Burt Reynolds’ old Pontiac Trans Am replica sold for $317,500

Following

Burt Reynolds’ passing

last September,

Julien’s Auctions

held an estate sale of the late actor’s property on June 15-16 in Beverly Hills, Calif. Hundreds of items were included in the

auction

, but none more valuable than the

Pontiac

Trans Am Bandit replica previously owned by Reynolds. It easily surpassed expectations when it sold for $317,500.

Julien’s, the self-proclaimed experts in contemporary and pop culture, listed

876 pieces

in the sale, from cowboy boots to a

driver’s license

to scripts. The online preview said it estimated a range of prices from $25 to $200,000. They were way off.

Item No. 716 was a replica of a Pontiac Trans Am Bandit that was seen in the original

“Smokey and the Bandit.”

Not the real car, just a re-creation. But its value comes more from who owned the ride rather than what the car was. The replica was owned by Reynolds for some years, and now that he’s passed, it’s coveted even more.

It’s not the only Trans Am item that sold at auction. Three Reynolds Trans Am model cars sold for $

640

, $576 and $512. A Reynolds-signed “Bandit” poster sold for $3,200. A Reynolds-signed poster from the Trans Am plant sold for $1,562.50, a Reynolds custom-built Trans Am office desk sold for $4,375, and a “

Smokey and the Bandit”

decorative etched glass panel sold for $896.

This isn’t the first time a Bandit replica has sold for big money. In 2016, a promotional Trans Am sold at a

Barrett-Jackson

auction for

$550,000

. We also believe the exact car sold in this Julien’s auction was previously bought at a

Barrett-Jackson auction

in 2018 for

$192,500

. If that’s the case, somebody just made an extremely easy profit.