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[Bandit]

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Bandit, are those all yours? I'd like to see your storage facility!

-Dan

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They were at one time or another. I buy/restore/sell them, I am a very small dealer here in Michigan. I stick to what I personally like to drive. I have had a love affair with cars from Hotwheels to the present. It was a life changing event at 11 years old (my wife thinks I am crazy when I say this) when I saw Smokey and the Bandit and Burt drove the 1977 Special Edition Trans Am out of the semi truck back. Thats THE day I was hooked on Trans Ams. Now I am restoring a 77 SE TA for myself. Believe it or not, I really get attached to these, some more than others. I need to hang to one for me personally. This one was delivered on my 11th birthday the actual day I saw the movie. This one will look 100% stock in the engine bay but have well over double the horsepower of a factory engine and over 500 lbs of torque.

I also used to do alot of photography when I was growing up with my Dad. Combine the love of cars and the photos, its a perfect combination for me.

Here is "my" car that I am in the middle of restoring now.

[Bandit]

[HPMIKE]

My 2800 mile 71 Hemi Challenger.

Is there an easy way to get the pic to show up in the body of the post??

[Johnny Horsepower]

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70 RA IV Judge the actual Two Lane Black Top Car pic taken
in spring 1989


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Hi Bruce, not trying to upset any apple carts, but I am curious about your car. I am a big GTO fan and a Two lane Blacktop fan. (I love orbit orange judges and your car looks sweet!) However, I was always under the impression that the GTO, at least for the exterior shots, was a non judge 455. In the movie, he describes during one of his multiple BS backstory rants to a guy, as a 455 Mark IV ram air. He then gives stats that are incorrect for any factory 70 GTO. He quotes 390hp and 500 lb-ft. In every shot of that car in the movie and on various packaging, the Judge emblems are nowhere to be found. Only a GTO logo resides behind the front wheel where the judge should be.
I was told there were 2 cars and they were both 455s.
After seeing your post I checked around the net a bit (not that it's the end all be all) and found the car listed in the Internet car movie database. The info there supported what I had always heard and thought from multiple viewings.

From the site;

":NOT a Judge, but a standard GTO 455, painted Orbit Orange, with the "Rally II" stripes and spoiler optioned in (these items were standard on the Judge, optional on regular GTOs). Note that there are no "The Judge" emblems behind the front wheels.

This car was owned by Universal Studios for a long time, and used in many movies and TV shows ("Baretta" immediately springs to mind...some thugs to run over Robert Blake with it in the first episode and crash through a fence...this scene is shown in the opening credits for the rest of the series' run).

Apparently they finally sold the car in 1988 to an individual and that's the last anyone has heard of it."
(is this you? )

So where did you aquire it, and what kind of supporting docs did you get that told you this was that car?
Is your car a 455? I see that it now sports the judge emblem on the fenders? I would love to know all the stories behind this car. One of the best looking cars ever, in my opinion.
Thanks !!

John

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If you want to read a great thread, Bruce thoughtfully took my side question to PMs and then turned me on to a thread about this car ona site that I frequent.
Thanks again Bruce.

Here is the thread

http://forums.performanceyears.com/f...d.php?t=556252

Enjoy

[Dog427435]

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My 2800 mile 71 Hemi Challenger.

Is there an easy way to get the pic to show up in the body of the post??

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