The Cannonball Run (1981)

The Cannonball Run is a 1981 film comedy starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise Farrah Fawcett and an all star cast including Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Fonda among others, and directed by Hal Needham. It was produced by Golden Harvest films. There were two sequels, 1984's Cannonball Run II and 1989's Speed Zone! The latter was also known as Cannonball Fever.

The movie is based on the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an actual cross-country outlaw road race from the Red Ball Garage in New York City (later Darien, CT) to the pier at Redondo Beach, California, just south of Los Angeles, organized by automotive journalist and the movie's screenwriter Brock Yates.

Among the teams are:

• J.J. McClure and Victor Prinzim, driving a souped-up but otherwise authentic Dodge Tradesman ambulance. (Which in fact was Hal Needham's and Brock Yates' vehicle in the real-life 1979 race.)
• Former open-wheel icon (and Scotch-swilling) Jamie Blake (Dean Martin), and his teammate Morris Fenderbaum (Sammy Davis, Jr.), dressed as Catholic priests and driving a red Ferrari 308 GTS. (Based on an entry in the real-life 1972 race, in which three men disguised as priests ("The Flying Fathers") drive a Mercedes 280 SEL sedan, which they claim is "the Monsignor's car" to an ecumenical council of prelates in California.)
• Jill Rivers (Tara Buckman) and Marcie Thatcher (Adrienne Barbeau), two knockout women starting the race in a black Lamborghini Countach.
• Jackie Chan and Michael Hui as drivers of a high-tech, computer-laden Subaru GL 4WD hatchback with a rocket engine.
• A pair of good ol' boys played by Terry Bradshaw and Mel Tillis driving a street-legal replica of Donnie Allison's Hawaiian Tropic sponsored NASCAR Winston Cup Chevrolet stock car owned by Hoss Ellington (it starts off as '75-76 Laguna but after they paint it, it becomes a '76-77 Monte Carlo).
• Roger Moore playing "heir to the Goldfarb Girdles fortune" Seymour Goldfarb, Jr., who perpetually identifies himself as Roger Moore; his character behaves similarly to James Bond and is only once (by his mother) referred to by his real name, making it unclear whether or not Goldfarb and Moore are the same or if Goldfarb is simply delusional. He drives a silver Aston Martin DB5.
• Jamie Farr portraying a Middle-Eastern Sheikh driving a white Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.