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Directed by stuntman Hal Needham, whose 2011 memoir Stuntman! offers some glorious tales from the set, Smokey and the Bandit is the ultimate Reynolds charm vehicle. But it’s his scenery-chewing escapades in Smokey and the Bandit that made pre-teen boys in the Seventies and, via premium cable, the Eighties want to snub authority, drive fast and get the girl. Reynolds died Thursday at age 82, leaving behind a series of indelible performances, from the heroic Lewis in Deliverance to the Oscar-nominated turn as porn director Jack Horner in Boogie Nights. “It must be a bitch getting a Size 68 extra fat, and a 12 dwarf.”

“Oh, I love your suits,” Bandit replies, relishing one of a number of politically incorrect zingers he lets fly in the film. You know the one - the “I’m a confident S.O.B.” cackle that helped establish him as a hero to aspiring wiseasses everywhere. Reynolds, owning the moment, looks up from his slumber and offers that laugh. “Looks like a legend and an out-of-work bum look a lot alike, Daddy,” quips Paul Williams’ Little Enos Burdette to his father, Big Enos Burdette, who’s dressed in the same outlandish suit, ascot and cowboy hat as his diminutive offspring. Snowman briefly drives a 1982 Peterbilt, but mostly drives the Trans-Am.The first time we lay eyes on Burt Reynolds’ truck-driving legend Bo “Bandit” Darville in 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit, he’s sprawled out in a zebra-striped hammock, lazily napping when he should be hustling to make a buck by posing for pictures for a discounted 75 cents.

There is no Kenworth in Smokey and the Bandit, Part 3.

Two of them were 1974 models with silver emblems on their grills the third has a 1973 gold 50th anniversary emblem.

At least three trucks were used as Snowman's in Smokey and the Bandit.

After they opened the crate and discovered Charlotte the elephant inside, they hauled her on an open second trailer behind the first. They later used it when when the Burdettes hired them to transport a crate. Neither truck nor trailer appeared to suffer much damage despite numerous incidents.

Then they loaded the truck with four hundred cases of Coors beer and transported it back to the Burdettes in Atlanta. They drove from Atlanta to Texarkana, Texas, fairly uneventfully.

When Bandit made a bet with Big Enos Burdette, he let Snowman drive the truck, while he drove blocker in the Trans-Am.

Snowman and Bandit originally drove a 1974 Kenworth as a team. Snowman drove one in the 1977 feature film Smokey and the Bandit and its sequel, Smokey and the Bandit II. Kenworth is a make of medium and heavy-duty Class 8 trucks.