Featuring a star-studded cast, a key scene in the movie is when Burt Reynolds and Sally Field sail over a broken Georgia bridge in 1977. Produced with a budget of 4.3 million, Smokey & the Bandit posted an astounding worldwide gross of more than 300 million. After a couple of pictures, it was off to the next stop. Released in 1977, Smokey And the Bandit is the quintessential car jumping movie. While we couldn’t see that, we could see the expo buildings from the road outside the gate. Within the grounds, the grandstand next to where Buford and Bandit had their CB radio exchange at the end of the movie is still on site, although crumbling and grown over. We attempted to talk our way through the security station, but had no luck. Unfortunately, much has changed at the property, and it is now the home of a movie studio. It was also the scene of the roller coaster demolition in Smokey 2. Director Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds first saw the car that would be Smokey’s in a brochure from Pontiac trumping. This was the scene of many images from Smokey and the Bandit, including the truck roadeo at the beginning of the film, and the race at the end. Here are the rest of the Smokey and the Bandit car facts that will get you. The first stop on the journey was at the former site of the Lakewood Fairgrounds just south of Atlanta. This is strange as all the interior shots of the car show an automatic transmission.
The Bandit is hired on to run a tractor-trailer full of beer over state lines, in hot pursuit by a pesky sheriff.
With Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Mike Henry. As it turns out, Pontiac didn’t have any of the actual ’77 models ready in time for the. Smokey and the Bandit: Directed by Hal Needham. Only Director Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds first saw the car that would be Smokey’s in a brochure from Pontiac trumping their new look for 1977. When the camera angle switches to showing the Bandit step on the brake pedal, a clutch pedal can be seen in the bottom left of the screen. Here are the rest of the Smokey and the Bandit car facts that will get you through life.
Lakewood Fairgrounds – 175 Lakewood Way SW, Atlanta, GA 30315 Corrected entry: In the scene where Bandit is going to jump the bridge, he spins the Trans Am around twice.
As we tell the story of the trip, we’ll list each stop in order. We also made most of the city stops on Sunday, as traffic was lighter and photo opportunities would be easier to snag. Since we were coming in from Tennessee, we tried to route the stops down through the middle of Atlanta, then looped back around the east side and up to Northern Georgia. Much like Buford and Junior did 42 years ago, Adam and I just wanted to have some father and son time while chasing down some memories. While the movie follows Bandit and Snowman from Atlanta to Texarkana and back again, very little of the actual filming was done outside of Georgia. See more ideas about smokey and the bandit, bandit, smokey. Our favorite movie is Smokey and the Bandit, so we decided to make a run through Georgia and visit some of the movie locations. Explore kaoss board 'Smokey and the Bandit', followed by 180 people on Pinterest. In June of 2019, Adam and I jumped in the Challenger for a ride back in time.