THE CANNONBALL RUN MOVIE LOCATION...THEN 1981 & NOW 2014

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Mon Sep 28, 15 10:59 am

Most of you may remember the thread i posted of the 'Smokey and the Bandit' then & now location pics when i visted the US last Oct...
http://www.moparuk.com/forums/viewtopic ... ht=#550214

Well on the same trip i also found this 'Cannonball Run' location too. I thought you might like to see how this location has changed over the last 33 years. The 'Olde English Inn' (as it was once called) is located in Decatur,Georgia,US.

*Note that the swimming pool has now been filled in and the canopy/car port roof has been taken down*

Then 1981 & Now Oct 2014

Captain Chaos · Post by **Captain Chaos** » Mon Sep 28, 15 3:32 pm

Brilliant.

One of my fave Car Movies and always gets a rerun when I'm feeling blue.

You are going to take the shortcut to the Interstate aren't you?

db · Post by db » Mon Sep 28, 15 4:31 pm

Dave81 · Post by **Dave81** » Mon Sep 28, 15 8:26 pm

One of the best intros to a movie...........ever!

This and the first Bandit movie............watched pretty much every week when I was a kid!

Great year 81........Cannonball Run and me!

68 beeper · Post by **68 beeper** » Mon Sep 28, 15 8:50 pm

Brilliant then and now

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Mon Sep 28, 15 11:15 pm

Like then and now stuff, regardless of who, what, where etc.
Back in '06 I went to Georgia and drive in to Covington, was a strange feeling, standing in front of county hall where Lee 1 made that infamous jump

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Tue Sep 29, 15 8:55 am

Its odd being there certainly. Although Lee1 didnt jump in Covington at the town hall. Lots of filming there, but the lee1 jump was at Seney hall - a few miles out of town. Its a university I think - I went there in 2003 (and saw lee1 pre restoration!)

Cannonball plane landed in Covington square though !

One thing I am annoyed about. Having only been over there once and having watched Smokey&Bandit almost daily when I was a kid , and the cannonball run of course, I had no idea they were all so close. Most of Bandit appears to be filmed on one road !
I missed out on visiting all the bandit locations and certainly didnt know cannonball was there too.

Might even have still been standing in 2003. grrr.

Rebel · Post by **Rebel** » Tue Sep 29, 15 8:57 pm

Thanks Morgan, my mistake.
I think a lot of road / car movie stuff was filmed in or close to Covington back then.