A British Cannonball Attempt!
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2023
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Tommy Davies tells the story of his latest drive. Follow him on Instagram @coedyglyn
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YES! VinWiki is back. This is the kind of tale that made me stay here almost from.the start. Great story, nobody trying to make himself the hero, entertaining and a good insight.
Thank man glad you enjoyed it!
I indorse this comment. Wish more people would be more like yourself positivity is a rear virtue
wish you the best in everything you do!
drill hole in floorboard right in front of seat, attach plastic tube to hole long enuf to reach "the unit" with a funnel on "the unit" end, whittle down a cork to stick into tubing when not in use. It works well since a venturi effect "sucks" urine out. Learned this by a childhood friend showing me this setup in his grandpa's car. His gramps would make the wife drive on long road trips and he'd ride shotgun drinking beers the whole way down to Florida. This was in the 70s
Riding shotgun, hooked up to a piss hole in the car, slaming beers. A true florida man 😎
Piss all over the underside of car, getting cooked from the exhaust, the smell would be horrendous. Also incredibly corrosive. Not the mention anyone behind you or people in over lane getting sprayed as well
@@rapslifeandbudz4142brake dust is inherently worse for the body then a bit of steamy piss.
I find this story hard to believe. A man not taking the chance to drive drunk in the 70s? Seems hard to believe
@@DustinHasVideos his grand kids were riding in the back, so....
16:11 The NCT sticker on the fuel cell has me cracking up
Fastest Welsh time? Awesome story from a really great guy. Congratulations team, fantastic run
Maybe. Might depend on the co-driver.
@@ianstoyan he may well be Welsh, but his identity has to remain a secret.
@@kingcountrytowing ah yes. Wait until the statute of limitations expires.
@ianstoyan unfortunately it's due to his job, he can never admit to this little trip. More than a few of us have lost their jobs due to cannonballing
If you get caught Speeding in Europe your done. No matter who you are.
Same in the States, unless you're a foreigner!
@@karlnulnah, it’s nothing like the EU over here
@ryannitoi2993 In Virginia if you are caught over 90Mph you can be put in jail, whereas in France it is just a normal speeding ticket.
@@PointNemo9not in the uk you will do jail and a suspended license
@@planetsen Wrong. Up to 95Mph in a 70Mph limit is 3 penalty points and a £100 fine.
As far as story telling & painting a visual picture goes, this lad has the skill! After Doug and Arne, I’d say this guy is #3 🤟
That is high praise mate. Thank you
@@tommydavies936 you’re welcome ✌️
Don't forget Chris
*I recognise that car!* I had the joy of working on it recently, and now the official looking graphics that are surprisingly none official makes perfect sense now, had that gumball rally feel/tour de france/pace car feel😁 I never met Tommy so never got the story until now! The car is absolutely mint especially underneath which is highly unusual to any of the performance Audi this era, Ice blasting worked. I'm sure I'll catch up with him at one of the local meets
Bloody hell, and it’s a manual S5 V8!? That’s genuinely sick.
Plenty around in the UK for not much money. I had one, great car.
Congratulations men, it’s always a tough drive but you made it. Enjoy the memories.
Amazing to see a fellow Welshman do cannon ball! I'd love to do that !
There are a small handful of us boyos
Some say there was a Welshman at the helm of the c2c, allegedly
30:22 is wildly impressive all things considered. Well done lads.
I ❤ Roger
I got Stopped for speeding in Portugal, radared at 176 in 120 zone it was a simple fine and head on out on your Mary way
british cannonball be like "oi bruv I made it from london to aberdeen in 6:42"
100% right about nobody being mate with cops in the UK and Europe.
Life is for living - you guys lived it. Love it
Those pre-planned spreadsheets are great! Congratulations on a great run. Amazing time you put down.
12:18 Aussie BA FPV Falcon. Nice!! Those turbo Barras are phenomenal
If that’s the US, I wonder how it got there🤔 Would love to have one
@@kj.team-apexfrom memory an Aussie guy is driving it around the states
The only reason the french made you drive over the radar detector is because you're british. A french national would just go straight to jail.
Also, loved all of these fake plates haha
Well done lads, well chuffed for you! Awesome story and glad to have played a very small part in prepping the car.
Fantastic drives by all. Congratulations, proud to call you friends.
Great stuff, nice to see someone from UK do a C2C and a Cannonball.
There is a fun driving challenge called Beat the Sun where you race the Sun across the country in the UK from Yarmouth Ness point to Lands End either on the shortest day of the year in December or the shortest night in the summer.
I wonder if Tommy has done one......
jezza in the jaguar xj hahaha
@@ajcamp420 Yes exactly, that Top Gear inspired many people to try it.
Great story Tommy, glad to see you on the channel - can’t wait for more from you mate!
❤
Not all US cops are so buddy buddy. Getting caught using flashing red and blue lights and a siren is taken very seriously. It’s considered impersonating a police officer, and you would likely spend at least the night in jail.
That's why you don't use red and blue
@@karlnulOrange and white will get you in a lot less trouble
One of my dads friends did Gumball rally in a modified Audi RS4 estate they had 5 lads stacked in with loads of gear and they were overtaking Ferraris and Lamborghinis who were red lining lol
“In Europe they drive on the left” Bro? Your’re the only ones 😂
Japan.
1/3 of the world do.
Ireland, Malta and Cyprus as well as UK.
he meant left of the car
@@DankaDoctor185ah yes, Japan is in Europe
12:16 Seeing a Australian BF GT-P next to the UK Audi while in America is NOT what I expected to see.
Also has Tommy done any stories before? Interested to know the story of the C2C Express Jag and what he's talking about when he says he got "acquitted and got the car back".
It's on us plates though right?
Complete coincidence that we met Terry the Ozzy in a car park in Barstow. He noted the steering wheel was on the right and we both got very excited. Hell of a guy. Living the dream.
There are some more stories in the pipeline including the Jag and the acquittal.
@@tommydavies936 I remember Terry posting last year in the "Aussie Cars Overseas" FB group saying he was planning to do the trip. Pretty cool to see it pop up in VinWiki!
whats the deal with Holdens in US? Are they illegal or something? You're pumping sick amount of JDMs to the US, but Aussie creates strange aura of excitiment and mistery
Seriously, you're always getting so hyped about Aussies, that first thing that I thought is "they must be illegal"
Greetings from eastern europe. Theres not even a single ausie car :(
p.s If we speaking about down under things- Can anyone tell me how Opel Insignia (designed as transverse engined car) Is competing in australian V8 SUPERCARS?
Also how Australians feel when corporations try to convince them to rebranded, european, 3cylinder cars, when Aus hearts beating in V8 firing order?
Tommy is talking about being acquitted from a UK Cannonball run from most northerly point in UK John O Groats in Scotland to the most southerly point to Lands End, Tommy had car seized by police and he went to court and was acquitted.
I wonder what the record for Land's End to John O'Groats is?
The average speed cameras on the M6 would have the time of their lives 😂
It's 9 hours and 36 minutes, set in 2017 by Tommy Davies, ie, the bloke in this video. At the start of the video he mentions getting acquitted and getting his car back, that was the car he'd done the run in, which had been impounded.
12:15 that's an Australian Ford BF FPV GT 5.4L that's current doing a US roadtrip. Awesome
Is there somewhere where I can follow the trip online? Looks fun!
Petition for changing the title to "A Cannonball Attempt From Across the Pond!"
Only Americans call it a pond mostly
A Great episode everyone!
I live in Colorado, Denver rather. We grew up skiing and both my parents refused to pull over on the way to the mountains. Yah know “we told you to go before we left!”.
We always had the latest suburban for these trips (In the early days my dad would sometimes fold down the middle seats, keep the “far back” seats for when we needed to be belted in, build a bed type thing and obviously before built in TV’s, would strap a tv with the built in VHS on the center council for us to watch movies!) So they would have us climb to the “way back” behind the “far back” seats, put on pull ups and, well, go… 😂 Dad is still proud of himself for thinking of that. Mom says it was her idea. We kids say it was traumatic 😅
Number Plates - Le Jog is a popular charity event in the U.K. it’s from Lands End to John o Groats. The furthest two points from each other (with roads) in the U.K. it’s about 860 miles. Ish. 9:36 is how long it took someone in a silver Audi once. Hence JOG LE 936
This is the best! I’m desperate to go over with a U.K. team and see what we can do!
I have my xr3i here in the US still wearing it’s original UK plates and the coppers don’t do anything about it. If anything they take photos of it
I wondered where they all went, you guys seem to be importing a lot of our 60s to 80s RHD cars.
@@GM-ii8gs lol the scrappage scheme did that. I just went back home and found it hiding in a shed outside Manchester.
UK Reg on Irish plates in the US 😂😂
That reg is completely fake, it’s not possible to have that combination on either an Irish or UK plate.
Yep the reg is complete nonsense and very obviously fake as it follows none of our standard formatting. Surprised they did that instead of make fake standard uk prefix or NI reg.
@@shaunwalford3534presumed personalised plate
Le Jog is short for Lands End John o Groats. A popular charity event to run/walk/cycle. It’s under 900 m8les. 936 is time it took him in hours and minutes.
Ay I'm from nw England and I use waze it's far better than Google maps
do a cannon ball run in the actual UK shit would be over in 3 hours
I can only imagine. Police would be at your door faster than the run it's self.
The UK equivalent is driving from Land's End at the south west tip of England, to John O' Groats at the top of Scotland. Distance is 841 miles and the record is 9 hours 36 minutes. Unlike Red Ball to Portofino which is almost entirely on Interstates and other limited access highways, the UK route involves a lot of narrow two lane roads.
You haven't had to pee until you've been able to fill up an entire half liter water bottle....... and have to stop before you overflow it 😏
good to see a fellow welshman 🏴
nice to see a welsh bloke on here, tommy seems like a proper lad.
You need a 12Volt wet vac installed in the boot with a space station type hose long enough to reach the driver.
Same guy that did lands end to john o groats in 9 hours ❤
Who’s here after reading the pistonheads thread? Hopefully theirs a episode about the cars British achievements
How did that yellow falcon get in the us?🤔🤔
He's on a temporary import permit
@@kingcountrytowing oh ok, i thought it was on us plates 🤔
Never knew a proper canonballer lived just over the border from me 😅
Awesome Tommy 🙌
I'm scrolling UA-cam then saw the title A British Cannonball Attempt that made stay. wow Awesome Cannonball story. Love it. it's a dream to race the cannonball one day.
Are those fake Irish plates ?? 😂
I done Southampton to Blackpool in 3 hours 54 minutes (262 miles) if my maths is right that's just under 75mph average in a 2007 nissan navara pick up.
I’ve done sandbanks Poole to winnal Winchester in 35 minutes. 50 miles in a vw caddy.
Does make 200hp mind you.
Great video!
He didn't mention it, but i bet the barrel run down the Cajon Pass on the 15 was fun... Truckers on there giving him a run for his money i bet too!!
In europe the highways are so well designed, the curves, banking all done so well that as little accidents happen as possible not as much in the states
I Live in the UK and would like to do one here when im older , but we have Cameras on our motorways
Lots of Cameras!
Only some of our motorways. None on west side of the m27
None of the south side of the m3 for 40 miles or so, only a couple on the m4 near reading, none on the a34,a31 (not motorways obviously)
I have a 50 mile commute to work and only have cameras around the city none on the open roads since m3 works ended
very well put together video 😀
🤦♂️ “a high rate of speed” 😂🤣😂🤣
Back in the 80’s I blew by a cop going 100 mph in Scotland and was pulled over after a short chat and showing them my Canadian passport and apologizing they let me go. I guess things have changed.
@11:10 GoodCop/GoodMan! Watching this on my TV, I logged on to my phone just to post a POSITIVE COMMENT about the Wisconsin Officer. I won't speed in Wisconsin out of respect rather than fear
Where can i find more on the back story of his car getting seized and impounded?
Loving the Irish Plate :)
Same 😂
If he lives in North Wales how did he get an Irish passport lol. Took me 7 months to get an Irish passport and I live in Ireland 😅
I am quite surprised he didn't sue police for damage. I mean they took good working car, they returned basically barn find with moss and growing on it and rotten tyres and rubbers and all neglected. On S5 that could easily be £10,000 worth of damage... I am just not sure how it is okey to take car in one condition and return it in different condition. I know they didn't expect to return the car, but then equally they should have stored it decently whilst the case is being tried. And even if the case went their way, then it is disservice to tax payers as well. Cars like this are being auctioned, so in this case it would have been auctioned for scrap considering it's horrible condition... and that is the difference between tax payer getting maybe £15,000 and maybe £5,000, how is that acceptable work of Police?! Even then this is absolute bottom of the barrel worst S5 in UK, better cars cost more.
What's the tire of choice for these ventures?
btw the S5 V8 is the Best S5 ever
Respectable time! Would be interested in a story about driving in the UK ;)
Yeah that's a whole different story 😂
You really wouldn’t, it’s near on impossible to do speed for any length of time, it’s not police that get you..it’s the damn cameras that are placed every couple of miles.
@@neilneilorangepeel So many cameras!!
You'd probably have to take your number plates off but they'd likely still catch you somehow 😂
@@neilneilorangepeel It's the average speed cameras that really make me sad - nothing to do about them really unless you're lucky with trucks to shadow waaay too close as you go under the gantry
12:10 and previously in this video, dude is a bit Dyslexic and I'm all for it 😅
Aussie BF FPV in the US. Nice...
Speaking to the cops eyes lighting up and waiting to take pictures. Not all Americans are bad people.(It's rare a cop doesn't decide to crack down on foreigners.) I worked serving the athletes during the world track event. I got to eat my dinner with them a few times. It was fun. I was genuinely interested in learning about their countries through their stories. I met a woman from Finland, I was ready to go home with her if she asked after a few conversations. It sounds so much more pleasant there than here. She was super nice too.
Verbiage pulled directly from Greg Davies' "Fecal Jackson Pollack" incident...or does everyone in the UK just speak like that?
Casey putchs head just exploded 😂
Need more valet stories
Waze has a server in Israel because that is where it was originally developed before Google bought it.
You had a Falcon XR8 there?
Waze is great. I run it on my crotch rocket, for spirited rides.
Did they do it on the right side of the road?!
Left is right right Is wrong?
210 is normal to be torture
I have to ask about those strange yellow Irish plates, they say Tiobraid Arann/Tipperary, but the two letter county code it LE and JOG where the year of the car number is.
Think it’s a uk reg printed on an Irish plate
Think it’s a uk reg printed on an Irish plate
@@Jm_16216 It doesnt follow any sort of UK reg formats. like for example in mainland UK a reg is formatted :LL99 LLL and in Northern Ireland its: LLL 9999
@@pipeqez911 It's a fake plate he made to commemorate his UK record- JOG= John O Groats.. LE= Lands end.. 936= 9hrs 36mins
@@sonconmas Ah ok that's pretty cool, I wonder why he chose to use an Irish plate from Tipperary, maybe family from there possibly.
Clicked because I have a b8 s5 lol. Good story 👍
I don't know what the opposite to Cannonball is (Snail Ball?) but i'd do that! If these a "race" to be the Slowest to finish id try to win. There is So Much Beauty to see across America i'd be stopping every Half Hour for Photos!🇬🇧👏
No idea if you ever Finished one story. Where you were and what time. What year it was ever.
You should have cut out the part were he pretty much said they was toll evading.
Most of what there doing is illegal so it doesn’t matter
Do you have to use the same car for the cannonball run? Or are you aloud to use multiple cars?
Now this is an interesting concept, have car stops not fuel stops. Not ssure of it would count officially though
Same car
Redball to the Portofino... Spring 2024... Deramax powered...
Aquited from what?🤔
That's a whole different story.
As his legal advisor, I'm saying nothing motoring related
Sorry to go off topic here. But what's the song in title?
Thantastick thing to do as long as you don't pass yourself!!!
Didn’t take any Inspiration from Alex Roy…. Or Greg Davies for that matter 😂😂
Huge Inspiration 😂
What was he aquited from?
There are worse places to be stuck than Halifax!
is there a place where we can see those runs and not just a story?
I disagree about police in Europe, I was stationed in Italy for five years. I got pulled over/stopped numerous times heavily exceeding the speed limit and never once got a fine. One of my favorite stories, I was going about 200/210kph on the Autostrada in my shitty (but pretty) 2012 Hyundai Genesis Coupe (very rare to see in Italy and most wouldn’t know what the car was). I accidentally passed a police I didn’t see hidden in front of a semi truck, once I noticed I slowed down a bit and saw the blue lights coming up on me and thought I was screwed. The officers did pull me over, the only things they said were please slow down, and proceeded to ask about the car that had numerous modifications that were illegal in the country. After which they said have a nice day and let me go.
I wouldn’t admit to using the lights and siren to be honest.
In the US using police lights or Sirens can get your car in pounded, you were lucky.
It would be prison in Europe.
Best Euro-peein in every state run
I was disappointed that you didn't get yourself arrested for using "lights and sirens".
Sorry mate. Next time.
Good lucky
Sign me up for the next one
The way he talks about UK Cops is clearly based off his own personal experiences. I've never had issues with them. Got pulled over for launching from a set of lights up to 85 in a 40. Pulled over, turned the car off, sunk my face and let him know he was absolutely right and that I was being an idiot. He was telling me about how if he was to give me anything it would be a court summons, he was telling me about how I was dangerously undertaking (nobody was infront of me), but just go along with it, let them know they're right. Told him I'd never done it before (I do it everytime I'm at those lights). Got off with a verbal warning.
Plenty of clips online too of cops just being decent blokes even to those who are in pretty serious situations.
Lucky you, 105 in a 70, got an 8 week ban.
Is no one going to point out the Ford Falcon FPV BF series at 12:15? Since when?
It's the first time I've seen one in the US as well. Guessing it was a personal import or was there for an event as some Australian guys will get their cars over there for stuff like Drag Week. Though I'll admit it's the first time I've seen a later model Falcon. Amusing that it's a GT-P as opposed to an F6 though.
@@LimitR Yeah, but I vividly know that the if a certain car that younger than 25 years old and its in America for an event, they would not get a number plate, thats unless they did what the Holden owner did that was featured on VinWiki a while back. Nevertheless, its still cool to see a Falcon in the states.
It's on a visitor permit, he's on tour
@@kingcountrytowing Okay that makes a lot more sense, thanks for the clarification
@forzahorizonclips9551 no worries at all, I was talking to Tommy about it the other day, they met after the run
wait they don't let you have radar detectors in europe? that's kinda fucked, is like saying you can't listen to radio
What? Not even close. We do however have the freedom to import what ever car we want from anywhere in the world without having to wait 25 years😂😂😂😂😂
In uk they don't really work anyway as police dont use it nor do most cameras
After I got acquited?🤠