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On This Run, Way More Bandits Than Smokeys

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” a Burt Reynolds romp that starred a 1977 black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, a driving event called the Bandit Run 2007 was held from May 15 to May 17, according to The New York Times.About 200 participants in 85 cars traveled the 660 miles from Texarkana, Tex., to Atlanta, the route traveled in the movie. The event was open to anyone; owning a Trans Am with gold striping and a “thunder chicken” graphic on the hood, was not required.

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