These new models were built off the same Camaro platform, came with the Pontiac arrowhead, flaming bird, and Bandit logos, and the instrument panels, center consoles, and hood scoops emulating their 1977 counterparts, and were signed by Reynolds. Burt Reynolds once claimed in an interview that there were actually 12 Trans Ams featured in Smokey and the Banditand he wrecked every one. What were the police cars in Smokey and the Bandit? These were the cans with the two circular push buttons on top instead of pull tabs. AWESOME! [23] It then opened in just the South of the United States over the Memorial Day weekend and grossed $2,689,851 in 386 theaters. In 1976-78, while a high school student in Norwalk, CT, me and a few buddies would routinely drive up to Vista, NY, which was just over the state line. Hal Needham did pass away as someone earlier said. I developed a pretty good bootheel accent during my time in New Madrid. A dastardly scoundrel? Three actors from the main cast of The Dukes of Hazzard appear in small uncredited roles in Smokey and the Bandit: Ben Jones, John Schneider, and Sonny Shroyer (who played a police officer in both). J.J. & The Dixie Dance Kings was a milder one that had (I think) a 56 Buick Century . You might think that seeing their cars routinely destroyed on movie screens across the country would give the manufacturer pause, but that is not the case at all. Burt Reynolds recently revealed the ridiculous number of Pontiac Trans Ams they went through filming 1977s Smokey and the Bandit. I know that Trans Am that jumped that bridge broke the axle when it landed. Im probably in the minority as usual, but I prefer the Black and Gold 50th Anne. And all of us easterners suddenly discovered it was nothing more than another Budweiser/Miller/etc. The gag with the overpass being blown up was actually a bridge built for the movie on the unfinished highway, and AFAIK, the truck driver who jumps the void ended up breaking his back in the stunt. Justice. Plus , I loved those late 1960s through mid 1970s Plymouths even though Im a Bowtie Guy by default . Nah, they survived by coming up with bras with very thin cups. Bill Justis is the first name on the credits for the soundtrack, as he composed and arranged original music throughout the film. The decals were changed to 1977-style units, as evidenced by the engine size callouts on the hood scoop being in liters rather than cubic inches, as had been the case in 1976. I own all three films on a dvd called the Smokey and The Bandit Pursuit Pack. [5] Sally Field only accepted the part after her agent advised her that she needed a big movie role on her rsum. Most of the shots that show Reynolds and Field in the car talking were filmed with the T/A being towed along on a lowboy trailer. Despite growing up next to Cape, most of relatives are from the Mid-South. This movie came out during my early formative years pre grade school. Gleason probably wanted too much money to provide the dubbing, which is a shame because it ruins the TV version. The movie had an even bigger impact on the Trans Am. If you somehow managed to miss Smokey and the Bandit in the years between the films 1977 release and now, you should rectify that situation immediately (to be fair, it was released two days after Star Wars, so its understandable if it slipped through the cracks). At the time, it was illegal to transport Coors east of the Mississippi River and a series of other truckers had been apprehended for trying to accomplish this feat for the Burdettes. He enlists the help of fellow truck driver Cletus The Snowman Snow, played by country music singer Jerry Reed. I only got one of them LOL. Jackie Gleason ad libbed a lot of his lines too. Two cars were reportedly badly damaged in early stunts in the film, while a third car was completely destroyed during the famous bridge jump scene. Here in Canada they didnt censor it, so we always got the sumbitch version. The Bandit takes the bet on the risky and unprecedented task, and recruits his partner Cledus "Snowman" Snow to drive the truck, while Bandit drives a black Pontiac Trans Am bought in advance from the Burdettes as a "blocker" to divert attention away from the truck and its illegal cargo. And back then what I wanted most of all was a highly customized Vette with exposed headlights. It was destroyed in Smokey and the Bandit II and in a flashback scene in Part 3. I have only seen pieces of the second and none of the third; I plan to keep it that way. He had quite a few orders for Coors beer, and when he stopped in Weed, CA, on the way home, he went into the Safeway and asked for twenty-four cases of Coors. A series of four made-for-TV spin-off films (Bandit Goes Country, Bandit Bandit, Beauty and the Bandit, and Bandit's Silver Angel) were produced in 1994 for Universal Television's Action Pack with actor Brian Bloom playing a younger version of the Bandit. Of course, it's difficult to asses whether these small decals did something to change buyer perception about the Trans Am, but it's an interesting part of the Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am's history. Needham stated that by the end of production, there really wasnt much left of any of the three. Depends upon what he converted it from. Weve got a long way to go and a short time to get there If it wasnt for Smokey & the Bandit, the Dukes of Hazzard TV series would not exist. According to an interview with Susie McIver Ewing on The RetroZest Podcast, she was picked to play the role of Hot Pants Hilliard after the dailies footage (shot in the Atlanta area) of the original actress playing the role was inadvertently destroyed on its way from Atlanta to Los Angeles. As I am finishing this article while Big Truck Week is winding down, here is a Kenworth with a 1973 Dodge Polara patrol car. As Fred Flintstone was modeled off Ralph Kramden, the Jackie Gleason character from the 1950s television showThe Honeymooners, the tone and intonation of the dubbing was highly convincing. I dunno about the Foley sounds, I have a T/A with a 400 and an open/no catalytic true dual exhaust, and it sounds really close to how the Bandit car sounds at idle during some scenes from the movie. I always think scumbum because when I watched it as a kid in the early 90s, it was usually on TBS. I was in West Plains the other day and there is yet another variation of it there. Well, the Corvettes success is clearly due to Corvette Summer, @Jim I remember that movie! The worldwide gross is estimated at over $300 million. Several other groups, such as the U.S. rock band Tonic and U.K.-based country cover band We Be Ploughin' have also covered it. Needham had great difficulty getting any studios or producers to take his project seriously, being better known in the film industry as a stuntman. Frog not included. Want proof? Please refresh the page and try again. Called Smoke is the Bandit and playing on Stewart's nickname, the commercials featured him as the Bandit opposite commentators Darrell Waltrip as the Snowman and Jeff Hammond as Buford T. Justice. I started cruising through EBay and the next thing I knew I won the auction for a clean 400/4 speed/T-Top 78 Trans Am. It had an AM transmitter and you would tune in the sound on your AM car radio, or on my case, on a transistor radio. In the 1977 movie Smokey and the Bandit, a high-speed chase ensues between the police and the Bandit (Burt Reynolds). If you notice there are several different angled skid marks on the road in the scene where the Bandit picks up Frog, you can see that they did a couple of takes of the T/A skidding to a stop and taking off again. Great fun! Along the way they tussle with tough as nails Texas Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason), pick up a runaway bride nicknamed Frog (Sally Field), and have all kinds of awesome times on the highway. Amazing how a combination of desire and unobtainability can make an ordinary product special. Arguably the most iconic Pontiac Firebird in history. I have since moved on from them, mainly because in stock form, they were not particularly great cars (though good enough for the times). Get ready to tear up the highway with the Bandit (Burt Reynolds), a fun-loving, fast-talking trucker who takes on his craziest haul yet - delivering 400 case. Neither Buford nor any other lawmen know of Snowman's illegal manifest, while Bandit is likewise unaware that Buford is chasing him because of Carrie, whose jumpiness inspires Bandit to give her the CB handle "Frog". Below is probably another DeKalb County cop car. The truck at the shell station is actually a 75 or 76 Toyota Hilux. Chevy brought back the Z28, and cant say S&B was reason. The film's editors, Walter Hannemann and Angelo Ross, were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing. And theres this nugget from the director of the coming new Shazam movie; I first watched Smokey on quiet swing shifts from the drivers seat of a 1977 Pontiac Le Mans patrol car, parked by thr back fence of the drive-in theater at the far end of town. Jesus, did you just call Carmine a car novice? A couple of years ago, I was sitting around on a lazy Saturday afternoon and it was on TV. Just do a search for Crown Victorias on your local CL. The original film had correct sounds that were usually recorded live as the action took place. In 1978, Pontiac delivered 93,351 Trans Ams and 93,944 regular Firebirds for a grand total of 187,295 cars. At the time, using "fuck" would immediately require an R rating and this self-censorship allowed the film to avoid this rating and reach a much larger audience. It consists of any of the various Louisiana-style hot sauces on Texas toast-style bread alongside the fourth most famous product of Pittsburg, Texas (behind Pilgrim's Pride, Cavender's, and Carroll Shelby)Pittsburg Hot Links. A Pontiac wagon from earlier in the decade. Director Hal Needham convinced Pontiac to feature the Pontiac Trans Am in the movie. [22] It premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, where it performed badly. [29] Alfred Hitchcock claimed that the film was one of his favorites. His expletive is obscured when a passing big rig sounds its horn. [17], In 1977, Coors was unavailable for sale east of Oklahoma. I have always loved this movie, watched it dozens and dozens of times on TV, video, DVD, laserdisc, almost any form of media. I've heard . The cars were originally ordered by a car rental agency in Phoenix, who refused to accept the . His personaround, dumpy, and clipping wordsreminds one of another fictional southern sheriff. A diablo sammich from my understanding is a like a Sloppy Joe but with taco seasoning added in for spice. A paper on Cognitive psychology was published in the 1990 issue of Computers in Human Perception. An effort to recreate a jump from Smokey and the Bandit doesn't go perfectly when the car takes a rough course off the ramp. These two 1967 Ford Galaxies (CC here), soon to be redecorated by a Kenworth road tractor, do not. The checker, not batting an eye, Do you want that chilled?. A segment of the CMT program Reel Eats used a sloppy joe-style recipe consisting of seasoned ground beef, corn, and sour cream. Smokey & The Bandit Police Cars. It was something regarding distribution limits. The man does get around. This small modification was made to remind viewers of Trans Am models from 1969, which had in excess of 300 horsepower. I dont know if I ever saw one in real life at the time, although I was pretty young then. Of course, we could argue that Needham could have used the engine note of a Pontiac GTO from the golden muscle car, but the 1955 Custom recordings were probably readily available, and he just didn't need the hassle. Some of the more recent DVD releases of it redid all of the engine sounds and it sounds much more mellow than the original(not happy about that).
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