In the early 1970s, Brock Yates, senior editor of Car and Driver magazine, created the now infamous Cannonball Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, a flat out, no-holds-barred race from New York City to Redondo Beach, California. Filled with fascinating unpublished stories, nostalgic and modern-day photographs, inside information, and hilarious stories from this outrageous and hedonistic orgy of speed.