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TIL that the 1978 Dodge Sportsman van disguised as an ambulance driven by Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in the movie 1981 "The Cannonball Run" was actually the real vehicle used by Brock Yates and Hal Needham in what was the final Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash held in 1979.

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