Solo cannonball run - 25 hours 55 mins 55 secs

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We're talking about a solo run. One man, one car, a whole lot of gasoline, and an alleged 25-hour, 55-minute elapsed time. That’s an average speed of nearly 108 miles per hour.

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Fred Ashmore, 44, of Hancock, Maine, rented a Mustang GT, removed its passenger seats and other interior accessories, strapped in enough extra fuel tanks to bump the car's capacity to around 130 gallons, and made the trip from the Red Ball garage in Manhattan to the Portofino Hotel & Marina in Redondo Beach with only one stop for fuel.

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He says he didn't spend more than $3000 on his whole trip, including the car, its strapped-in, Facebook Marketplace-sourced fuel tanks (and fuel), and the electronic countermeasures that have become de rigueur for anyone wanting to drive at these speeds without landing in jail.

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To make it work in a rental car, he removed the rear seat and the front passenger seat to accommodate two of the extra fuel tanks he had acquired. He also stripped out the spare tire and jack and cargo area trim pieces and strapped the third tank—a 51-gallon behemoth—into the car’s denuded trunk. The two rear auxiliary tanks drained by gravity into the main tank through a factory access hole in the floor where the back seat was supposed to be. To get fuel from the third tank—the one riding shotgun on the floor right next to him—into the main tank, Ashmore used a small electric pump powered from the car's cigarette lighter socket.

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Never hear about the runs that fail for one reason or another, but kinda cool what he managed. 8 mins for refueling being the only stop he made in the span.

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