

Justice, aka Smokey, and his dimwitted deputy son, avoiding arrest for hauling contraband across state lines.

To make it in time, the duo has to contend with Sheriff Buford T. While Bandit never actually drives a truck in the film, he does escort his buddy played by country star Jerry Reed, who wrote and recorded the theme song, in a fresh and shiny 1977 Pontiac Trans Am fitted with a 6.6-liter V8. At the time, Coors was only available in the West as it was unpasteurized and couldn't be shipped cross-country. For those not old enough to remember switching cable channels on a box with a 30-foot cord tethered to the TV, "Smokey and the Bandit" is a 1977 film featuring an adventurous run across the American south by a couple of truckers trying to get a haul of Coors beer to Atlanta to collect $40,000.
