It took Burt Reynolds’ career to new heights and catapulted sales of the Pontiac Trans Am practically overnight.
Cb in the trans am in smokey and the bandit movie#
It was also the second highest grossing movie in 1977, behind Star Wars.
Of all the movies that cashed in on the CB radio craze during the mid-1970s, Smokey and the Bandit is probably the most popular. This is what gave Needham the idea to create a movie about bootlegging Coors beer. To their dismay, the hotel maids would steal the beer while they were away. Word is, Needham and Reynolds liked to drink Coors beer and kept some in their hotel room. At the time, Needham was Burt’s stunt double in the movie. Hal Needham, the creator and director of Smokey and the Bandit got the idea for the movie while filming Gator with Burt Reynolds in Georgia. In fact, Jonesboro, Georgia was used to recreate the city of Texarkana. The movie was filmed mostly in and around the Atlanta, Georgia area. The Bandit and the Snowman actually didn’t drive to Texarkana, Texas to pick the load of Coors beer. Reynolds was told by GM that the president that made that promise passed away and that the current president would not maintain the agreement.īen Jones (Cooter), Sonny Shroyer (Enos), and John Schneider (Bo) from The Dukes of Hazzard were used as uncredited extras in the movie. When he did not receive one, he inquired with General Motors to find out what happened. He was known to watch it again and again.ĭue to the success of the movie, Burt Reynolds was promised a new Trans Am every year by the president of General Motors. Smokey and the Bandit was Alfred Hitchcock’s favorite movie. This is the same style rocket Evel Knievel used during his attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon. The truck was loaded on a low-boy flatbed trailer and towed around by another 18-wheeler.įred, the Snowman’s Basset Hound, was picked by Burt Reynolds because he did not obey commands very well.Ī booster rocket was placed on the Trans Am to help it make the jump over the bridge. The 1955 Chevrolet Custom that was used in Two Lane Blacktop and American Graffiti was actually used for the Trans Am’s sound effects in the movie.įor many of his driving scenes, Jerry Reed wasn’t actually driving the big rig. If you think the Bandit’s Pontiac Trans Am doesn’t sound like…well…a Trans Am, you’re not mistaken.
While on the set, when he wanted a drink, he would tell his assistant to get him a “hamburger”. Here, he drives a silver and blue 1980 GMC General.Jackie Gleason was known for his love of scotch. The truck in Smokey and the Bandit (1977) that Cledus ‘Snowman’ Snow drove was a black and gold 1974 Kenworth W900 Model. After researching the vehicle’s history here in the U.S., he realized the truck had in fact been part of the Burt Reynolds co-owned Skoal Bandit NASCAR team back in the late 1980s.What truck was used in Smokey and the Bandit 2? Seems trucker Neil Ashworth of Huddersfield, England, is now the owner of a 1985 Kenworth W900B he purchased from another U.K.-based owner. Who owns the Kenworth from Smokey and the Bandit? Now, having only three Trans Ams to wreck for a movie is minimalist, to say the least. Out of four Trans Ams used for the filming of Smokey And The Bandit, three were completely totaled in the process.
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