Smokey and the Bandit stills
 

Since this is the 40th anniversary of Smokey and the Bandit (the NY premiere was 5/19/77, nationwide release 5/27/77), here are some stills that are not often shared:

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Awesome! Thanks for posting.

That.....looks like it would have been a lot of fun.

K

great photos! thanks for posting.

i've often wondered, but have no idea - anyone have any ideas how many T/As were 'abused' during filming?

can't begin to imagine how many times i watched that movie...

Great series of movies.......Sally has a camel next to the lake!

Thanks for posting them!!

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Honeycombs on the front, snowflakes on the rear.

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Honeycombs front & back.

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Snowflakes all around....

thanks for posting. We are so excited to see it tomorrow night

This is because ALL the Birds were 1976 Model Trans Am's ( GASP!! I said it!)
I saw what looked like scrap heaps at Universal in 1978. There was also two or 3 promotional cars made. I think these were 77's. The original 4 were NOT Oldsmobile engine cars, even though they looked like it. I actually looked under the hood of 2 . One got a rocket for the bridge. had a roll cage in it .
in 85 there was a long row of '82's used in knight rider at the same location.

I was always told that all of the Pontiacs used in the filming were crushed at a junkyard in Jonesboro, GA at the conclusion of the filming. This was directed by PMD, due to liability reasons. Witnesses said that parts were stolen off the crushed heaps, so those parts still might exist to this day. It would be hard to prove that they were removed from said cars.

Also, the 6.6 Litre shaker callouts were also used on the base 180 HP Trans Ams in 1977, along with the Oldsmobirds.