Moonshine was illegal because it could be used as an alternative fuel source for carbureted engines...had nothing to do with people drinking it, anything that threatens the value of oil get made illegal or patented and put down in the pentagon basement.

Coors also had to be transported in refrigerated trucks. Which made it a regional brand.

Beat me to it, yes, transporting beer wasnt illegal, just transporting Coors beer was.

Interesting, I always assumed it was a state tax dodge.

​@@davidgallagher6096I always thought it had to do with the alcohol content..I know until recently in Oklahoma where I live... We could not sell 5pt beer cold or outside a liquor store. Cold beer was only low point abv 3.7 I think it was beer.. so it's nice to know the why.

Oh please, any Burt Reynolds movie but Cannonball Run. Except for the sequel, of course.

Stroker Ace for good Burt :P

And "Gumball Rally" for more cross-country racing fun! 😉

​@@TheNighthawke502beat me too it. I thought Gumball Ralley was the better movie. Although Burt Reynolds and Don Delouise is what made Canonball Run so funny

I loved Convoy

"Not letting her go" isn't an option if she wants to leave a controlling and emotionally abusing partner. She had history of being abused, so it's a good thing she left. She called him a "preformed rut in her road" in her book. Perfect match of flaws, so they fell into each other and it wasn't pretty.

@@esaedvik Another good book that exposes the controlling and toxic relationship in Hollywood is the Sondra Locke book about Clint Eastwood called, The Good The Bad and The Very Ugly.

He was better off without her. She wouldn't have been faithful to him.

@@ItsMe-vg4vj Sondra Locke or Sally Field?

When he got gravely ill and passed Sally paid for everything

I was really interested in the 1 that wasn't her fault.

Saying "Only" for the majority of them is funny.

I'm more concerned about the people that she supposedly hit 😮 that is not cool if she's not much of a menace on the road!! That's dangerous as hell she shouldn't even have a license.

@@m.hreels9822 Well, she did say most of them only involved inanimate objects... though I'm really divided as to whether that is better or worse. 😏😏

​@@tomloft2000I'm interested in why she still has a freaking license. People like that normally lose it for 5 years after a certain number in a certain time span.

Actually, its a Pontiac Fire Chicken.

@@onlylooksitalian Screaming Chicken

My favorite car. Too bad I wasn't even born until 79, and never got the chance to buy one, lol.

Also, the ones with the Pontiac engines were some of the best muscle cars of the era. Very speedy. They essentially destroyed about three of them making the movie, and they weren't modified in any way.

" A pan am " 😂😂

And a fantastically under rated actor. Reed had real acting chops. He just wasn't that interested in it.

One of the great country guitar players of all times....Jerry is a legend....

I used to have a cassette tape of Dave Dudley (another country singer) music, and I remember his rendition of East Bound and Down.

wow did not know that

@@patricksullivan2261 I did like it when he decided to play the bad coach in The Waterboy.

There's a clear generation gap here, I guess. But the Trans Am was definitely a fancy car.

I really wanted a Trans Am, and got caught up in the whole Firebird vs. Camaro debate. Even though I crusaded at the time for Pontiac, this many years later as my tastes have aged I gotta say I think the early pre-70's Camaro were the better looking vehicle with classic muscle car lines. Heck, Pontiac GTO (the Judge), Dodge Charger, Camaro, Firebird... I'd take any one of 'em nowadays!

Pontiac in 1977 sold a car called the Can Am it was a dolled up version on a Catalina with ground effects spoiler and typical 70's ralleye stripes. very few were ever built and are collector's items today

Hilarious.

@@Chaddz3 The Can Am was based on the Lemans body. One year only car with just over a thousand produced.

MY BIRD!!!!!!

Jerry’s soundtrack is great. Beyond the songs, the instrumentals are tight. CB chatter tracks are fun.

Bandit, Convoy & BJ and the Bear all had me enamored wirh being a semi driver at age 11. Ma talked me out of it. Given she was a cop for a few years, I guess she was worried about my respect for the law 😅

Popular still nowadays, different but still a thing. Lots of YT videos on the subject. What happens when the cell network goes down…

CB Radio is coming up this time ❤ so many CB Radio friends install the old Radios another in cars and houses 🎉 Nostalgic yes but its working. This is a cult Film for that ❤ Digital speak is out welcome back analog 😅

You're not kidding. From Frb. '77 to late '78, there were CBs and Trans Ams from coast to coast. My Pops took me when I was 12. Man, I could watch this every night.

Burt Reynolds once said that breaking up with Sally Field was the biggest mistake of his life.

Burt and Sally fell in love while making this film

Burt & Sally would do the sequel 'Smokey & the Bandit II' together, as well as the movie 'Hooper' in 1978, the year after this movie came out. They also were in the movie 'The End', which also starred Dom Deluise.

I read they broke up soon after Burt wouldn't go with Sally to the Oscars the year she won Best Actress (Norma Rae). He was too jealous to be happy for her. No going back after that.

They where only together for 5 years and it was not a happy relationship, Burt Reynolds was a very jealous man & addicted to pain killers & alcohol due to injuries doing his own stunts which made it very hard for Sally to be with him. 🇦🇺🦘

Williams also wrote "Just An Old Fashioned Love Song" for Three Dog Night. His acting resume is fun.

My God, after all the years of watching this I didn't know !! Thanks for the info great songs !!

I believe he also wrote all the songs for the Muppet Christmas Carol.

BECAUSE HE'S THIRSTY, DUMMY!

I think he also wrote the theme for "The Love Boat" but I might be misremembering

yeah, seen "Smokey and the Bandit" over 20 times and I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

yeah, seen "Smokey and the Bandit" over 20 times and I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

yeah, seen "Smokey and the Bandit" over 20 times and I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT!! YOU ARE RIGHT!!!

The Villian was too.

me too!

and me, too!

I was 6 and I still remember my parents taking me to all those movies at the cinema.

And Elvis passed away

I was 22 and in my final year at university. Loved all those great films!

Actually...it came out the same weekend as SW

Shortly after I got my CDL I took my mom for a ride along. I'd never seen her eyes get as big as when she saw the fuel bill. 😂 I still like to do that at a smaller truck stop in our area where you still have to go inside to pay for diesel. Me: _"Fuel on 20."_ Cashier: _"Ok. That'll be $640."_ Entire line behind me: _"Oh my god!"_ 😂

What a wonderful memory! 😊

@@NarwahlGaming Nice.

“One of these days Alice, one of these days… POW! Right in the kisser.”

The line that always gets me. "Daddy my hat blew off" "I hope your head was in it"

Singer, writer, and master guitarman.

Jerry Reed is a Georgia music Hall of Famer. A terrific guitar player, and also known for his humorous songs. Check out "Amos Moses", "She Got The Goldmine, I Got the Shaft", "Lord Mr. Ford".

@@JPDillon She got the goldmine is not so funny to me after my divorce haha

Fun piece of movie trivia for everyone, can you name every movie that Jerry Reed and Burt Reynolds starred in together without Googling it

@@JPDillonAmos Moses was one of my favorite tracks from GTA San Andreas.. Jerry Reed is a legend..

This movie was filmed in Georgia, and the director is the famous former stuntman turned director, Hal Needham. Hal went on to direct roommate Burt again in Cannonball Run, and some of his other films are Rad and Megaforce. Either way, the decision was shown to premiere the film in Atlanta. Someone said about Smokey and the Bandit.. "In the South, this film's a Damn Documentary!!"

@@scottlyttle5586 don't forget, the inspiration for this movie came about because he was staying at a hotel in either Georgia or Alabama, don't remember which, and his Coors beer he brought to the hotel with him kept disappearing, come to find out his cleaning Lady kept swiping a beer from his cooler and that's how he learned that Coors beer couldn't be sold east of Texas so he thought "that would make a great storyline, some rich guy wants a truckload of beer for a shindig, so he hires Burt Reynolds to haul it to Atlanta, all while being chased by a Texas county sheriff" and from that inspiration one of the best movies of all time was born. If it hadn't been for some Flash Gordon rip off by George Lucas coming out the same year, it would have been the most popular movie of 1977, but don't worry, I know for a fact that every individual with a CDL has seen it, one of my best friends who drives semi has introduced his young son to the movie and last Christmas I gave his boy an authentic Bandit black diecast metal Trans-Am for Christmas last year. Dad was born almost a decade after the movie and was introduced to it by his step dad who is also a trucker

smokey was nominated for an Oscar in editing, but Star Wars took it

Ben Jones, who played Cooter, is also in this movie and I think John Schneider (Bo Duke) was at some point too.

And Ben Jones aka Cooter is at at the start where Big & Little Enos are looking for the Bandit. Also John Schneider aka Bo Duke is in the crowd at the end when the sheriff takes off to pursue the Bandit on his mission to get clam chowder.

So that was why he seemed familiar

Also played a small part in Forrest Gump.

Cooter and Bo from DOH were also in this movie. But you got to catch them .. very brief appearances.

It's absolutely a Soutern thing too. I don't think I heard Son of a ... until I left the south. Hee.

I would not characterize the law as near universally hated- especially among safety minded people.

@@oaktree1628I would

Cassie should be Bed Bug

Chapstick and Fetch is a great movie title!

he wrote a lot of TV music, including The Partridge Family and Muppets...

I've been in both of them lol

Speaking of Pan Am Cassie needs to watch Aviator.

A black and gold T/A was THE car to have for blue collar folks in the late 70s - early 80s.

are you sure it's not called a 'pam am' - lol. Sometimes her flubs just hit my right in the heart.

Also helped fuel the CB craze in the 70s in cars and people talking and listening to truckers on the road warning about "Smokies". Coors beer was only a fad at the time because it was illegal. There was nothing special about it but college students went crazy over it because it was hard to get in certain states and went for a premium price if you bought it off someone who made a trip and brought back a case or two.

I see a rotting one in a parking lot daily on my way to work. Exact same paint job. Makes me sad.

Thats why my first car was a 2nd gen Trans am martinique blue loved that car

Pretty sure the reason we have had the bad truck pile-ups in Texas and Colorado that we didn't have before is because everyone having CB's because they are faster than Google maps at updating truckers about wrecks up ahead.

Jackie Gleason's ICONIC role is Ralph Cramden.

Perhaps his iconic film role. His _most_ iconic role was Ralph Kramden.

@@keithralston1133 Hence his ad lib about "kicking Bandit's ass around the moon by now."

@@keithralston1133 True, but she didn't even know who the legendary Jackie Gleason was, let alone get a "The Honeymooners" reference. That's WAY before her time. I was pretty pleased to see country singer, song writer, and actor Jerry Reed again. I always did like him for some reason.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Fred was the reason I developed an affinity for owning Bassett Hounds. 😏

I remember the 70's

This movie revived her career too. She went onto to win an Oscar for Norma Rae after this.

@@tim2024-df5fu I watched her as The Flying Nun

yeah, Reynolds was quite the thing! we all wanted to be like him. he was a "Playgirl Magazine" centerfold. in real life he treated all women like..... aaah..... actually.....#2, or as they said In this movie, "10-200". near the end of his life, he said Sally Field was the one true love of his life.

Bear in the air = Police helicopter.

@@TroyConvers5000 10-100 taking a leak.

Evel Knievel = Cop on motorcycle Smokey Bear = Police cars Bear in the hardware = Police Military force Gear Jammers = Truckers 10-100 = loitering 10-200 = restroom Choke and puke = restaurant- truck stop F O = **** off

Choke and puke = road side restaurant

Chicken coop -- weigh station Swindle sheet -- log book

Snowman not showman

What you mean at the time still is

@@Dman0001 I know. Just my fat fingers.

@@rickstanford2180 i figured it might be his accent that caused confusion

10-4!!

That's a great handle for her. PIB 😂

Miss Cassie, just so you know, Burt and Sally were a couple for about 4-6 yrs, Burt said afterwards “she was the one who got away”. There’s also a “ Bandit II” sequel. The car is a ‘77 Pontiac Firebird “Trans-Am”. Everybody wanted one after this movie….. SanJoséBob

Also, "The Girl With Something Extra"

.... whoa.... mind=🤯

I was today years old when I made this connection...whoa

Is that a real quote? I'll be a sum-bich!

@@rebo2610 "Mama said life is like an eighteen-wheeler haul... you never know what you gonna get." 😂😂😂

🤯

Thanks for that info.

Coors didn't want to deal with the licensing out of their region. Regional brand always kept cold.

I grew up in Kansas & Coors was fairly big there. When I was 16, I moved to Michigan, right when they’d been allowed to bring Coors East of the Mississippi. I was all excited to get Molson & Labatts & all the people I was hanging out with wanted to get Coors all the time😞

Also, I don’t know if this applies too, but some counties across America are still to this day, dry counties, meaning no alcohol. Fun fact, the county where Jack Daniel’s is made, is a dry county. Weird…

I rode Amtrak’s San Francisco Zephyr (now the California Zephyr) from Chicago to Reno and back in 1978. They had Coors beer in the lounge car, but couldn’t serve any until the train crossed the Mississippi on the way out west, and had to stop serving it when the train crossed the Mississippi headed back east.

Yes, we ALL had a handle, CB owner or not, and we all cheered for the rebel truckers. It was one of those times when you could start to feel the restrictions bearing down on you. Since 9/11 it's off the chain and feels like a prison system to those of us who grew up in the 70's.

The kids now a days don't have a clue as to what 'TRUE' imagination is. You had to think and do things with your siblings or your close neighbor kids to have a lot of fun. Because there wasn't much on tv to really watch until later in the evening, and you still had to have your homework done and you still had to be ready for bed by a certain time. I don't know about you, but I lived around the Detroit area, so we only had like 6 channels to watch, and 3 of them were the same as the other 3.

We had 4 VHF channels including PBS and 2 UHF which were independent stations. Later we got one more UHF, and years later those UHF became FOX, UPN, and The WB (now CW).

@@kd5you1 I'm trying to remember... we had (of course) channels 4, 5, and 9 along with the VHF channels 41 and 19 (when we had a good reception day). It's slightly depressing to realize that most of the folks in this channel have NO idea what we are talking about.

@@Ranger1PresentsVirtualRealms19 & 41 would be UHF channels. The lower numbers (& sepepate dia) would be VHF.

"What in the hell is the world coming to?"

Always felt he was overrated.

The Toy

@@pvanukoff you watch your mouth Jr.

😂

He did so many great movies, including some dramas like “The Hustler” where he played Minnesota Fats, and “Requiem for a Heavyweight.”

That’s one hard-to-top day at the movies.

Pop Mama :D Good one :)

yeah, and think about the 'string' of surfer movies she was in, before her tv series "The Flying Nun".

@@samuelmoulds1016 Oh and I forgot about her tv role of Giget

She later became Forest's mom

She seemed kinda pissed at him after he died. Wrote about him in her book.

@@ct6852 Well, from his own admission, he f--ed it up.

@@Windupchronic Oh so he admitted it. That's interesting. In the interview I saw of hers she made him sound really clueless and ignorant about how relationships should work.

@@ct6852I seems like he was pretty clueless and ignorant about how just about everything worked. Spend way too much money and apparently didn’t think that the money wouldn’t stop flowing in.

yup, I lived just 2 miles from Snowmans house in Jonesboro the summer of '76 & seen a lot of the filming! Moved to Covington in '77 & got to be in the 1st episode of Dukes of Hazzard 1978 & an extra in Cannonball Run 1981

They even mentioned my hometown of Conyers. Selling any alcohol was illegal in a lot of Georgia counties. Mail order and online sales of wine was also prohibited in Georgia.

I lived in Coweta county where they filmed some of the driving scenes

A few scenes were filmed in McDonough. I live no more than a few blocks from the square and also Highway 42.

And the courthouse? What about the courthouse?

6.6 Ls is just TOO DAMN MANY Horses for some to handle (operate) correctly. 🤣😂🤣😂

@@mustang4life Most people actually! In addition it actually doesn't take very much power to get into trouble, it just takes a bit too much steering, or a bit too much braking or throttle in a turn. I've gotten into trouble with less than 100HP to the pavement. Usually it happens when you underestimate a turn and go into it a bit too hot, or overestimate your grip and leave a turn way too hot! Either way you're coming around, and end up at the back of the pack. People consistently overestimate their ability to drive.

@@sean---the-other-one The courthouse was a old stone building and stoutly built. The 'damage' was black paint and a few scrapes left behind.

Yeah. Girl I worked with spun her month-old Mustang out due to being too heavy on the accelerator around a corner. She had her kids on board on the way to school and wrapped the car around a tree. As she lost control a he saw the tree and in the moments before impact she thought she was about to kill them both. As it was she snapped off a wheel. I can’t recall if she got it fixed or got a replacement, but even that thought that her lack of control was going to be responsible for the deaths of her twins she still wanted to keep driving it.