About this episode

Tommy Thomas shares his journey from dreaming about the Cannonball Run in high school to finally attempting it in retirement with a unique Cadillac.

Tommy Thomas spent high school talking about the Cannonball Run and the next four decades not doing it. A career driving fire trucks will do that. Retirement changed the math. Now he crosses the country with a co-driver, a trunk full of countermeasures, and a Cadillac built to look like nothing at all. We get into the laser jammers, the truckers who help and the ones who don't, the cops who go either way, and what it takes to get from one ocean to the other before most people finish a weekend. Support Overcrest, Get cool Stuff: https://www.patreon.com/overcrest

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Host: Kris Clewell

Guest: Tommy Thomas

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Products: Cadillac

Books & works: Cannonball Run

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