The Cannonball Run

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• Movie Goof (continuity error): When Terry and Mel get out of the pool after the Hawaiian Tropic goes into it, Mel is wearing socks and Terry is barefoot.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): The Japanese team does not speak Japanese most of the time. They are mostly speaking Cantonese, a Chinese dialect. The only time that we hear Japanese language is when the Japanese TV show presenter is interviewing these two characters. It is also apparent during this scene that the Japanese TV presenter cannot understand what Jackie's character is saying when he addresses the audience in Cantonese, which is presumably part of the movie rather than an incredibly glaring oversight.
• The ambulance used in the movie is the actual ambulance that Hal Needham and Brock Yates souped up and raced in the real Cannonball Run. It had been modified with a HEMI engine that made it go up to 145 mph and was equipped with four gas filler holes so that the required 90 gallons could be pumped quickly. Needham and Yates didn't actually win the race (the transmission blew in Palm Springs) so Needham kept it in storage for several years until the time came to make this film. After the movie, he gave it to a church charity which raised a good deal of money auctioning it off.
• Movie Goof (factual errors): When Victor and JJ are in the ambulance being driven to hospital after the boat accident, they ask Hal Needham how far it is to get there. They are given the answer "About 10 miles". Then they ask how long it'll take to get there and are told "Oh about 4 or 5 minutes". That would be an AVERAGE speed of a minimum 120mph, something that'd be highly unlikely through city streets for a high-performance vehicle like a Lamborghini, let alone a souped-up ambulance.