A custom 1979 Lamborghini Countach very briefly appears in 1981's "The Cannonball Run," but it immediately became a cinema icon. Here's how it happened.

Meet the car that turned its single film role into a million bedroom and dorm room posters: the 1979 Lamborghini Countach LP 400 S from the 1981 movie “The Cannonball Run.”Back when ...

1979 Lamborghini Countach Hagerty Driver's Foundation. ... Now another big-time ’80s movie car joins the ranks: the 1979 Lamborghini Countach from “The Cannonball Run.” ...

The black 1979 Lamborghini Countach featured in "The Cannonball Run" has been added to the National Historic Vehicle Register of significant automobiles, which is maintained by the Hagerty Driver ...

Getting accepted to run the Cannonball was not easy. Terry Baker, who ran the last Cannonball in 1979, and worked with Stanton and Atwell, knows what it took. “This was Brock’s thing,” Baker ...

When The Cannonball Run came out in 1981, it marked the big-screen debut of arguably the most famous Lamborghini Countach ever: a black LP400 S, driven in the cross-country race by the unitard ...

And so when a van like this Dodge Sportsman in Transcon Medi-vac ambulance livery that is a near-exact double for the van driven by Car and Driver veteran Brock Yates in the 1979 Cannonball Run ...

A Cannonball Run documentary is in the works. ... Instigated by Car and Driver ’s own Brock Yates and Steve Smith, the original Cannonball Run was held five times between 1971 and 1979, ...

The aim of the Cannonball Run is to drive from New York City to Los Angeles, or vice versa, ... The street race was held again in the following year, as well as in 1975 and 1979.

If you see a car manufactured after 1979 with “Cannonball Run” stickers, it is on an event that is the enemy of everything Brock Yates stood for, and of American car culture itself.

M eet the car that turned its single film role into a million bedroom and dorm room posters: the 1979 Lamborghini Countach LP 400 S from the 1981 movie "The Cannonball Run."Back when Lamborghini ...