The Bandit Trans Am promotion car, which was given to Burt Reynolds when Smokey and the Bandit was released in 1977, sold at auction last December for US$480,000.

Arguably the movie’s real star, the black 1977 Pontiac Trans Am with gold stripes and a thunder chicken decal on its hood was the fantasy of just about every adolescent boy 40 years ago, who was ...

It comes with Burt Reynolds’s signature on the dashboard, a Bandit hat with case and gloves, and the black and gold paint scheme and decals that harken back to the original Trans Am.

I purchased a '77 gold decal kit from Classic Industries, and installed the hood and sail-panel birds. I then sanded off the taillight filler-panel emblems and applied gold "Trans Am" and bird decals.

To promote the theatrical release of Smokey and the Bandit II back in 1980, Pontiac produced a special edition of the Trans Am made to look exactly like its movie counterpart – and one of them ...

I totally understand, as the very first car I owned when I came to Toronto was a silver anniversary 6.6L Trans Am with grey leather and T-roofs. What a car!

That’s not all, Trans Am fans, the other co-star of “Smokey and the Bandit,” Burt Reynolds, has signed each of the 77 examples of the new car and was there to introduce the vehicle.

Built in just under a year, this 1991 Chevy S-10 sport truck was never supposed to be a Trans Am pickup. All owner Jamie "Duke" Stafford wanted was to recreate the first-gen, V-8-swapped Chevy S ...

The Pontiac Trans Am featured in the "Smokey and the Bandit" movie is probably the coolest example in the history of the Firebird, so it hardly needs extra spice, at least in the visual department.

Keith Peck is about to reach a milestone birthday. Like the decals read on the fenders of his beloved '76 50th Anniver-sary Trans Am, he too will soon be 50 years old. "The Big 5-0!" ...