Smokey and the Bandit - Trucking Culture Ep. 1

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[@TralfazConstruction]

Smokey and the Bandit made the summer of 1977 even more memorable and was the only film to give Star Wars a run for _its_ money. Forty-three years later and the film is more popular than ever.

[@charlesrobison6962]

Smokey and the Bandit was my favorite movie in 1977. Screw Star Wars and I was 7 going on 8 years old. Yeah I watched Star Wars but Smokey and the Bandit was the movie in 1977

[@davidhenry7585]

Smokey and the Bandit is one of the greatest movies ever!

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

One of the funniest things I have encountered happened in New York while I was in New Jersey. There was a sweep of bars in the NY Metro. They had found storerooms loaded with New Glarus Brewing Company’s Spotted Cow Beer. I’ve been trying to think up a script for it.

[@styldsteel1]

Well, it doesn't quite rank with Casablanca, but I totally get what your sayin!

[@dwaynemurphy814]

For some reason my mom carried my sister and I to see this movie when it came out, I was hooked on trucks from then on, I'm 50 years old and have been driving a truck for 33 years, thanks to Smokey and the Bandit. Wouldn't change a thing.

[@jonrichardson7848]

Back when trucking was trucking and truck stops were truck stops so sad how its changed and the steering wheel holders and knuckleheads that have gotten into the industry very few of good ol boys out here anymore

[@dustinlowry9075]

I’m 43 years I was born in 77. When I was little kid I would Watch Smokey and the bandit 3 or 4 times day. Thank you Jacks Chrome shop for giving us the info about the movie. Awesome!👍

[@jamiedalluge9472]

I'm 44,born in '76. My dad was a log trk driver up here in northern Wisconsin. We watched this every chance we got! Gives me goosebumps

[@edwardpate6128]

Damn was Sally Field hot!

[@coledavis5212]

She’s 70 and looks like she’s never aged

[@Dannyjoemustanggt]

She was definitely hot as hell

[@jamessimms415]

Edward Pate Nice behind @ 5:35

[@thelaststarfighter]

She had a nice ass

[@MichaelsMustang]

@Joe Billielo That is why she was hot she looked real

[@stevefairweather7792]

I got a 1977 Bandit trans am in my garage

[@RustyZipper]

🖤

[@chocodiledundee1]

The most powerful and influential motion picture in my life , I became a truck driver and Americana vintage cowboy clothing collector after watching this ultimate classic all the time when growing up , Thank for this I absolutely love it 🙏🏼🇦🇺

[@claytonscheiber3493]

I cant never see this movie too much. If it's on, I'm watchin. If I haven't seen it in a while, I'm poppin it in the ol DVD player. I really hope Convoy is episode 2.

[@jackschromeshop8296]

It is. Coming in June - stay tuned. Thanks for watching this one!!

[@clevelandmaker386]

@@jackschromeshop8296 that's going to be my first new car

[@scottgecias1022]

Smokey and the Bandit that's America

[@carlosbruxel]

Thanks all of Jack's staff that are making and bringing us all of these awesome videos! Just a tip for next movies content, focus more on telling us about the details of the trucks 😉

[@jelly7310]

I graduated kindergarten in 1980 and we were to dress up as what we wanted be when we were adults. I dressed up as Snowman, western shirt with the pearl snap buttons, Levi's and cowboy boots and hat. Lol. I ended being a diesel mechanic and later on a truck driver. I grew up in rural Alabama when most of the state was dry. I literally could see 3 of the 5 bootleggers house's on the mountain where I lived. My best friends parents and grandparents were bootleggers. I remember going on beer runs to Huntsville, which was north of the Tennessee river and about 45 miles from my house. My friends dad owned a field line and septic tank business, so he would take one of his dump trucks to Huntsville to a package store and load it up with cases of beer. His wife would be in a lead vehicle, usually a Camaro or Trans Am, to spot for road blocks by the county sheriff. Every vehicle they owned had a CB radio in it. I literally grew up in a Smokey and the Bandit/ Dukes of Hazard type of environment in Lacon, Alabama. The county I grew up in is still dry. Two of cities are wet but the rest of the county is dry.

[@buckberthod5007]

We need ones on Convoy, CW McAll songs, Maximum Overdrive, Black Dog etc

[@tyronekiddjr4505]

You gotta do maximum overdrive.

[@WiIdbiII]

I'm not gonna lie. I was raised in the seventies , and trucking movies of that era are what influenced me to become a truck driver in 1988 -2004.

[@TwinStix]

Two thumbs up 👍👍

[@paceta80]

Don't forget about Breaker! Breaker! with Chuck Norris.

[@jamesshirrell3677]

My favorite movie and car 77 trans am sexiest car ever built

[@SigmaStoicGemini]

Many people might not know, but Smokey was largely based on Burt's 1973 movie "White Lightning ". Watch it, the similarities are UNDENIABLE! Another great trucking flick before Smokey: White Line Fever with Jan Michael Vincent from 1975.

[@hawkdsl]

The only movie me and my brothers went to see together (our ages spread out 4-5 years between us). It was the best summer of my childhood, and I still think the T-Top black trans is one of the coolest looking cars of all time.

[@jamiedalluge9472]

It's insane how absolutely perfect they got that movie

[@Bama1963]

I love this movie, I have fun counting all the bloopers in it, there's no telling how many times it shows a cop in a pontiac and the next scene the same cop is in a chrysler product and vice versa.

[@blackscotydog]

Best damm movie ever made! RIP Burt,Jerry and Jackie. you made one hell of a movie! sorry I forgot Hal!

[@johnmilner3262]

blackscotydog “If you change one damn word I’ll kill ya.”🤣🤣🤣

[@shawnmcroy1]

Actually RIP all three Burt, Jerry, and Jackie. I’m still upset I never got the chance to meet and listen to Jerry “the claw” Snowman Reed pick live. His music solidified the first movie.

[@peterohmart5954]

That was the most fantastic and outstanding movie ever!!!! They could not have gotten a better person than Jackie Gleason for the part of Buford T. Justice. The cast was the best. Thanks for the great movie. I have watched it so many times that I feel that the word "Infinity" fits the time frame.

[@orangeguys2767]

We need a episode about the movie Convoy

[@JasonSmith-vd1sz]

Now that was freakin’ awesome!

[@nomaticvanduraartz1720]

I remember seeing it for the first time in the drive-in when I was a little kid.

[@CoalChrome]

1:30 that's Buford Dam Road, not 2 miles from my house as the crow flies, on the South end of Lake Lanier. I live right in the area that movie was filmed in

[@radarmike6713]

Love this vid. So is CONVOY next? Then White line fever, Over the top, black dog, Duel, High Ballin, Trucker, Thunder Run, all the joyrides, the other Smokey and the Bandit movies I know theirs at !east 10 other ones. Look forward to more.

[@jackschromeshop8296]

You guessed it ;) Thanks for tuning in Michael!

[@johnriggle5336]

Movin on?

[@kman-mi7su]

Don't forget that one where Henry Fonda played an ailing old driver and his truck was taken by the repo man. He stole it back and made one last run before he passed away in it.

[@dannyjones3840]

@@kman-mi7su The Great Smokey Road Block!!

[@kman-mi7su]

Fun fact: The Kenworth was put to work after the movie and the trailer was painted using watercolors which they washed off after the movie. Both the trailer and truck were sold off to be put to work and were never found again. There are folks out there who would love to find it.

[@RustyZipper]

But did the KW’s (I heard 3) used have Cat or Cummings? The audio clips sound 💯 like a Cummings

[@goodrichfarms8795]

Theres said that 3 engines were use... Cat, Cummins and a Detroit Diesel, but I'm not sure. One of the '74 KW W900a was an anniversary rig, with a gold kw decal... lastly, someone says the trucks in GA, with weeds up to the air cleaners...

[@kman-mi7su]

@@goodrichfarms8795 I heard that story about it being in Georgia, but its not been proven.

[@kman-mi7su]

As for me, I'd love to have Pigpen's Mack Cruiseliner from Convoy. Unfortunately after the movie it was put to work in Arizona by Bruhn bros. trucking. One of their company drivers laid it on its side with a load and totaled the truck.

[@goodrichfarms8795]

@@kman-mi7su I want to go looking for it! Once this covid19 is gone I hopefully am...

[@fatlarry1184]

Thru the 70's-90's I drove for Neptune Moving . On many trips back to NY from Texas or Colorado the head dispatcher made sure I had room for a couple of barrels (large kitchen boxes) of Coors mid load for him and the rest of the office. Ya hadda do it (if you know what I mean)

[@joewalker2152]

Great work!! Keep it up!!!

[@LUNITICWILL]

in all honesty, I like The Legend more than East Bound and Down.

[@bandit-ms6ys]

you better be lying

[@edmondsmith1709]

We totaly can't forget about the movie Hikack made in 1973.

[@MrMopar413]

When that movie came I was attending Oregon institute of technology in Klamath Falls, Oregon which in turn was the home of the Klamath Indian tribe. The Klamath Indians got a big payout from the US government and it wasn’t long before their was so many TransAms in that town that per capita their where more transAms in that town then anywhere in the US. You could literally pull up to a stop light and have 3 T/A’ surround you. It was unbelievable how many T/A’s where in that town. Crazy times🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪👍👍🎱🎱😎

[@goodrichfarms8795]

First movie is obviously the best and the second movie is pretty good. The third on is oof, it's the bride of Frankenstein... Smokey and the Bandit will always be my most favorite movie ever made! I'm 10-10 on the side, we gone, bye-bye!

[@TralfazConstruction]

You're right about that. There was a lot of anticipation for the first sequel and as you state it was pretty good 👍.

[@lukegillins125]

That was awesome. My favorite movie since I was a kid. Still watch and listen to Jerry Reed.

[@jmo6889]

One of the greatest movies of all time it’s so cool when I moved to Georgia to see some of the spots the used In the movie like were they got the coors beer in Jonesboro ga I was like way cool that’s history

[@calvarycustoms6681]

This is my favorite movie of all time, and is the one-and-only reason I became a trucker. “I’m GOIN’, I’m GOIN’... I got the metal to the pedal, and the... thing to the floor!” 😂

[@bigboicdable]

Love the video

[@leoo0076]

Dang I should watch more of these videos👍

[@noblejackson5229]

My favorite scene in this movie is when the Japanese guy driving the Complete Auto Transit truck takes the door off of the Pontiac. I'm sure that Ryder just loved it at the time.

[@vanlifethetravelinfranksho5611]

Loved that movie!

[@LobbsTrucking]

Best movie ever made

[@davesagan1245]

AWESOME!!

[@michaelbaumgardner2530]

Some very interesting facts....👍👍

[@just-incase3483]

Best movie from the 70s👍🏻 keep on truckin!

[@MrPlowboy66]

Gimme a Diablo sandwich and a Dr Pepper.

[@7viewerlogic670]

Great video!

[@gregster1950]

Just when I thought I knew just about all there was about this classic movie, I just learned a couple of more things!

[@highjix]

funny thing is, the restaurant they shot that scene in still exists and I happened to go in there the other day after a couple years and they now have the Diablo burger on the menu, they told me it didn't exist before. I asked the waitress how it tasted... she just kept repeating hot, the last thing she said before I fled in fear was that "You could smell the hot on it" I was there 05/16/20 the name of the restaurant is "Old hickory house" and is just east of Atlanta off the 285 bypass for those interested parties. If you look at the scene when they are bagging the food you can actually read the name of the restaurant off the bag they are using

[@dougc190]

I really did miss the Glory days of trucking. I was so meant to run in the 70s and 80s

[@fredhettesheimer404]

Are you going to do one on the tv shows Movin On and Bj and the Bear

[@jackschromeshop8296]

We have sooooo many on our list - this will definitely be a reoccurring series. Let us know what you’d like to see and we’ll add it to the list!

[@claytonscheiber3493]

@mathew lawton yes. Convoy needs to be episode 2.

[@emeyer6963]

@@jackschromeshop8296 White Line Fever with the late Jan Michael Vincent from 1975 would be cool to see also!Nice job with the video's

[@Chicken_Wing91]

Hopefully you guys will be doing one about the movie convoy because without convoy there wouldn’t be a smokey and the bandit

[@williamharvesters9021]

Even though Pontiac sales for that Trans Am 6.6 L went up 70%. So many people are getting killed in a 6.6 L that Pontiac dropped it to a 5.7 L Bandit motor.

[@emeyer6963]

Thought it was a documentary about the South.Who knew it was a movie!LOL!

[@andrescuriel4512]

Yes but after the film the president of Pontiac passed and bert was denyed a new trans am

[@roosthrower]

Thanks. Never knew any of that.😊

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

I was in New Jersey some years back and listening to the radio. There was a dragnet going through New York a Northern New Jersey as well as parts of Connecticut for bars selling New Glarus Brewing’s Spotted Cow IPA. How could we modernize this concept?

[@TCMECH79]

Sheriff Buford T. Justice is a county mountie

[@loganmosher5935]

Not Bonneville In The First Film The Car In Question Is A 1977 Pontiac LeMans Enforcer

[@joshuavallot8921]

If your going to do a video about this legendary movie you really need to start it off with a few first seconds from "the legend", Jerry's song that starts with the bandit starting his rig and reving it, its also the begining of the movie... is it really copy righted if you dont take and ppl singing? just that big beautiful deisel start n rev.

[@johnhipp7817]

Just curious. Coors was supposed to be kept refrigerated and pretty sure Bandits semi was a refer trailer but pretty sure the warehouse where they picked up the cases was not. Fun fact when Carrie asks if they are going 110mph she is reading the kph side of the speedometer!

[@leroymartinez6066]

And i thought white line fever and convoy was the best trucking films...one thing about them 2 films they made alot of sense..

[@kowboy.kez359]

Ok still got Convoy, Black Dog, White Line Fever, Over the Top, Maximum Overdrive,Duel, High Ballin', Movin' On, BJ and the Bear. not to mention Smokey and the Bandit ll. the third was trash without Burt Reynolds.

[@AirwolfGames]

God I wish I could get my hands on that truck 😭

[@dontefoster2927]

Who in the hell said Sally Field was ugly? She's fine as hell!

[@maxredding5163]

Great piece, very nicely done. I'm look forward to Convoy, Movin' on as well as your other vids. SAtB would have been to TOP grossing for '77 had it not been for that SiFi flick.....what's it called? (don't tell me, I'll remember).

[@billkilbourne6409]

Sally Fields had never done ad-lib before and Burt coached her

[@kingtahtdabricks]

@1:35 she said it was a 1977 film, thats in correct! ITS A 1977 CLASSIC!!

[@rockinbfarms2931]

26 people are in the swifts group shower room right now

[@adampatterson5475]

Nothing about the truck ?

[@RustyZipper]

m.facebook.com/bradwiketrucks/

[@RustyZipper]

Brad has a replica and a KZbinr called Twin Sticks Garage is going to start a tribute restoration once his Pete is done

[@mikeskidmore6754]

I have the DVD seems it has quite a lot of extra Intervies on it.. I think some of the Actors including Jackie Gleason has to work on Comission do to low budget.. I did not know about Colorado Kool Aide not being pasterized now the whole movie makes sense.. I always thought the need to smuggle Beer East of the Mississippi was a rather weak plot .. There is a Compnay making Modern Trans Ams out of Camaros.. and they Made Some Pro Toruing Trans Ams that were based in 1977 Sheet Metal but have modern engine and suspension 6 speed over drive Transmission.. They gave one to Burt before he passed away ..

[@justinclayton905]

How come nobody talks about the Kenworth?

[@matt2244]

With the paper hanging from his pant's.. clearly shows it's stuck on his sun glasses. Did you even watch the movie or just read from your script?

[@emeyer6963]

And Pontiac Lemans was used as Police cars in the 1st Smokey and The Bandit movie also.Bonneville's were used in the 2nd one.

[@davidwalle5025]

Did the truck have a cat or cummings engine.

[@swillm3ister]

Reynolds outlived Pontiac.... Am I right?

[@hannahllewellyn163]

Me my daddy watch this video

[@danzmitrovich6250]

And there is a lot of bootlegging truckers out there anyway don't matter how many state troopers stop them and check the loads on them they will always haul the illegal cargo at anytime

[@bodarville7860]

Ha ha ha!

[@goodrichfarms8795]

ALSO, MASS AMOUNTS OF CRINGE IN THE VIDEO SORRY LOL

[@markraven7316]

Great movie...love Jackie. The second movie sucked

[@sirvilhelmofyonderland]

Fantasy. Trucking is a terrible industry. Good movie however.

[@RustyZipper]

Some call it a Rolling prison cell

[@georgewilson1184]

I am a retired trucker I had a new 94 black trans am I liked the Smokey and the bandit movie but that is not why I bought a black trans am I was fascinated by the car and a TV show called Knight Rider

[@b-trucker7717]

So you bought it cause night rider then🤔😁

[@danzmitrovich6250]

That is one of my favorite trucking movies to watch at anytime

[@carloselizondo7671]

Love this, can't wait for more!

[@johnh1001]

Someone should make another Smokey & The Bandit movie . It will be a big big big hit at the box office .

[@1990hondarc30]

A good friend of mine drives the Snowman Tractor Trailer for Charity.

[@fifthwheelred6255]

The movie that got me in to trucking 👍👍👍

[@leonardcollier1512]

I love how they play Bill Weaver for the intro

[@CIorox_BIeach]

Smokey and the Bandit is the only movie I know of where they actually succeed in doing their job.

[@rickwilliams9618]

Great movie!

[@cindytepper8878]

I hated these kinds of movies. Made the trucking industry look like a bunch of unprofessional idiots. Encouraged a bunch of "lifestyle truckers" to get into the industry and destroy the rates