After purchasing the car from the estate, he contracted Kennedy and the crew at Bandit Movie Cars to restore and modify ...

And true fan of Smokey and the Bandit knows two things: First, the movie immortalized the 1977/78 Pontiac Trans Am. Second, the car in the movie is actually a 1976, but was made to look like ...

(AP) The first car I ever coveted was a black 1978 Pontiac Trans Am with a CB radio and gold fire bird on the hood called "Bandit." Don't laugh. I was 8. My two favorite movies -- "Star Wars" and ...

With all that in mind, here is everything you should know about one of the most iconic movie cars ever seen: the Pontiac Trans Am muscle car used in the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit.

Pontiac’s offerings for the ’78 model included the standard 400 ... Like Smokey and the Bandit, the 1978 Trans Am is a classic. Makes you want to throw "Frog" into the velour buckets and ...

Not just any Trans Am, but a mint-condition Bandit-ized Trans Am that had been ... Hopefully for Reynolds, the proceeds of the auction will help the 78-year-old actor win a longstanding ...

It was this Pontiac Trans Am LE—or more specifically, a photo of it—that convinced Reynolds and director Hal Needham that this would be a good buddy for Bandit. After seeing the car in the ...

The Pontiac Trans Am owned by Burt Reynolds and based on the one in his movie Smokey and the Bandit sold at auction ... Reynolds, who is 78, said that he was selling the items because "it is ...

See All 8 Photos Trans Am Specialties actually licensed the "Bandit" name and font style from ... S/Es that were lighter up front than the 455, '78-'79 WS6 springs were swapped in.

If you happen to own a second-gen Pontiac Trans Am "Bandit" (the Y84 Special Edition ... It’s a 79 with a 78 nose but numbers matching and otherwise mostly origional. I ran the numbers and ...

But unlike the original, the Bandit Edition’s seats are modeled after the ’78 Trans Am, has an 840 horsepower to the crank compared to the original’s 185, and a specially crafted Bandit logo ...