Smokey and the Bandit

[SAJohn]

This old movie just popped up on DirecTV and I am recording it. Even after all of these years it still makes me smile.

It owed a lot to C. W. McCall's song "Convoy".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPTWZQv0liY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhFtSc70BA

The song and movie must have sold many millions of CB radios.

John

 

[kodiakken]

That's a big 10-4 Good Buddy!!

 

[bogus bill]

Hey! Burt copied me! Me and my 76 Trans Am. His was a 77.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l320/feralmerril/4-1.jpg

 

[SAJohn]

Bill, You even had Burt's mustache.

 

[Fox Mike]

My CB is on the side tray of my toolbox in the cellar. I just can't convince the wife to let me install it in her Tucson. At one time we both had them in our cars. She was "schoolmarm" and I was "teachers pet".

 

[gramps]

Yep Smokey and Bandit live with me. Smokey is a cat, and Bandit is a Jack Russell Terrier! I enjoyed the movie too!
gramps

 

[bogus bill]

SAJohn, that picture was on my old photobucket account. I see now they blocked me!
Here is the same picture off "Postmyimage" account.
https://s19.postimg.cc/3sye6wzxf/4-3.jpg

 

[WAYNO]

And Sally Field is still hot!

 

[RSIno1]

My CB is on the side tray of my toolbox in the cellar. .

I bought a Ford Excursion to tow our travel trailer. I dug the old CB out to mount in it. Also bought new radio with Sirrus so we can have tunes/news anywhere. It'll also play DVDs so I put a screen in the back seat to keep the grandson amused on long trips.

 

[Bull Barrel]

You sounded a little taller on the radio...

 

[Daveboone]

this past week, semi house bound with the horrible heat, I watched Burt in "White Lightning" and "Gator".
Still very enjoyable, but about half his lines consist of his hilarious loud laughing.

 

[Mike J]

I remember when it was filmed. I think I was about 11 or 12. A lot of it was filmed in/around Clayton County, GA. We stood outside the Old Hickory House that was where Main Street, Forest Park forked off from Old Dixie Highway & watched. It was only a couple of blocks from where my uncle lived. That was where they filmed the bus stop scene. I enjoyed the movie. Clayton County is a different world now compared to how it was then.

 

[blume357]

Still can't quite figure it out... but a few years before that movie came out a I and a friend drove his Trans-am from S.C. to Fort Worth and packed it full of Coors Beer and drove back... I'm not making this up.