We were down at the Perth Motorplex drags for a street meet in 2000 driving our 1991 Galant VR-4 trying to get the best times out of her when a discussion broke out with the bonnet up with two young guys (early 20's) when one said, "This thing goes like a cannonball down the straight, what is it?" Obviously the word cannonball made us smile, and one of us said "If only we were in that 1994 Cannonball Run".

One of the young guys standing near the open bonnet said "That's a myth mate, it (The Cannonball Run) never happened. I looked it up on the internet and there's nothing about it". We tried to explain that we were there, and then the guys looked at us like we were lying. As the young guys were leaving, one says "Sure mate, and I suppose you lost the pictures you took as well."

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Well, as a matter of fact we did have quite a few photos. I took heaps of rolls of film.

If you don't know what "rolls of film" means, you grew up in the digital age where taking one photo didn't cost you $1.00 a photo to take, or worse still, you didn't know if the photos you were taking would even turn out. We would pay something like $10 for a roll of film, and you got 24 or 36 photos per roll. Once finished, you'd take that roll to be photo lab and get the roll of film turned into 24 - 36 photos. If you were lucky, you could use most of the photos.