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The recent death of Hollywood legend and automotive enthusiast
helped drive up the value of
four of his former cars from the 1970s and ’80s
, which sold last weekend at
‘s Las Vegas
for a combined $379,500.
Reynolds, who
, had offered three
— two of them re-creations of the cars he drove in “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Hooper” and the third from 1984 used to promote his United States Football League team, the Tampa Bay Bandits. The fourth was a 1978
R30 pickup truck, styled like the one featured in “Cannonball Run.”
The “Bandit” re-creation, a 1978
Trans Am that Reynolds ordered to be as “movie-correct” as possible but featuring a custom-built 200-4R automatic transmission, sold for $192,500. The car features a freshly built
400 cubic-inch V8 mated to a four-speed automatic and featuring all-new Butler Performance parts and air-conditioning components. Reynolds reportedly said this was his favorite car from his films, and it even came with an authentic movie-correct CB radio and CB antenna.
The red retro-rocket “Hooper” ’78
, with a 403 cubic-inch V8 and a three-speed automatic, hammered for $88,000.
By comparison, a gold 1978 Trans Am also offered at the Las Vegas auction but not connected to Reynolds fetched $27,500.
The 1987
R30 pickup was a re-creation of the Indy Hauler pace truck seen jumping over a moving freight train in “Cannonball Run.” It hammered for $49,500.
The fourth car never appeared in any of Reynolds’ films but is instead the only surviving example of two Trans Ams used to promote the Tampa Bay Bandits of the now-defunct USFL, having been driven out onto the field by Reynolds and his late friend and co-star, Jerry Reed, during opening day one season. It also sold for $49,500.
At the
Scottsdale Auction in 2016, Reynolds accompanied a 1977 Trans Am used to promote “Bandit” onto the auction block. That car sold for a world-record $550,000.
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