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While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Could Smokey Catch Burt's Bandit?

Posted April 09, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

It's not the car from Smokey and the Bandit–legend has it there's one remaining original Bandit '77 Trans Am in the hands of Year One (inspiration for their Bandit III project). But it's not exactly a tribute, either. As the movie cars were all ate up in filming, more or less, round about 1978 Mr. Burt Reynolds picked himself up a TA, and apparently had it done up, Bandit style.

I admit, some questions present themselves. Prominently, was Burt driving around with the back of his head on his own face? And if so, how do you get Brylcreem out of embroidery, or it just preserved for all time?

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Re: Could Smokey Catch Burt's Bandit?

04/10/2009 7:05 AM

This is the Model year of the Trans Am Fire-bird I think of when ever someone says Trans Am. I never really liked the later years styles.

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