TMCC 39 The Perfect Cover

[Kanye_West]

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Welcome, my friends. Glad you made it. You didn’t hear about this from me and if anyone asks,

this conversation never happened.

Alright, listen close. What I’m about to tell you didn’t happen, at least not on paper. Officially, Monterey Car Week 2024 was all about champagne, concours lawns, and collectors flashing paddles at auctions. But underneath all that polish, we staged something Far Louder, Faster, and a whole lot Riskier.

We brought back the Cannonball Run.

It was the perfect cover. You’ve never seen so many exotics and show cars in one place. Slip a few more onto the roads at dusk, and nobody notices. Not the crowds, not the police, not even the concours judges too busy staring at chrome.

So when people talk about Monterey 2024, they’ll remember the auctions, the concours winners, the champagne flutes under white tents. But you and me? We’ll remember what really happened. The highway battles, the breakdowns, the fuel stops, and the one machine that crossed the country like it wasn’t even there.

And if anyone asks where you heard this story

you didn’t.

Summary: we are masking the 2024 Cannonball run with the actively running Monterey Car Week. since its going on while the Monterey Car Week you can fly under the radar from police

RULES

stable version
Model/Family year set within 1970-2020
Trim/Variant year set to model year / + 2
(if model year is 2004 then trim must be set to 2004 - 2006)
Tech pool limit 75 million

Price range

1970 - 1999: $90,000
2000 - 2013: $80,000
2014 - 2020: $70,000

WES limit

1970’s WES 3
1980’s WES 5
1990’s WES 7
2000’s WES 9
2010’s WES 10
2020’s WES 11

any street legal fuel types
No seating arrangement limits
No race parts
you have freedom with advanced editor with suspension and wheelbase change
no meme cars
no legacy bodies

Visual has to be realistic
(headlights, indicators and all that)
The car must have visual cannon ball modifications
(look at real cannon ball cars for these details)

Priorities

Reliability in general

your engine might last but will the body last the abuse?

Fuel economy

if you keep stopping every 5 mins sure you will get there but not fast enough, this is a race after all

Drivability

you are just driving in a straight line but a porsche 917 couldnt even do that well so dont do that

Sportiness

this is a race think about it

Cargo / Passenger capacity

this is a very long drive and you wanna carry alot of stuff for the car if needed and maybe a extra person to scout out cops

Comfort

have you ever sat in a straight up race car before? your ass will be numb, you dont want that

Price

i dont think its much impressive that you spent 1.6 million dollars to beat out a random audi A5 ,less is more

Practicality

how much stuff can you fit in this thing

Visual

you have alot of option to chose from and you either hide in the super car crowd or the basic traffic

Safety

i mean safety means nothing if you dont crash but you should be able to feel safe going 120 mph

Inspiration

POST MUST HAVE SMALL LORE
you need a character (driver)
and explain your mods

Submissions open
2025-09-22T04:00:00Z

Challenge closed
2025-10-22T04:00:00Z
post must be put up 48 hours after deadline

TMCC39 - Username

[abg7]

@Kanye_West

Trim/Variant year set to 2020

This refers to the tuned trim that is to be submitted, but why impose that rule when in real life, a stock example would have been accepted? Is it to keep everyone on a level playing field in terms of reliability?

How about setting different trim/engine reliability, drivability, and comfort benchmarks for each decade, and give older cars a stat multiplier to keep them competitive with newer ones?

[Kanye_West]

Yea rn im working on balancing rn kinda just wanted to get the idea out to everyone and some feedback

[abg7]

If the requirement for having both the trim and variant years set to 2020 remains in place, I could see myself entering a “restomod” based on a car whose model/family years are from 1970-2000.

The model/family year range, however, may have to be extended as early as 1960 (or even 1950) onwards, to accommodate anyone who’s interested in entering older vintage stuff.

And why not buff convertibles to compensate for their statistical disadvantage compared to their coupe/sedan equivalents?

Also, having every entry’s trim year set to 2020 will force all of them to maintain WES 11 compatibility, if (as stated in the OP) the rules are based on trim (rather than model) year.

[iastr_0]

why would convertibles be buffed? in a hypothetical real life challenge like this they would just be worse in almost every single way - make one at your own risk imo, and same for anything pre-1970 really, theyre not particularly suited for the task at hand

[Kreator]

@abg7

Also, having every entry’s trim year set to 2020 will force all of them to maintain WES 11 compatibility,

Aren’t most cannonball cars heavily modified? If they are, they may not meet WES 11.

[AKA_NOBUDDY]

I’m confused on how aero efficiency is counted. I can see it’s not a high priority, but i also don’t know what’s for the count on it.

[David_Herrera]

In Desing style, do you want us to go with the Cannonball modified car? (Like radios, fake badges, etc) or go with the base model which is going to be modified later?

[abg7]

I’m assuming we’ll provide a base model (no bells or whistles needed) for use in the Cannonball - whichever car the host picks as the winner will then receive some aftermarket extras, although we may add some extra features to our entries prior to submission if we wish.

[the-chowi]

I have two questions
Is body style unrestricted?
What about ATS restrictions? Especially wheelbase modifications

[abg7]

I’m assuming any body style (except for open-wheel, meme, and/or legacy bodies) can be used, as are advanced trim setting adjustments that aren’t too outrageous.

[Kanye_West]

@David_Herrera

In Desing style, do you want us to go with the Cannonball modified car? (Like radios, fake badges, etc) or go with the base model which is going to be modified later?

yea ima changing alot of the rules rn its kinda ass but yes

@the-chowi

I have two questions
Is body style unrestricted?
What about ATS restrictions? Especially wheelbase modifications

not really no its up to you

[Kanye_West]

@abg7

to accommodate anyone who’s interested in entering older vintage stuff.

uh no that isnt very stealth, what police isnt gonna notice a 1950 wagon flying down I95

@David_Herrera

In Desing style, do you want us to go with the Cannonball modified car? (Like radios, fake badges, etc) or go with the base model which is going to be modified later?

sorry if i wasnt clear but you are making a cannon ball car so you add the mods so it can be a cannon ball run car

@abg7

I’m assuming we’ll provide a base model (no bells or whistles needed) for use in the Cannonball - whichever car the host picks as the winner will then receive some aftermarket extras, although we may add some extra features to our entries prior to submission if we wish.

no

[Kanye_West]

Changed up the rules and stuff

(please say if something is wack im not a expert challenge runner on the engineering side)

[AKA_NOBUDDY]

@Kanye_West

Aero Efficiently

well going fast is one thing but being efficient is another

How’s this taken to account? is it the aero section while building the car or the aero score given to the body?

[Kanye_West]

@AKA_NOBUDDY

How’s this taken to account? is it the aero section while building the car or the aero score given to the body?

drag coe

[Kanye_West]

nvm ill just remove that and focus on fuel eco

[mart1n2005]

If I can ask a question and make some points

Firstly I personally preferred the original emissions requirements as right now it makes the wes limits hard to reach on an older car and very easy for a 2020 one. Any chance of getting the same setup as previous?

Along with that maybe some benefit to using lower RON fuels as 91 and 95 would be easier and cheaper to buy

Finally how are you feeling about restomods? Or at least updating an older car with modern engines, fuel injection or interior appointments

[David_Herrera]

Coast to coast in the Harris Strider

(Malik and Dre are discussing this years cannonball race)
—Man… looks like trash. Striders always been low-end rides. You sure this ain’t a waste?

—That´s street Striders man,I bought this former police Strider used in New Jersey — one of the police batch Firwood ran. Factory prepped these to take gear, but the city scrapped ’em ’cause they cost more to run. ZSW handled the performance side clean — cooling upgrades, ECU tune, reinforced suspension, emissions checks. They made it fast on paper.

—OK, ZSW made it fast on paper. But paper don’t mean we ain’t stranded in Kansas with smoke pouring out.

—I hear you. That’s why I finished it my way. Wiring tucked into factory cavities so it looks stock — radios hidden where nobody thinks to look, extra tanks plumbed into the frame below the trunk, NACA ducts feeding the core. That tailpipe? Disguise — inside is a fighter-style injector. At night we meet my contacts in Kansas. They pull up, we top off on the move. No stops, no pictures, no witnesses. ZSW gave us the muscle and the weigth reduction i mean, look at that carbon fibre rims underneath this alloy cubs; I gave us the stealth and the logistics. Also i put a comfty bed behind for the good rest.

—And reliability? Who’s gonna fix it if something goes sideways? We can’t just pray on strangers.

—ZSW did the heavy lifting for reliability. Every major performance part’s certified so if we need roadside help it ain’t some hack job. My work’s reversible and hidden — no permanent traces. And my Kansas contacts are pros: fill trucks that look like contractors, fast in and out. We practice the handoff once before we go coast-to-coast.

—You talk smooth. But talk don’t win races. I need guarantees — routes that avoid heavy patrols, backup stops, burn points, who watches the tail. I’ll sketch the Cannonball route. If I don’t see a clean line, we don’t roll.

—Fair. You plan the route, you call the plays. I handle the hardware and the Kansas crew. We run rehearsals. No flash, no paper trails. When we hit that interstate, we move like ghosts.

—Alright then. I’m sketching it now — timing windows, fuel legs, where we swap, who watches us. If this Strider’s gonna be my ticket, I’m not leaving the map to chance.

[oldmanbuick]

There is nothing in these rules to prevent someone from gaming the system with safety, e.g., setting safety to “none.”

I would suggest a simple rule to prevent this would be to say that every car must have, at minimum, standard safety from the decade of its variant year.