Smoky and The Bandit is, without a doubt (no arguments accepted) one of the greatest if not the greatest "car" movies of all time.
Of course the fact that I owned a '73 Formula 400 Firebird, a 1976 50Th Anniversary (Black/Gold) TransAm and and 1979 Black/Gold TransAm has nothing to do with my opinion on the matter nor does the fact that the movie might even have had a hand in my love for Basset Hounds!
How sad that Jackie Gleason and Jerry Reed have already left us.