I totally do not believe that why would they before the movie even came out know it was going to be such an iconic movie and anything about the car so you're telling me that they went and bought cash for the fucking car and then drove it to the first showing of the fucking film unless you're in Hollywood or something promoting it you're fucking lying
I bought my Trans Am from the same guy who sold me his home! Sadly he was dying of cancer and had no need of them. He sold me the car for $1,500, which is what he owed on the loan back then. That was one fast car! Didn't do well in the snow or ice, and it sucked when I had my tee-tops stolen! I was sitting in a bar after work, and it was snowing! Great time to hit me!
joses nooooo the tag was BAN ONE. Bo Darvel was the Bandit and the car was Trigger. In fact, in the second movie they even mentioned the car was called "SON OF TRIGGER".
I was 5 years old when I saw the first Smokey and the Bandit film, and from that day on, I was a Petrol Head. The star of the show for me was actually the Kenworth W900A. But the Trans Am ran it a very close second. Such an iconic car.
@@gregson99 Video explains there were three of them, constantly being patched up from one another as the hard driving and stunts took their toll. Not sure there's any evidence one or more of them had anything special other than stock.
Ha! I was in NO WAY listening to disco OR wearing Polyester. Try Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Pink Floyd, The Eagles & Fleetwood Mac with Denim. Ditto’s to be exact. 😉❤️
I had a 1980 trans am wasn't a well conditioned car,motor going bad because it had a 301,yes a 301.Should have been illegal to put shitty motors in cars like that,but the chicks were mesmerized by it.That's the only good thing i remember about it
Ben Santiago back in 1980 the feds were wanting cleaner burning engines. gm had a problem with the 400 and 403 engines burning too much fuel because yu just can't make a bigger engine burn clean, not back then anyways. So gm killed off anything bigger than 350. that's why if you've ever noticed Chevy didn't even make a 454 from 1980-82. they brought it back in 82 as a heavy duty engine for busses and such. the 350 was considered top engine and was reserved for Corvettes and such. Pontiac only had one engine left of their own, the 301. And they tried to turbocharge it bit that did not help as much as they hoped. in the end the 301 left by 1982 and the 305 Chevy became the new top performer for the Trans Am.
I agree with you on the lights, but strangely enough they remind me of Pontiac 6000 headlights. So it's almost a what if sorta look. 4 eyes look right though and I couldn't imagine not having the 82 model which became KITT.
Don't forget the FCC regulated CB's back then so you needed a license to operate a radio. After Smoky and the Bandit, they had to many new license requests to keep up and approve. So they did away with the license all together.
The Trans Am in the movie must have been tuned up. It sure seemed allot more powerful than just 200+ hp. Great that this car is available in Gran Turismo now so us who will never own the real thing can drive it there. Kazunori Yamauchi must have seen Smokey and the Bandit. :)
I met Bert at bubba fest in pigeon forge Tennessee last August . The car was there too. Bert was really sick and ended up passing a few weeks later. Great movie.
As awesome and iconic as the Trans Am is, for me, the star of that show will always be the Kenworth W900A that the Snowman drove. But since I don't have a CDL, the car will do just fine. Great truck, great car, great movie.
Bragging rights for having driven such car but truth be known was these cars were not your every day driver and were in fact anything but fun to drive. Driving on rough roads was very painful, even bumps and cracks in the road made for a head banging back breaking experience. Oh the railroad tracks, you came to a full stop and went over them one wheel at a time. The original bandit cars I believe had 700R4 automatic transmissions which didn't last. Fun to drive on the road, NO. Fun to do burnouts and donuts in parking lots and city streets, YES. Most people got rid of them because they were not driver friendly cars, had mechanical issues, and back then people were stealing the T-tops.
James Barrow the 700-4R didn't come out until 1982. The 1977-81 Trans Ams came with TH350 automatics or TH400 automatics, both were 3 speed. Some TH350's in 1981 had a lock up torque converter.
Wow. This guy would give you back a really banged up car. He probably burns the clutch, tires and on top of that he chips the paint on all those gravel filled roads. Screw that
This show is about musclecars and such, they knew what they were doing when they let him borrow drive it. If he just drove it gingerly, they wouldn't even have a video to publish.
5:41... Mr. David is a little off on his knowledge. This was not the first black and gold paint scheme in production for the Trans Am. The Bicentennial edition Trans Am made in 1976 was also this same black and gold paint scheme except it had the bigger honeycomb wheels and the round headlights. I wish I had kept that car.
I have always love the Pontiac Trans-Am ever since I first saw one way back in 1977 at a car auction here in the UK. I saw the car long before the movie came out. But Wow what a great looking car, I think I spent nearly all day looking at it, while my father was busy looking at the boring euro-boxes we had over here in the 1970's. I've seen, and photographed quite a few T/A's since then. I suppose I'll just have to make do with my 1;18 die cast replica.
my cousins then husband had the 1st year of the trans am ( white with the blue bird), they lived near Portland Oregon then,( 1976) and we followed a 60's Corvette with a radar detector on his dash, down the Freeway over 120 mph. I was in the back seat, never forgot this.
I had a 78,one of the best cars i ever owned. This video would have been much better,had he cut out the backstory,cut back on the burnout footage and done more footage of the car itself,perhaps had some footage of one going through its modernization at the factory and actually talked with the owners of the company and really showed what goes into each car. I mean everyone knows how these cars got popular and everyones seen the movie so why waste time with all that BS?
My dad and I watched Smokey and the Bandit together when I was 7 and then I instantly fell in love with the car. As you can tell by my RU-vid channel name. 😂😂.
I had a Bright Yellow 1976 Trans-Am with the 400 Cubic Inch Motor. It was a Real "Dog" because in the 1970s the car companies were starting to put all that Anti-Pollution stuff on the Motors and exhausts. So my big 400 Cubic inch motor only had 180 Horse Power. Now-a-days my car's V-6 Motor has more Horsepower than that. 210 HP on my 2006 Impala with 3.5 Liter V-6, and 280 HP on my 2007 Grand-Prix GT with a Super-charged 3.8 V-6 motor.
Why do many older folks go right to Disco? Like it was a bad thing, must be because they couldn't dance, had no hair or just didn't know how to pick up woman. I wish I was around in those days, the music was fire, life was sweet and the women were off the hook beautiful. Add all that up with a Trans Am, I'm confident life was better than these hillbillies knocking it.
yep..disco led to many other dancing musics such as breakdancing..which lead to styles of Mc Hammer,etc..I LOVE disco and its culture..It gets a bad rep cause some people only know country,classic rock as "music"..too bad for them..
I was very good at picking up women (most often they picked me up) am no slouch at it 35 years later, and I do not need to be in a disco to do it then or now. A local grocery store offers a nice quantity of selections. Did you even spend any time at all in discos during the 1970's John Boy? No that was before you were born.
Should have a real Pontiac engine - today you can get around 600 pump gas hp from a 455 and you can order a Pontiac 8.8 litre engine for the Ban III - 650 + pump gas hp - keep it pure Pontiac :)
In the 80s, my buddy's dad had a 74 Trans Am. Same car as the Bandit, basically, but with round headlights. It had the shaker scoop and the bird decal. His was bright red, and had a 455 with a Holley 850 Double Pumper and Doug Thorley headers on it, hooked to an M22 Muncie 4 speed, with a 3.73:1 posi rear end. It was fast as fuck.
Low-profile tires on huge rims? "Modern" gauges and steering wheel? What was wrong with the originals? They had too much style and didn't look like they were made in China? No need for those headlights, either. I bet that engine's a dime a dozen crate motor, too. Way to take away the car's soul and turn it into a boring, tasteless modern car, Year One.
I don't like the fact that you were driving it around gravel and marking up the paint job. That is one sweet ride and needs to be treated with respect. Get on a road and punch it...stay off the gravel.
1977 TA was great. All Year One had to do was modernize the drive train and suspension/brakes and leave the rest original. Basically a resto mod car. Old and young could enjoy it.
He says the black and gold paint scheme was new for a production Trans Am. *Incorrect*. Pontiac released the special edition Trans Am (black with gold accents) for the 1976 model year. For 1977 they changed the rims from honeycomb to snowflake, they redid the nose and the 455 was dropped leaving the 400 and 403 engines. Also he says that Smokey And The Bandit "started" the CB craze. This is also *incorrect*. The CB craze was born from two things: (1.) the fuel crisis of 1974 and (2.) the 55 mph national speed limit. Because then the CB was used to (1.) ask which gas stations were open and (2.) where the cops were running speed traps. The ONLY thing Smokey And The Bandit may have had a hand in as far as CB's go, is to help propel sales of the CB, even though it didn't need help; CB originally was 23 channels, but the "fad" that came from it due to the gas crisis and 55 speed limit, caused a massive use to where the radio was jammed with users; thus on Jan 1 1977, the FCC allowed for an extra 17 channels to be added, making 40 channels total. Smokey And The Bandit came out around May of 1977.
David Welsh In 77, Pontiac offered 3 engines. A 403/185 for the enviro wackos in California, a 6.6 Liter/400/180 hp and the T/A 6.6/400/200hp in 77 that went to 220 hp in 78. These 400 would romp the 76 455’s. I bought a new 78 TA 6.6 in Oct. 77 and it tore the Z’s and 76 455 a new butt hole.
@@melrose9252 The cars engines were assembled by hand so there were differences on each one if they were stock. just because you beat one 455 doesn't mean you would beat all 455s or 350s for that matter as they were all the same block the bore was different on the Pontiac, for instance after being around over 40+ 2 gen birds the fastest birds were a 70 formula 400 4speed a 75 formula 350. Slowest 2nd gen 78 marti blue with 400. So it depends on who put it together.. If you wanted power on them you removed the cat, headers and ran duals all the way back with straights or your choice of mufflers ( turbos were popular back in the day) ported the heads, changed the carb, for an edelbrock usually, sanded the block to make it smooth where the heads went on, put on an aluminum intake, and changed the cam. Simple improvements on those cars and you would notice power boost with the pushing well over 300hp.
It did help the sales of the Trans Am I remember even my uncle went out and bought a brand new 1977 black Trans Am then he wrecked it a month later around a telephone pole.
The most Incredible Movie every made. (It hold the test of times) . Meaning people will never get tired watch All the smoke and the Bandit movies and sequels !! Its a 5-Star Rated Movie * * * * *
If you looked around. You could find the ones with the Oldsmobile big block in them. These were monsters torque automatics. Year One knows what there doing as well. You try and find a subframe that hasn't spread apart. Bushings wore out and crappy suspension that would rattle your teeth out. Also the doors were so heavy. They would eat the hinges up.
In my opinion, as soon as you start to customize one of these, they just aren't cool anymore. You could build up the engine, but you can't change the look at all. Especially the wheels.
This was a fantastic tribute and look back at the movie and the pop culture of 1977 and of course a great modern interpretation of the original car. Hard to believe that it will be the 40th Anniversary this year!. Smokey and the Bandit becomes better as time passes.In this day and age of PC, Euro 6 emissions, autonomous cars and social media...Smokey and the Bandit becomes more endearing and nostaligic.
My mom wrapped my dads 77' trans am around a telephone pole in 2000, she was ok, and surprisingly i was too because she was pregnant with me and my twin, I guess were lucky,
I remember a family moving into our housing estate in around 78/79 and the dad had a yellow trans am like the bandits! .... man! We all used to think he was the the coolest man on the planet up until the time he decided to run over my mongoose bmx ! ...... his excuse was .. shouldn't of been on the path!!... my reply was ...... I will leave it on the road next time its probably safer there!!! ... doughnut 😂
Stacy David is an incredible fabricator and mechanic. I can see where some of you may not have liked this and found him hard to watch if you haven't seen a few years of his shows. He tends to grow on you he is the real deal. He builds crazy bad ass shit.
