68 TRANSPORT AT THE MOVIES

THE SMOKEYGALLERY & THE BANDIT

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of iconic film ‘Smokey and the Bandit’, online used-car dealership Carspring has imagined a series of cars the stars of the film would drive today.

IT’S BEEN 40 years since action comedy The action of the film centres around a pair ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ crashed on to the of truck drivers carrying beer illicitly across silver screen, and, inspired by the anniversary, state borders, while carrying a hitchhiking online used-car dealership Carspring has runaway bride and pursued by her future released a set of images of modern cars the father-in-law, who happens to be a sheriff. characters from the movie might abuse. The To mark the anniversary, Carspring Dodge Charger Hellcat, for example, takes the commissioned the Italian transport design place of the Sheriff’s 1977 Pontiac LeMans team Inspire LAB to come up with a vision of (seen above). what the protagonists would be driving now. Legendary trucker Bo ‘the Bandit’ Darville The full set of reimagined cars can be seen (Burt Reynolds in a career-defining role) would on the Carspring blog: now drive a series of cars (opposite) rather ukcarspring.wpengine.com/ than the 1976 Pontiac Trans Am with a black cars-smokey-bandit-reimagined-40th- and gold paint scheme. anniversary INSPIRELAB

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The Bandit could now drive on the rough terrain with the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk

Reynolds’ character would be able to go off-road in style with the Ford F-150 Raptor

The meaty Honda Civic Type R would be able to outrun the Sheriff with ease

The Sheriff would never be able to catch up with Bo’s Ferrari 812 Superfast

The Sheriff’s Dodge Charger Hellcat has a top speed of 200mph

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