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1. Some pretty amazing driving.a classic.

2. Smokey and the bandit…. that brings back memories.
   Sigh. I was so much younger and the world seemed so much simpler and more promising.

3. Kudos to the stunt driver(s! Some great footage of decent moves considering that that genre of Detroit iron was suffocated by desmogging legislation. I’d love to be able to thrash my ’09 Subaru WRX STI like that but since it’s my only set of wheels, I must refrain (mostly). I do like that odd gravel road though.

4. I’ll see your Trans Am and raise you a Countach… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eU8j4MeJ4I

5. 73 trans-am 455 four speed close ratio positraction
   I miss it!!!

6. Ha I remember the 80’s. 300+ cu.in. and with all the emissions control devices you were lucky to get 140 hp out of em.
   Boy did they ever suck wind.

7. i want one. bad.

8. Burt Reynolds was purported to have done much of the stunt driving.

9. That was clearly not a stock T/A. Likely all smog stuff removed, possibly a smaller block Pontiac or (heresy) Chevy with 4 bbl and high perf headers cams etc. and lots of heavy suspension components.
   As daily drivers the big block T/As were miserable to drive -‘lousy handling rough-riding rattletraps with smog controls that killed power and drivability.

10. That was clearly not a stock T/A. Likely all smog stuff removed, possibly a smaller block Pontiac or (heresy) Chevy with 4 bbl and high perf headers cams etc. and lots of heavy suspension components.
    As daily drivers the big block T/As were miserable to drive -‘lousy handling rough-riding rattletraps with smog controls that killed power and drivability.

11. The Firebird was a favourite of the Hong Kong Uni boys. They loved it for the decal on top of the hood not for what was under the hood.

12. sigh,,,,
    Gas was $.67 / Gal in 1977
    Back then it was fun to pass everything on the road but a gas station.
    (I miss my friends 69 Mustang Mach 1 429 ram air,,,
    6 1/2 mpg hwy,, maybe 2 city doing burnouts at every light. It wasn’t the gas that got to him,,, it was the tickets.)

13. I had a Formula 400, blue block 4 speed…bagged the crap out of that thing until I wrapped it around a power pole…good/bad times…

14. syncro
    Never know which way those power poles will jump. Had a 383 Cuda , one got me too. Wasn’t Good Times/Bad Times, Rock n Roll, I think?

15. Imagine if they tried to make that movie now. The challenge would be to drive a solar-powered car as fast as possible, with Burt & Sally ahead in a Prius contacting eco-activists in advance so that they could block off intersections with a human chain while chanting BIG OIL SUCKS. Yeah, it would be a Michael Moore documentary.

16. Yep, that was a movie staple back in the day. I owned numerous muscle cars during that time, but never owned a T/A with the fire chicken on the hood. I was and still am a huge Pontiac fan, and more than likely the motor in that T/A was a 400 Pontiac, just massaged a little, like the one I had in a ’69 Firebird, that spun 450 HP on the dyno back in the day on pump gas.
    Now my Pontiac ride is an Australian import G8 GT, and it has all the excitement to drive of the old cars, plus it handles curves.

17. We still have the 69 SuperBee in the family that we purchased new in 69. A great vehicle for its time.

18. Pffft.
    We still drive like that in the boonies.

19. How about the 1969 Dodge Charger R/T 440 that the bad guys drove in that memorable Bullitt chase scene?!

20. Imagine, if you will, the newest remake complete with Chevy Volt being chased by a police Fisker… kind of like Easy Rider with Mopeds.

21. Fond memories of the heady days of sixties muscle cars. Owned and drove more than a few – most memorable – my 63 1/2 Galaxy XL 406, 64 Studebaker Daytona with Avanti V8, 66 Olds 442.
    Gasoline was cheap back in the day – $0.40 per gallon for premium.