I bought a '78 bandit Trans Am in 1978. I was 22 at the time. Saw the movie at drive-in theater in that car. When the movie ended and I slowly cruised outta there, people were cheering and honking their horns. I felt like Burt Reynolds, if only for moment. The man's a legend and so is the car. The man that bought the car from me is selling it back to me next month. Completely restored. I got goosebumps just thinking about owning it again.

@magiccheeseball

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have it now?

@reginalddentry7338

3 жыл бұрын

Did you pay a slightly higher price this time , you don’t have to answer. I had a 70 mustang I wanted to get back and I watched a Lincoln continental rear end and total my baby .

@PeterSmith-ls7ut

3 жыл бұрын

@@magiccheeseball what do you think ? Lol

@magiccheeseball

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeterSmith-ls7ut dout he has it but i know people that still have muscle cars they had as far back as high school so you never know..i wish i had some of mine i see them selling for high amounts

@cycl0nnus

2 жыл бұрын

update????

I was born in 71 and i have the fondest memories of laughing my ass off to Burt’s movies with my Dad. Burt will always have a place in my heart.

@KingCornflakes

3 жыл бұрын

Smokey and the Bandit - I love this movie, still have the VHS today. Also Sheriff Buford T. Justice will always have a place in my heart.

Two American Icons - The Man and The Car.

@marioiacolucci

6 жыл бұрын

Savop what happens to the car after it gets sold where does it go from the auction?

@stenny1970

5 жыл бұрын

Mario Iacolucci John Staluppi is who bought the car. He has a Car Museum in West Palm Beach Florida. The people that buys cars have the cars delivered to where you live or want them sent. John is 1 of the Top Car buyers at Barrett Jackson. John also has had several mega yachts built for himself. He names them after the James Bond 007 Movies.

@keithzimmerman1354

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think you are getting the man but yes The car

Smokey and the Bandit is my favorite movie hands down...Burt Reynolds Sally Field Jackie Gleason Jerry Reed Mike Henry Pat McCormick and Paul Williams..just incredible actors.. ALL of them...my dream car is this exact car 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Black & Gold 6.6L...R.I.P. Jackie Gleason Jerry Reed and Pat McCormick!

@Kevin-tn1hp

2 ай бұрын

RIP Burt Reynolds too now

Burt Reynolds was the man in the days. So sad to see his Time is up RIP my friend

@SongWhisperer

5 жыл бұрын

Did Burt Reynolds die ?

@patriknilsson7098

4 жыл бұрын

@@SongWhisperer he past away rest in peace burt reynolds

You know Burt Reynolds did his own stunts for most of his career so by this time and age I'm sure he was constantly in pain. Burt was part of the Golden era of Hollywood the best days of Hollywood...RIP Burt.

@TopSecretVid

2 жыл бұрын

James Garner did his own stunts as well..He was in so much pain that its one of the reasons why the Rockford Files show ended.

@annaritaranalli1791

2 жыл бұрын

Reynolds as his other colleagues had many injuries because as know it 's very hard to do stuntman and especially dangerous

Smokey and the Bandit was the best movie ever made it was popular when it came out over 40 year's ago and is still popular my 9 year old son just watched it and absolutely loved it, Beautiful car RIP Burt

Coolest car ever. I was 6 years old when the movie came out. I always told myself that one day I would get one. When I was 29 years old, I made my dream a reality. I am 48 now and I still have it. I love that car.

That is one of the most beautiful, badass cars I've ever seen. The GTO Judge & the 1977 Pontiac Trans- Am. I wish I had one.

@louieflash7190

3 жыл бұрын

Never give up the dream.

This car is just light years in beauty ahead of every other car.even in the movies.what a beauty

@dennisholst4322

Жыл бұрын

They didn't have torque like a Vette had in the sixties those 455s were Sow engines it was more fun to hear the bitch yell and scream before it blew up

@dennisholst4322

Жыл бұрын

Engineers of those probably had ugly wives

You are missed Burt, I still see you pulling back that Bear Archery bow in Deliverance. A master piece of a movie. I watched Smokey And The Bandit,,,, thank you for story and run in life. We all watched you.....I am sure your east bound and down in Trans-Am.

@thebacdoc6464

5 ай бұрын

Bill, I remember that scene in that 🎬! Deliverance, was a disgusting movie, watching those back yard hillbillies ( white trash) with three teeth in their mouths each, try to rape and sexually humiliate those other two full grown men. But came out with that Bow & Arrow and saved the day. Re: Smokey and the Bandit, he is a legend, and so is the car. The 77 Y82 SE TA loaded with all the bells and whistles and the 78 Y88( golden edition) with gold velour, are by far, my top two favorite Trans Ams, followed by the 89 TTA indy pace car, followed by the 81 Nascar Edition TTA, indy pace car. The Nascar TA came with red Recardo seats, with red carpeting, and black door panels. Both the 80 and 81 TTA came with beautiful oyster white paint to. To bad those TTA's, couldn't get out of their own way...lol😂

The 1977-1981 Trans Am SE in black & gold is one of the top 50 cars in history.

Most bad ass iconic car in America’s history period

@headon434

5 жыл бұрын

NorthTexasFarming I agree but i love the 71 72 chevelles way better

@larryspivey5146

4 жыл бұрын

WRONG.!!!!THE Batmobile.!!!!!!!!

@robertcampion5311

4 жыл бұрын

Love the 77 bird but love the general too!

@chautauquawash7470

Ай бұрын

Nah ! General way better

Would take that over a Ferrari. Ahhhh childhood memories.

@robertpoudrette4483

5 жыл бұрын

I'd have as much fun watching one of these go than I would a ferrari or lambo.

@waynep1178

5 жыл бұрын

me too

@christopherpayne3530

5 жыл бұрын

That was my first car because of him

@johnseggler4753

5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@neilreid9005

5 жыл бұрын

Had a chance to own one exactly like that back in the day but was racing motocross and kept my van instead. Every time I see one of these, I think back to that day. Frankly it wasn't much of a performance beast and it was poorly designed from a mechanical perspective for maintenance, but what a beauty.

nothing is more kick ass than burt reynolds in a black bird.

@user-uu2uv8bw2s

2 ай бұрын

Besides Michael Keaton in his batmobile

I finally found the original movie a few weeks back and played it for my wife... she loved every minute of it and i drank coors beer in his memory

What a beautiful, beautiful car man. One of my all time favorite cars

@annaritaranalli1791

2 жыл бұрын

Mine too

Burt Reynolds is a legend

That paint looks like glasssssssss..so beautiful

Somebody got a million dollar car for half price. The most iconic muscle car/ panty-dropper ever. Period.

@Tweekend27

5 жыл бұрын

I would debate that. The 2000 ‘Eleanor’ is probably more iconic and went for $1,000,000.

@mr.c493

4 жыл бұрын

Iconic and beautiful cause of the Movie, performance wise it was not very fast. Cool car though.

@EtoTheKay

3 жыл бұрын

Million dollar car?! That car ain't worth the $500k it sold for!!

@fastmachines500r8

3 жыл бұрын

@@EtoTheKay youre a dumbfuck

@-007-2

3 жыл бұрын

If it was the actual screen used hero car, or Burt's actual car, than a million for sure! This is just a promo car. Never saw screen time. It's basically a regular TA that Universal owned, and toured around, and that's it. It has a universal sticker and some memorabilia. I'd say $40k for the signed hat, jacket, and promo material and $250,000 (at MOST) for the car. Someone got swept up in the excitement and overpaid.

The most iconic in the world! Rip Burt

I forgot just how gorgeous the T/A was...I especially loved the dash with the machined aluminum. We miss you, Burt!

Time I did NOT wish to see, was Burt passing. Love you Burt, you're the reason I show off today..

Burt Reynolds and his Trans Am... It is more than cult, it is a life philosophie! In fact, it is more than just a movie... Still and always we'll be with you Burt...

👍🏽As a kid looking inside & seeing that (( RAINBOW )) dash in the sun !!! R.I.P. good buddy.

Loved this movie as a kid especially the big rigs I became a truck driver in my early ,20s now I'm 49

@boataxe4605

3 жыл бұрын

Here’s another movie for you, ‘Convoy’, you’ll be spanking it by end.

Child of the 70s,God I miss the 70s.

They should have brought back the Trans Am.

@ppkaizen794

4 жыл бұрын

It's back

@brockholder902

4 жыл бұрын

PP Kaizen pontiac doesn’t even exist anymore ??

@602liljr

4 жыл бұрын

@@brockholder902 theres a company called trans am depot that converts Camaros into trans am and even works on the engines too

@brockholder902

4 жыл бұрын

BubblegumPimp ohh true i think i remember seeing that actually

@magiccheeseball

3 жыл бұрын

@meth_lungs true but they are all GMs so basically the same

I had the Bandit Trans Am Hurst edition mint. I had to sell it many years ago to pay off college debt. I’ve regretted it ever since. Absolutely the coolest car ever built imo. I will have you again some day old friend.

I had one of these.. it was a manual 4 speed though with the 400 big block 4 brrl.. god I miss that car. Good times

He's WONDERFUL and miss him he's the MAN

I can't believe that as a child we watched the movie on tv, not cable tv, for free. Now I have Amazon Prime and they want you to pay to watch it all these years later.

What about Fred. He’s one hellacious watch dog

@charger19691

3 жыл бұрын

He’s a tremendous asset.

Thought it would go higher especially with Burt sitting in it. What a great movie star Burt was love to watch his movies my favorite Sharkys machine.

@davidodell8781

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah me to Sharky's Machine and stick

@caseylee4266

4 жыл бұрын

Gator, WW and the Dixie dance Kings

@coldwinter5710

3 жыл бұрын

I started to put down my favorites of Burts...then got to about a list of 10, and could keep going...too many! He was a good man...and he is missed!

@-007-2

3 жыл бұрын

it's a promo car. universal owned it and that's it. If it was actually used in the movie, then we'd be talking.

One of favorite movies and car . Iconic for sure 🎬

We Miss you so much Burt Reynolds . R . I . P . 🙏🙏 Fance from Germany !!!! .

Me and my little brother went to see Smokey & The Bandit 9 times. Same amount of times we went to see BILLY JACK. It is so sad that both these great men are dead now Tom Laughlin and Burt Reynolds. When both of them died I cried I cried for not only them but for me and everybody else I knew on a personal level first, because with every day of all of us, our name moves one more notch up the list to the day we die. Closer and closer we get.

We love and truly miss you Burt !!❤

Perhaps the most memorable car of the 70's. Even the basic Firebird popularized by James Garner in the Rockford Files.

RIP Burt, The Bandit lives on in so many of us, even if the Trans Am stopped being made.

Some cars just look "right." This car looks "right."

@666mrjimbo

5 жыл бұрын

Needs a 6 speed Tremec ! Then it will be done ! 666 OUT

Two legends. Jackie Gleason made the movie though.

@jeremymccardle3696

5 жыл бұрын

they said he was off script most of the movie,,, just off the cuff and they kept the cameras going 😆

damn I never came here expecting to drop tears, great great moment. R.I.P. Bandit

I was 10 when movie was in theaters which saw the movie, then when was available on VHS I bought the movie as the sequel & now for past several years have on dvd including the sequel.

I think what would of been REALLY cool, is if it were both Burt Reynolds AND Sally Fields driving up in it, I just think that would of been more appropriate...but still cool as hell. I was a kid back when the Bandit movies came out...RIP Burt...🙏🙏🙏

@chrisfreand8800

3 жыл бұрын

i could not agree more with you. that would've been a show stopper indeed.

One of a kind. Realy The Man.

Most ICONIC Trans Am Ever.....

This was one he had to sell the Bandit two years back. I bet he felt like he was loosing a baby. As long as that car exists and runs the Bandit and Burt's spirit will always exist. That car is as old as I am. My husband is two years older than the Bandit. Can't believe he's gone. May the Lord keep him. Great video to remember him by and his trusty steed. It was emotional to see this especially when your from is neck of the woods. Few miles from Lake Worth too.

This is ye olde América that I love, grew up in the UK watching Smokey and the bandit every saturday lol great tô ser This video

Car truly does have a timeless beauty to it!!

Bert was a awesome man, we will miss him greatly. Smokey and the Bandit "Rocks"!

Sure do miss you mr. Reynolds thank you for what you gave me rest in peace

I have a 78 blk and gold TA 4 speed T Top..and a 71 Formula 400..i enjoy driving my Formy more because its the real hot rod..YS block .30 Built butler performance 500 hp..RIP BURT..

Always first, never second best. It's that streak of black lightning called the Bandit Express.

My dream car 77 Trans Am I saw smoking and the Bandit 16 times when I was 13 years old at the movie theater!!!!!!!

$500,000? Someone got caught up in the moment! lol

In the summer of 1977 we drove from Florida to Colorado in a black and gold TA with a Uhaul behind it. One of those small uhaul boxes with wheels on. Never see them anymore. By the time we got to Colorado the rear springs were permanently messed up. So the car sat low in the back. That summer was great. We listened to Fleetwood Mac on the radio through every town we passed. No tape or 8 track. Just FM AM.

Pontiac Trans Am “Bandit“ 77er and the Turbo!Beautifuls Car EWER!!!I haved a Turbo 81 in Brown but By Kickdown was Turbo broken.

The most iconic movie car of all time. In the South, Smokey and the Bandit is a documentary.

Half a million, holy shnikies!! Image having that kind of money to buy this car for a collection...wow. I can remember working at a guys house and telling him I had a smokey and the bandit trans am then he took me out to his garage and he had one in mint shape. I'll never forget that. One of the most iconic cars next to thr General Lee and Kitt.

The car,the jacket & the hat what a steal!!!!!!

Burt reynolds en sus tiempos cuantas peliculas realizo y ha sido muuy admirado por la gente dios le bendiga

When the CEO of Pontiac at that time died, the new CEO wouldn't give Burt one of these Trans-Ams he was promised by the one that died. He had to buy one. Greedy assholes, no wonder GM folded the Pontiac division!!! If it wasn't for this movie, this car would have been just another low horsepower, smogged up motor, decaled, disco ride, and all but forgotten from a collectibility standpoint. Burt, and the movie made this car iconic.

he refuses to read whats on the card they insist he reads lmao...

@JorgeLuis-hz4bq

5 жыл бұрын

Bonito carro y gran pelicula

@louieflash7190

3 жыл бұрын

Burt wasn't wearing his reading glasses. Someone should have given them a heads up.

🏁⚡️ What a rush.. Thank you!🌬💋

I wish I had money!!!! Great Video!!

Too funny! My Dad is 68 years old. He's doing pretty well after a scare that he'd given us here recently and just spent a week in the hospital. Due to heart failure. He's been okay here in there. But, he raised me of 85 and my two older brothers of 80 and 81 and my sister of 1991 by him self. He always says his first brand new TransAm was before the movie ever showed and his first Brand new car was a Dodge Duster and a few years later he told my Uncles wife when they'd went out to eat one day and he'd seen an earlier 70's model TransAm that was white with the blue birds that he was going to have one of those one day and he actually ordered it in 1977. It was black and gold with the newer facial. His didn't have the leather interior though. He had the red cloth interior and in 1979 he drove the silver 10th anniversary off the showroom floor that he'd purchased for my mother. And in 1993 he drove an all black one off the showroom floor. The 79 was all I could remember though. It was bad ask! The 93 was absolutely beautiful! He sold it in 2000 with less than 45,000 miles on it for $14. Back in 2017 we got him a 1980 that's totally redone. It's just not the same. But, to go back and look at the silver 10th anniversary TransAm case folder or the manifold with all the options and the old papers that are all dingy and shows the price with all the options is just crazy. It's a pretty plastic cover that holds open and actually has all the stuff, options and a picture of the 79. Funny how times changed. He never liked the 82-92. But, I loved them all!

My most sincere condolences to people that didn't own one of these cars when they were in their twenties. I had a 77, 79 and then an 87 GTA. I feel bad for people that have gone through life and never lived at all

@EtoTheKay

3 жыл бұрын

Well damn, using your logic a life just isn't lived well till your drive one of these. Please. I love these TAs as much as the next guy, but there is TONS more to life and happiness than what car you've driven.

I always thought Burt Reynolds was to cool growing up me growing up a car kid to a man that's why I had to own a couple in my life a Firebird Firehawk in '95 then a Trans Am Firehawk '02...wish I would've kept those cars love those t-tops and I had the 6-speed in both

You see, dreams can be bought! Rip Burt! And thank you! Frog ❤ Bandit....East bound and down, and they call him, The Bandit, always will!

That man to me was like my generation's answer to the Lone Ranger and Silver

Bought a ' 79 Bandit T/A brand new off the dealer's lot from Moody Pontiac in Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. It was gorgeous but rarely removed the t-tops because it was so hot. The car cost $9,250.00.

For the money for the glory and for the fun! Mostly for the money!

you filmed the TV?

Love this car !!!!

Beautiful car back then those cars was popular in movie or someone had one . In the 70s cars was beautiful 77 t bird was nice 77 mercury cougar Ford Ltd Lincoln and Cadillac Oldsmobile Pontaic those years was great movie music I'll miss those years To bad it gone like all the great actor are gone too

Burt still chewing his GuM...That's my old DawG

Forma the exactamente momento I learned through the news on CNN about the passing away of Burt Reynolds, AKA Bo "Bandit" Darville, I promised to myself remembering him each time i see a golden and black Pontiac Trans- Am on the Riad again.

I am a big fan of ,Bandit.

Totally awesome RIP to Mr Burt Reynolds aka the bandit

it was voted AMERICA's of all time favorite car as well as my fav car... 2;; the 69 charger DUKES OF HAZZARD...... MY FAVORITE movie to i was 11 thanks dad and my mom for taking us to see it he was my dads fav actor as well southern tradition

If I could have one I would. There are so many cars in the heavens.........

I was born in 1960 I was 18 years old I bought a 1978 special edition Bandit Trans Am mine had tan interior I love that car or should I still have it set timer I had so much fun in it picked up a half a lot of good-looking women good looking women

RIP Burt.. we love ya

Burt and a ‘77 is like JohnWayne and a western, Eastwood and a .44, Connery and a martini. It. Just. Belongs. Together.

ain't nuthin like the life of a Hollywood stuntman !

@bigjohnfury5662

7 жыл бұрын

woops wrong film

@royoverton9511

5 жыл бұрын

Hooper

@dennishale5211

5 жыл бұрын

Hooper was a good and funny as hell Burt movie too. The stunt man that jumped the rocket car in it got something like 50 grand to do that very dangerous jump.

I had a 76 version, nice car......mine had tan interior.......wish I still had it.....

I was 10 years old we I saw Movie at drive-in I thought was coolest movie still do. Years later talking to my Father-in-law worked at G.M. said movie was out sales of Pontiac Trans-am were all time high.

Rest in peace Bandit

east bound and down good buddy and i'm clear.

American Icons. Truly a part of Americana.

The bandit forever and always

My husband rip love this car

I had small Mattel replica of this car and reddish orange colored Lamborghini countach they I adored growing up in 1980! I wish I had the replica toy cars still but it’s probably inside a dump or buried a foot under the ground.

remember went those car word in the street back then now classic hard to find in that condition back then was popular you somebody in that car no matter what color or style was beautiful car power fast and look popular in movie great car great years iwish was back in that era good time music and movie it was easy to live now forget it hard to expensive to live

Legend.

Sure like to have mine back, it was Tan in Color! I had to pick from a Z-28 and Trans

He is definitely the man,,hell yeah

I love to hear the phrase.. "it's a real Z code car" bona fide

Rip, Bandit