Hi everybody -

Gumball rolled into Toronto late Friday night - Here are a few pics from my phone (sorry not the greatest quality, was dark & they where coming in real hot)

I know there's quite a few others from T.O. here, so if you got some pics - Please post or when they arrive in your city


Olsen rolling (Actually, make that thundering) in with his custom Audi Razor GTR -





Audi R8 Rolling in:





Aston Martin DBS Rolling in:



A purple 458 . .??


Great wrap on the R8



SV


Aventador

 

CTS-V Wagon - Massive burnout with a cop sitting right beside the car:




Few other cars, parked for the night:

SLR Roadster


Nissan GTR


McLaren MP4-12C


R8 - With the coolest wrap


DBS

 

Nice, thanks for sharing

 

That's cool. Thanks for posting, gekko. Doesn't it cost upwards of $10k to enter? Regardless, looks like it'd be a lot of fun!

 

25k UK pounds (ahem) ... but who could put a price on such an experience?

 

Price was $40k - Friend & myself where tempted to do the first leg from New York (Times Square) to Toronto, but they wanted close to $8k Cdn, so we decided to pass on that!

They definitely have fun and many of them do it every year. Perhaps in a few years when they do a complete European Gumball, I might be tempted to join (where I don't have to worry about points coming off the drivers license every 30 minutes )

There where many many more cars that rolled in which I didn't capture, but hopefully this video from Autogespot shows you a better representation.



Here's are some pics I found on various forums (not my pictures)

 

Apparently you just did.

 

For those of us old enough to remember (Me!) the original "Gumball" was run in the early 1970s, cost nothing to enter, you could drive anything you wanted (one team drove a Travco motorhome, and one guy was on a motorcycle). It ran from New York to near Los Angeles, and the only rule was whoever did it in the shortest time won. The original had the somewhat cumbersome name of "The Cannon-ball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash". Also as I recall, one team of 3-4 Harvard students wanted to enter but had no car. They answered an ad for a guy who wanted his new Cadillac driven from the East to Los Angeles area. The guys had to sign an agreement they would not drive over the speed limit and would not drive at night, and they posted $100 to guarantee that. Thirty-five hours later they called the guy to tell him his car was in Los Angeles--and forfeited their guarantee ;-} Fun Stuff.

 

Was there in Toronto on the grid but not with the Aventador. here are are few of my pictures and an intro video. Amazing event. I will have to do soon.


ALBUM:

http://razzi.me/a/14440

 

A few clips put together from my mobile:

Cars rolling into Yorkville - Toronto:
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport (Team Trust)
Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV (Team Oranje)
Ferrari 458 Italia
Mercedes-McLaren SLR
Lamborghini Aventador (Team Salamone Winning)
Aston Martin V8 Vantage
Porsche
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
BMW Widebody
Audi R8


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuWhHXa-F3A

 

I remember when this thing was being run from DC to LA ... Apparently they go from checkpoint to checkpoint driving thru the day and then party at night... Lol running from the cops and causing havoc on the highway seems to be par for the course...