Burt Reynolds’ 1977 Pontiac Trans Am Fetches $172K At Auction
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Burt Reynolds passed away in September of 2018, leaving behind an impressive resume filled to bursting with box office hits. However, car enthusiasts no doubt recognize Reynolds from his starring role in Smokey and the Bandit, where he played the lovable outlaw Bo Darville, a bootlegger who distracts police in a Pontiac Trans Am. Reynolds owned several Bandit-style Pontiac Trans Ams after filming wrapped, one of which just sold at auction for $172,000.
Just like in the movie, this 1977 Pontiac Trans Am gets a black on black color scheme, and comes equipped with the Y82 Special Edition Package. The coupe is equipped with a Hurst T-top roof and unique graphics with a giant Phoenix on the hood. The corners mount 15-inch gold Snowflake alloy wheels with red bird-emblem center caps, and are wrapped in 235/60R15 Cooper Cobra Radial G/T tires.
According to the seller, the body was finished by Murphy’s Body and Paint of West Palm Beach, Florida, and was refurbished for cosmetic purposes while owned by Reynolds with a repaint and “Bandit” graphic for the driver’s door. Reynolds also signed the hood and dashboard prior to the car being sold in 2015.
Making the go is a 6.6L V8 engine topped by a four-barrel carb, with output rated at 200 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque. The ‘eight connects to a three-speed Turbo-Hydramatic automatic transmission.
The black interior was refurbished with new seat covers, new carpeting, and new door panels, while the dash sports a gold gauge pod surround. There’s also a leather-wrapped steering wheel with gold spokes, offered as part of the Y82 Special Edition package.
This 1977 Pontiac Trans Am has 90,000 miles shown, and the auction included a host of memorabilia, including a signed hat and jacket, as well as photo documentation of the hood and dash signatures. The auction also included a copy of the dealer invoice, and a clean Florida title in Burt Reynold’s name.
All told, Reynolds’ 1977 Trans Am sold for $172,000 earlier this week. For any Smokey and the Bandit fan, this is undoubtedly one of the ultimate acquisitions.
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Rest In Peace, Burt, Pontiac, Firebird, and the Trans Am. They’re all gone now.
The Bandit movies are fun to watch.
Burt owned more 1977 Trans Ams than anyone I ever knew.
The last 10 years so many were restored and put in Burts name to resell.
The truth is none of the movie cars survived and Burt Did personally own and drive one but it has been in a personal collection for a long time.
Bandit was and always will be a classic. I just pray they never do a remake as they captured fire in a bottle that seldom gets caught. There is no way a remake would ever be worth the effort.
Gleason stole the show with the Adlibs and Burt was on his game. Hal was smart enough to just let the film roll.
Frog, little Ennius and Jr are all that survive today. It is hard to believe it was that long ago,
The 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am features a 6.6L V8 engine topped by a four-barrel carb, with output rated at 200 horsepower; this tells you of how difficult it was to make horsepower in comparison, General Motors’ LWC 1.6L DOHC-4v 4-cyl turbo makes 200 horsepower and 206 lb.-ft for torque.
I saw this car on the HIstory channel’s Counting Cars as Burt Reynolds sent the car to be refurbished for this auction just before Burt Reynolds’ death.
Not the same car. The car on the counts show was a different and cleaner better restoration. They had it right down to the Goodyear tires.
There may be 10 or 15 Burt Trans Ams out there. Most were just cars put in his name and sold or sold for charity. He would sign them and get photo with them. Most were never even driven by him.
The Hooper TA was a reproduction as the real car did not survive. The Truck from Cannonball was just made to pull the trailer that hauled the two cars. It was a. He y not a GMC like the real truck from the movie.
Being into Pontiac as a hobby the history of the Bandit cars is often told and most of the magazines covered the cars as they were restored and sold for charity.
While it is true these cars were titled to Burt his history with many of them is limited.
When buying movie and tv or any celebrity car use caution as while what they claim may be true it may have limited truth to it.
We saw many Elvis Cadillacs sold. Msny were titles and then given as gifts. Elvis in many cases may never have seen the car.
As for power yeast it was difficult. Low compression and restrictive converters along with carbs that burned dirty all conspired for little excitement.
Better cats injection, higher compression and turbocharging today really has some up cars.
Many faile to realize most average cars have more power than many muscle cars had.
325 hp was big back then with a 396. That was also gross HP unlike todays net HP.
I want one of the acceleration / non-jumping stunt cars. The movie mechanics knocked the engine to over 400 hp to perform the high speed scenes.
I wanted one of these cars after going to the theater with my Dad in ’77 to see the original movie. It took my 20 years to finally get one, but I did it! I still have it now, 20 years later! I get comments all the time about “Smokey and the Bandit”¹. Sometimes I even have to prove that they didn’t have to do much to them to do the things in the movie. All I did to it was adding true dual exhaust and headers along with a Comp Cams cam to the Pontiac 400. All said and done, I’ve never been pulled over doing some of the dumb stuff I did. Listen to Sammy Hagar’s song “Trams Am”. It tells the T/A story!