A 103 mph average speed, anti-air collision radar and a tricked out Benz: two dudes drive New York to LA in wildly illegal record time

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Two men drove from New York to Los Angeles in just 27 hours and 25 minutes last month, setting a new record in what is known among car enthusiasts as the Cannonball Run and beating the previous New York-to-LA land speed record by more than an hour, Road & Track reported.

Before they took the plunge and set off at 12:57 a.m. on Nov. 10 from Red Ball Garage on East 31st St. in New York, Arne Toman and Doug Tabbutt were just two car guys who loved illegally fast cross-country drives. But when they arrived at The Portofino Hotel in Redondo Beach, Calif., 27 hours and 25 minutes later, they became Cannonball legends.

“Don’t just meet your heroes, beat your heroes,” Tabbutt said in a mini-documentary that followed their record-breaking run on the car-focused YouTube channel VINwiki.

The record Toman and Tabbutt were racing for was set back in 2013, when Ed Bolian and Dave Black averaged a speed of 98 mph in their 28-hour, 50-minute Cannonball Run. In the VINwiki documentary, Toman described that mark as “pretty much unbeatable.”