L record beater seems more like a hoax. They haven't come forth and said "yeah we did that" just 2 fuzz pics of a rear trunk of a white a8L and a timecard. I want proof!!!! lol
@@nattiecraft there are limitations to the record, otherwise people could just pick any two spots on the opposite ends of the country and call it a cannonball run....
i did West Palm Beach to Las Vegas, 2650 miles in 26 hours at an average of near 102mph, so 107 is not far off if you have no traffic, or hit a deer and waste time like I did
You mean Mr ME ME ME Richard ME ME ME Ray LOOK AT ME Rawlings AIN'T I SO FUCKIN' AWESOME? I used to like him a lot, and admire the fact he used to be a firefighter, but he has turned into a flash git blowhard douchebag.
@@KeepItReal2024 I don't envy him. He's been divorced several times over. His current squeeze is a 50-some dog with the worst fake tits I've ever seen. He has no real friends. He's even barred from his own venues because he treats the staff so badly. And would I swap the lush green hills and dramatic moorland of Devon for a flat, featureless, hot, humid Texan city? Not if you gave me every dollar Rawlings owns. I wouldn't mind running a GMG style hot rod shop here in the south-west of England, but I'd want to keep it friendly and fun rather than becoming the kind of all-consuming highly-competitive corporate entity GMG has become.
@@domc327 Yes that's correct. Radar detectors are legal in most states (not all including VA&DC) and most laser blockers are sold as parking systems which they are to a point.
@@TheGrinningSkull that's the last thing that gets you out of a ticket.... You're more likely to get one because they all know you simply have it to get out of them..
Thin blue line tags on the front bumper and make sure you have the decal from your local PD that you donated! My grandpa gave me his donation sticker when I turned 15 and started driving. He knew exactly what he was doing. I wrecked that Dodge 600 day 1!
I hope they have a video image of this car on the road somewhere - they must have - and send him the bill !!!!!!! What's he going to say; "It wasn't me officer" now he's put it up on youtube.
speed limits are one of those 'crimes' that depend on having an officer or other means of recording there to witness it. It does not matter at all if you did not get caught. you could literally go up to a cop and tell them you just drove across the country in 26 hours at speeds in excess of 130 mph, and they would probably just walk away. without a hit on their radar gun they have nothing to ticket you for that will hold up in court.
@@TalonPro I don't know about that... Many years ago, I sat in on traffic court. Guy was clocked going 40 mph in a 30 zone, but cop was busy with another speeder. After a few minutes, he drove down the road and found a house with the offending car parked in the driveway. Long story, shot, he issued a ticket and it ended up in court. With the driver on the stand, being questioned by the prosecutor, the guy claims he wasn't speeding at 40 mph, and that the radar unit was probably not calibrated properly. Prosecutor asks what he does for a living - says he is the radar technician at Westwood Raceway. After a few minutes, the court goes quiet as they listen to this guy talk about the proper way to calibrate radar units and how easy it is for them to be wrong. Really fascinating stuff! The prosecutor is just about to sit down, when he turns suddenly to the driver and asks "How fast were you going?" The guy immediately responds "About 32, maybe 33 mph." The court clerk burst out laughing! Judge says "Guilty by self-admission!"
Most of their techniques and countermeasures are known. Toman said multiple times that these systems and devices were the result of him being a participant in multiple Cannonball run prior to his record-setting run. It's the fact that his set up is extremely expensive, labor-intensive, impractical and 99% of the time straight up unnecessary. The vast majority of countermeasures he used are known, some even commonly use. Toman only combined a wide variety of them together and jack it with steroids.
Their all to busy these days with their heads down in their phones texting and playing candy crush to notice. The real miracle is not crashing into one of those aholes.
I had the very best radar detection system mounted stealthily within my van, but what I _really_ loved was my absolutely spastic laser jamming system which was the very best on the market at the time (and still is to this very day!). The radar detector was the Beltronics Sti-XR (100% undetectable by radar detector detectors!) and I also had an Escort Passport 9500ci before the Beltronics which was better in terms of learning where the radars were and auto-locking them into its memory, but I preferred the simplicity and solid ruggedness of the Beltronics unit. The laser jammer I used was the Laser Interceptor which I had mounted very stealthily just under my van pointing straight ahead at exactly parallel to the road. This thing was so good that when I had purchased the best laser gun in the entire country at the time in order to really put this jammer through the wringer, I could never even get a reading at any time I had tried to get the van while in fast motion! I mean, I tried everything!! I even tried to point the gun to the roof which was very far away from the jammer heads, and also in combination to try to shoot the van while it was extremely close to me... but the jammer won every single time without fail!! I even had my friend drive _his_ vehicle in which he had spent 3x what I did on a jammer which was another brand and nowhere near as efficient or effective as mine, but he had his professionally installed, hence the hefty price tag! So, I pointed my laser gun at his vehicle while he was jamming, and I got a reading almost immediately, every single time no matter what scenario we had tried to come up with! I was now that much more impressed with this jammer of mine! I LOVED this thing. Of course, I had it hooked up to a kill switch so that I could switch it off once I slowed down after a cop could have the opportunity to read my speed, which he would initially find it very difficult to get a reading off my van for a couple of seconds (which was funny as my van was tall and had a massive front surface area, enough for a cop to read me at a mile away! lol), then I would switch the jammer off and by then, I would have slowed right down and he would _eventually_ get that mighty precious speed reading he was after, but it would always read just under the maximum speed limit by then... LOL!!
@@Ya_Boy_Roy It was started in response to Black Lives Matter after the homicides of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in Brooklyn, New York on December 20, 2014.
Love the guy with the binoculars in the back seat peeping the scene. Must of seen the highway patrol in Texas doing that. They pulled me over years back ,but i was in a moving van with a lap belt. So noooo ticket my friend. He shot across the medina like in smoky in the Bandit to pull me over i was like wtf! How did you even ses me without the shoulder belt and he pointed to his partner with a set of safari binoculars, lmao. Amazing Cannonball run!!!!
Test drove for VW/Audi in Alaska. One A8 had Driver Assistance, a thermal camera mounted in the grill. I could see a moose at night out to about 600 yards....VERY sweet!
So they stopped four times over 26 hours, that's 5.2 hours between stops (5 segments, 4 stops) - that's easily doable on a normal bladder, and you really could go a day+ without a deuce as well. It's probably not as big of an issue as people ask about.
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that upper lip aint moving much. probably had facial reconstruction surgery . judging from content, probably from a car crash. hopefully no one else got hurt
@@JoRgEChavez-to2xd I used to have a car with manual brake light switches. I could deactivate them or turn them on to mess with tailgaters. It was fun hitting the brake lights and stomping the gas.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 I'm glad that I'm not the only one who knows that it's nothing new. It's even been used in professional racing, although in secret since the rules forbid that sort of thing.
Fantastic story. I am just glad everyone was arrived safely and the only civilian injuries were to their feelings when a silver bullet whizzed by at double or triple the speed limit.
Let's say for whatever reason during the run the cops got his first license plate number and are looking for him. So before the run he changed the registration on the car so he has a second license plate that he can put on that is a completely different number and will come up clean in their system.
Congratulations to this team for their ingenuity in beating the Cannonball record. Disclaimer: I don't condone this sort of activity at all, especially when I couldn't even be a passenger watching the screens do their thing.
The German autobahn experience indicates that speed limits on rural freeways have little or no effect on accident rates. It is also interesting to compare Germany with Poland. There are speed cameras everywhere in Poland and their road fatality rate is double Germany’s.
TraxCS mostly for being able to unidentify the car. Police radios for silver car at high rate of speed. Not silver Mercedes e-class. At 100+ you don’t see the thermal camera
Nowadays provigil (modafinil) or nuvigil (armodafinil) are much more effective than adderal or meth and don't leave you strung out. For a previous move, I drove from San Antonio to Los Angeles at "slightly over the limit" speeds with provigil. Worked great, then slept like a log.
The TCAS system is crazier. It's a system designed for planes to receive a warning and an emergency change of course if they are about to have a near in-air-collision. So they were somehow using it to test for near aircraft and even if it didnt alert to to a near crash it may still be able to detect other aircraft by way of whatever process happens to determine if they were about to crash.
I'm more impressed that they thought to use TCAS, a system nobody knows about unless they work in aviation. ADS-B would have been a cheaper solution but I doubt all the police aircraft are equipped if they're not flying into controlled airspace. What I'd like to know is how they were able to get TCAS in without having TCAS out. TCAS out would have immediately alerted any aircraft in the area. To be honest now that I'm thinking about it... I don't know of many small aircraft that have TCAS? Usually it's large commercial aircraft.
@@mitchellroberts7954 I know about it because I binge watch air crash investigations. Very popular show and would expose a lot of people to basic details on very advanced systems. Some people are saying that they just used ads-b ONLY.
LittleBigParardise If the car in front wasn't there...then the driver of the genuine car could get jail, either way someone could, that's the whole point of a car in front preventing them getting caught 😂
@@arealassassin If there is any scenario that involves a law enforcement officer on a Cannonball, they were probably going directly to jail at those speeds
Most cops don’t really use their radios for stuff like that around here they use their computers and email and instant message each other for the simple fact that police scanners are so readily available and can tip off criminals to what the police are doing.
Yea my grandpas old scanner is a novelty anymore. You might hear ambulances and the jails around here with it but the cops are rarely on it. You could hear sirens going have it on and get nothing but dead air. And in a town with 6 cops on duty being a lot 3 at night you’d expect to hear something but not even dispatch announces stuff over the radios anymore
Best stealth scheme? Paint it bright yellow and write “taxi” on it. Second best? Plain “government” white. Add a few stickers (“Official use only”). Ease off on the window tint. No obvious black boxes on the dash.
So how is no one talking about the fact that they had 2 sets of license plates so they could swap them out.....this is why they’re the new record holders! These guys are thinking outside the box in many ways!
Have a jar of bumblebees ready. So when you get pulled over you can Chris Farley that shit. You were speeding because you were trying to run from killer bees. Or get a bunch of fake blood and say you were trying to get to the er. 🤣
I'm not sure how necessary it is. I think the cost is prohibitive and they don't actually do that anymore. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has been pulled over in the past 10 years due to aircraft clocking you. If they start doing it again, it will probably be drones.
