40 YEARS LATER: Original 'Smokey and The Bandit' License Plate
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- The ULTIMATE addition to my man cave - one of the ORIGINAL license plates from Smokey and The Bandit! GYSOT
In this video, we take a look at the original Smokey and The Bandit License Plate. Almost 40 years since the movie's release, this iconic plate is still going strong!
Smokey and The Bandit is one of those movies that everyone knows and loves. It's hard to believe that it's been around for almost four decades and this license plate is still going strong!
Lol, Richard was opening them up like a kid on Christmas morning ripping through meticulously wrapped presents
We've only ever seen him open a case of Miller like that before 🤣
@@GasMonkeyGarage I love the Fast & Loud show, and I’m sad to hear it’s not going on any longer, but all good things must come to an end I guess.
I’m sure it could make a comeback though with all of these boring electric vehicles being all the talk (for now)
@@GasMonkeyGarage Richard is a great man I like what he does with the cars he buys
I swear, just before I clicked on the comments. I was thinking... looks like a kid in a candy store! Now that's funny!
If you like Burt Reynolds I got his autograph and picture it's the real deal
my brother and I rebuilt all of Burt Reynolds carburetors on all of his carburetored vehicles he had a Smokey and the Bandit stadium stunt show towards the end of his life. RIP BURT.
awesome!
Proof ??
That’s pretty cool
@@iwin1833Yeah for real that's a insanely massive claim.... I'm calling bs
That's cool
And the shipper couldn't use a box to ship this priceless plates
Thank goodness it wasn't fedex
That was my thought as well...must have said "Do not bend" somewhere.
@@scottwright388 Never write that on a package or they will bend the hell out of it just like the words "glass" or "fragile" will get it drop-kicked onto the truck!
Was checking for this comment Joe. I was saying same thing. Box is like $1.00
No worries UPS delivered
I say with zero sarcasm that "Smokey and the Bandit" is one of the best comedy films of all time. An absolute gem.
It’s racist!
@@yodead369go away
@@yodead369did you really say it's racist? Do you need a tampon? It seems those constantly screaming about racism are almost always the racists. A white guy walking through a black neighborhood will hear 100 times the racist shite any black man walking through a white neighborhood ever will in current times. Difference is the white guy won't whine about it for the rest of his life. I hear it everyday and I find it amusing because I don't give AF. Try it sometime
@@yodead369 shut up
@@yodead369but everything is racist. So it's ok.😊.
Dude that’s frikken awesome!
RIP Burt, we love ya Smokey and let’s not forget the snowman and Fred!
You might want to edit this. Snot man.
& frog
And Buford T Justice Jackie Gleason , who in my opinion MADE that movie what it was. Besides the car chase scenes.
Bandit is crazy as Fred is ugly .
Breaker breaker...
I was a very young truck driver when that movie was released. Still my favorite truckin movie.
Ok, now that’s freaking cool as shit buddy!!!
Awesome find for sure.
To who is this an awesome find
Don't make you jump higher run faster or shit harder what's the real value stack it up next to a dollar bill I'm taking the dollar anyway
@@armyfreak1367 says the one commenting from their parents basement due to lack of funds to purchase a home or cool license plates.
You're also in lust...
Seek therapy
I lived in Palm Beach for a while and I delivered parts to Murphy's Towing and Autobody. The business that built and painted the Trans Am cars for the 1st and 2nd movies. They had a set of Ban One plates framed on their wall along with pictures of them building the movie cars.
Cool Name
Got to be quick and have a big bank account.
Yep, I college original signed concert posters. Im also broke lol.
😂, true…
Like big and little Enos Burdette. 😆
You all guy's know that Jimmie Dean's Porsche parts exists over 20 x...?
@@sstjacques big bank account while low balling the seller
Yep. My mother had lived right by where they filmed the old bridge scene. I was born in Savannah in 1972
I did, too. It was off of Flint River Road in Jonesboro GA
Pawn stars: I'm gonna call a buddy to make sure this checks out. The best I can do is $30 and a pack of gum.... that's taking a huge risk. 😁
Plus there are not many people out there. This is going to sit for a while .
Plus its going to take up alot of real estate in the shop
I can't fcking stand pawn stars, their "experts" are all morons. Still can't get over the one that said a signed guitar couldn't possibly belong to Jimi Hendrix cause it was a right handed guitar and he was left handed, like dude everybody knows he played an upside down right handed guitar. How in the fck are you gonna be an "expert" and not know that?
Unless I’m mistaken, that is not a valid state license plate because the letters were not stamped into the plate metal!
The back of the plate was smooth and the face of the plate was smooth!
Unless Georgia had smooth faced plates in 1976 that plate is not a real plate!
It may be a real Smokey And The Bandit plate made by the art department for the movie, but it is very doubtful that it bears any registration in the state of Georgia!
@@AzzKicker-bz1cb yes, if it was made by the art department its not a valid state tag. We get legit tags from the dmv not Hollywood movie art departments. No one thought it was a real tag.
Good ole Richard Rawlings STILL at it all these years later. I love seeing a guy who's still pumped about automotive history all these years later and STILL pumping out awesome cars.
Damn that packaging is no joke
Was wrapped damn near 40 years ago😂
@@xezon8042 I doubt it, it has been siiting around that long but likely packaged right before shipping.
@@phillhuddleston9445Hello, joke here. Is anyone home in that space between your ears?
1000
Utility knife ??
RIP Jerry Reed the worlds most underrated and underappreciated guitarist!!!
Richard's a trip, he knows his business, having fun showing off 👍👍👍
That's a super cool find for sure
Amazing how many people still remember smokey and the bandit. We grew up driving TA's. Fun cars the early cars.
Damn watchin richard that old makes me feel old i still remember his shows from this little garage. God bless him ❤
Agreed couldn't believe how old he got I watched his show all the time the grandpa glasses didn't help him either Father time waits for no one !
Have you seen Aron lately???
@@jcanfixall1585 not really
@@felixguzmanmartinez last time I saw him was on UA-cam or something a while ago, but he looks really old...
One of my favorite movies growing up.
Back in the day you had to wait till they played it again on TV
Rich got the license plates and some weird Pharoah bracelets apparently
Holy shit man I just posted about the same thing before I seen you post great minds and all I guess bahahahaha.....
Those BRACELETS are his wife's .
Haha. I was thinking same idea .😅
Think they’re a high end fashion bracelet from Cartier or Bvlgari or something not completely sure but they’re very common among people of means.
I think he needs few more
Congratulations on the come up Richard!! It's always good to see you!! Hope you're doing well. Hope you had a blast in Sturgis!! Much love and support from New Mexico!! Have a nice day!!
He just couldn’t wait to get that package open it was killing him I love it haha .
Burt and Dolly came by our shop filming their last movie in Douglasville Ga... douglasville pd came through giving them their traffic assistance. Few seconds of notoriety and they were gone
😢🎉
This is great it makes me remember when Burt gave Richard the smokey and the bandit original hat used on the set Richard looked like he was 5 and had opened the present hes been wanting all year.
They're called
the Trans Am SE Bandit Edition
for anyone who's interested. ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH THESE!!! But my favorite are the two with Reynolds signature and even met me gave me some personal memorabilia from 1977 which is the year I was born.
Father of one of my team members paid for the donor cars and all the work. His son was a ABSOLUTE UNIT of a Devil Dog.
I hope that you and those you care for are happy, healthy, and safe. Semper Fidelis P.S I apologize for any words that are out of context or poor punctuation and misspellings. I lost my hand in Afghanistan so now I dictate rather than type and the program is not perfect.
That's really cool I have a 1/18 scale Bandit trans am signed by Burt Reynolds !!!
Lucky!
Holy crap, I didn’t realize that was Richard Rawlings till I seen the Gas Monkey signs. Glad to see Richard is doing great.👍
Born in Lansing, Michigan. He would come to town to see family and drive by his boyhood home on Leasia Street. His family moved him I believe when he was maybe 10 or 12 years old. Steven Segal, same story. True story. I was born in the same hospital as those fellas.
Pretty damn kool too
NIIIICE.. TY FOR SHARING...MY FATHER TOLD ME I AM DECENDANCE OF DANIEL BOONE...5 HOUSES AND THROUGH MARRIAGE...I GUESS ITS TRUE...🕯🙋🕊👈❤
I think, Burt was 5, when they moved to Florida. They stopped to stay overnight in Waycross, GA just short of the Florda line. Waycross stuck in his mind for whatever reason, & he told people, that he was from Wacross, Georgia for most of his life, & it became part of his official biography for most of his life. Late in life, he admitted, that he was from Michigan, & as a kid, he said he was from Waycross, GA to fit in as a Southerner. From then, he at least allowed people to think; he was from Georgia.
Maybe it worked out for him? The movies that made him a huge star, were set in the South, & casting directors might not have cast him in those roles, if they saw he was from Michigan?
I just watched Smokey and the bandit like 4 dozen times plus and this by far the coolest thing ever.
That’s freaking awesome!! You gotta put those in a frame with UV protection glass.
Sooo cool.
You mean the bracelets or that license plate???
Jerey Reed's house was my mom's Aunt's house. The girl on the bike was my cousin. They had Three Bandit T/A's....Two drivers, and one on a trailer. It was a GREAT time to be alive in Ga. 👍✌👍
Definitely cool stuff.
In 2015 had BBQ and a few drinks at the Gas Monkey. Was in Texas for work all three of us were fans.
Burt Reynolds was a legend can’t believe he’s gone!!!!
I can't believe he lasted as long as he did! (!!!!!)
Jackie Gleeson was absolutely the right guy for the sheriff. Classic
The scenics and art department are super talented. I love watching them create props and set pieces.
Their fake there is writing under bandit in the show this one has a line fake
I’m late 30s and watching this is making me feel old.
That with one from the General Lee . Displayed on the wall . That's serious man art right there .
Grate finde, I remember when you went to his home in Jupiter Island ,Tequesta off A1A and County Line Road area he had that place on
Intracoastal, remember how he came out to greet you at the front gate 😅! That was really cool time!
The original transam came from Foster Pontiac in Milwaukee WI.
They had it in their showroom for many years.
Now in the Tallahassee Auto Museum.
I knew someone that had California Bandit 2 plates. He died and I tried to get first shot at them but family and friends I believe made them disappear. I would show a picture but I can't post one. Glad you got the real deal.
Never seen anyone have such difficulty opening an envelope before 🤣🤣😂😂
Utility knife??
My OCD was kicking in, lol
Just open the Fuc@ing thing
!!!!!!!
Been watching your show as soon as it came to available to uk, I’ve watched you grow sir, up most respect and I hope I get the chance to fly over one day and jam out. God bless from uk.
Mounted next to the Trans Am hood in your Burt / Bandit room gunna look great
That was the year I was born and my birthday. Now I know why I loved this movie so much! And a car guy big time.
Somebody get this man a Benchmade
or better...
What's better than Benchmade besides Spyderco??
I'm sure he could afford his own knife. You can always sell one to him. Just tell it used to be Burt's edc knife...screen used too!
I just saw yesterday that peaked my interest and will probably yours too. There’s a guy in my small town that has what looks to be a Smokey and the Bandit TA in his garage. Idk the dude because he just recently moved to town but I was driving by headed to the Mississippi with the boat and saw it. Wife couldn’t care less but I’m going to try and meet this guy and talk to him. It looked to be in pristine condition! ❤
Johnny Depp wants his bracelets back
Damn i gotta use that one
He’s such a tool
Hows about this one? Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?
@@1bcordell Steven Tyler is claiming cultural appropriation on this man
He won them from the Carnival.
This put a huge smile upon my face nostalgia overload 😊 awesome find Richard 👍😎
It would not surprise me if you found out you are a distant relative of Burt Reynolds. You have a lot of his characteristics. Congratulations on the cool plates.
both from florida too.
@@drinkingpoolwater Don't put that on Richard, he's from Texas 🤣
@@GasMonkeyGarage shoot i thought he was from florida originally.
All gear heads are related to burt Reynolds.
And from Jupiter fla huh
Me Too I’m a huge fan Richard. I got to meet Jerry Reed after a concert what a great guy. I always wanted to meet Burt I’m glad you got to.
Burt Reynolds was my Hero. Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s He was a good male role model for all of us that are Gen X.
Or Jim Rockford...
Oh my generation Z are spoiled rotten brats I wish I was born in the 80's not 2000's
Go little Richy. You've been a good boy this year. Look what Santa got ya
Let's just forget that when The Bandit was offered a challenge to bring Coors to Georgia that he somehow went out and bought a new car and got custom plates on the weekend.
Oh man. I just watched Deliverance for the first time ever about a month ago. What a great movie that was!
Squeal 🐷
The seven space plate "number" on a seventies license plate from Georgia was a dead giveaway that they weren't real. Only 6 characters, including spaces were used.
Hey, Richard... I only live about 3 minutes in a straight line up hwy 81 from *"Tara,"* Burt's big mansion he built by Loganville, GA. just north of Conyers that Jerry Reed mentions in the movie when hes going to go for a load of manure. 😊 I'll take a nice picture of the gate with the house in the background and sell it to you... Cheap! 😊😊
That is one of mine & my hubs fav movies! No telling how many times we’ve watched it over the years! I would love to surprise my husband with something like that. There is no telling what he paid for it. I’m sure it’s way outta my price range. But man just to have something from that movie is so cool! Loved Burt!
I remember plates in the 70s both typical and personalized being pressed raised not flat printed.
He said the art department made the plates for the movie that they weren’t real plates
If the art department made the originals, it would be incredibly easy for somebody to make fake plates today and sell them as if they are "originals" for big $$$. After all, no need for raised lettering. Just get some steel, paint it, leave it outside in the rain a few days, put a masking tape sticker on it with some sort of labels, and voila! big profits. And who can prove they're real or fake, either?
U can just about fake anything these days
Ran that piece of Hwy 75 in the Georgia mountains to go paragliding a couple times a month where they filmed the scenes of splashing through the river and where the old guy on the porch says, “ he drives pretty good, don’t he?” The buildings in that shot, including the porch, are still there and look essentially the same😎
Proceeds to say set, then pulls out a single plate 🤣🤣
Can you imagine the UPS driver running across the street drops envelope right as a Semi comes by running over said Envelope? 🤔🤔 Use a box!! 😂🤣😂
@@ScaredShiftless91 if only😂
@@ScaredShiftless91 Because a cardboard box would definitely go unscathed under the weight of a Semi-tractor trailer.
@@marktgreen1759 That ain't no bull shit. 😅🤣😂
Nice job Richard! Completes your collection.👍😎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸⚓💯
I’m just as excited and it doesn’t even belong to me😂
Burt Reynolds signed the dashboard of my "trans am"
2015 chevy camaro with professional makeover t tops and the wheels look like those original ones. Of course the paint and body work looks like the trans am updated. I absolutely LOVE this thing. I got 2 black a white and a blue one as well as red.😂
The movie Hammock sold a while ago. The plate is too cool.
Dan you rock, I love your show. This is Mindy , Tracy Speegle's cousin in law. Remember that little ceasers pizza I ate the whole thing all on my own lol Thanks for being so kind! :)
Did it come with a certificate of authenticity?
Doubt it and by how flimsy it was packaged I highly doubt that it is authentic.
FSU alumni here, we play Eastbound and Down at every home game. Burt was a Seminole! F-L-O-R-I-D-A-S-T-A-T-E FLORIDA STATE FLORIDA STATE FLORIDA STATE WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
Sell those plates to the original Bandit car owner today...MATCH!
The cars are in the Tallahassee Auto Museum.
Hell yeah. Great find Richard. Miss watching the GMG show.
Run Bandit Run !!
Couldn't stand you on the show but respect you as an individual 👍
I worked on and built one of those cars.
An 1981 trans am , with a 700 hp 396, art carr turbo 400, 4 wheel disc.
What a beast.
Work done for the stunt man who bought one of the cars. He painted it red, stupid move.
That was the thing, replacement of the Poncho mill for a big block Chevy....I had a junkyard 78 with a 400..Dad told me to pull the thermostat because Pontiacs ran hot too much...I drag raced it at Maple Grove Raceway..turned the oil into milkshake..lol...
@@stephentaylor5337 that's what happens when 🤔 its just not known what to do. I can't imagine you actually won any races against a real proformence machine, though accidents do happen.
Ok.ok. I'm just funning with you. They all have some potential. Yeah, there was a heating issue for a moment, but, after doing the right thing, it never occurred again, and I would race that car around all day long with great milage and wheel stands in 2nd gear.
👁❤Big blocks 🤔👍.
Wow. Great find. Now that’s a keeper. Long live the Bandit!!
One of the best movies ever
One of my all time favorite movies! Great find!!!
Yeah you did good brother id definitely charish it
A favorite movie of mine. I was 16 when Smokey and The Bandit came out.
Five minutes of trying to open a package. And 10 seconds of looking at a license plate. Like the bottles of tequila with the shot glasses on the desk.
Guy did a hell of a job wrappin them....👍
thats a big 10 4 bandit .. my favorite movie of all time
No matter how many cool things you buy with all your loot Richard, you will never be as cool as the Bandit.
The best dialogue from that movie was when she was driving the car in a high speed chase and Burt was actually riding shotgun and she yelled it backwards "I've got the metal to the pedal and the thing to the floor"!!!!!
WOW! Now that’s a really cool conversation piece to have. That’s one of my favorite movies and they just don’t make’em like that anymore..Good Find!!
Nice to see you again, Richard. Keep it up with blood, sweat and beards
That was the best movie ever made. Can watch it over and over even though you know most of the scenes.
Cool beans! I was there when they filmed Smokey & the Bandit 😊. I was there when they (Burt & Sally) jumped the bridge on the Flint River in Clayton County. I watched Fred go into the pond 😂. Good Times!
Bandit - "you chasing a bank robber?"
Buford Justice - "DIS DUDE AIN'T NO BANK ROBBER, HE IS WORSE"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Just one of many used as a prop. A nice trinket
It's well known the movie was filmed in 1976. So if you are looking for a CB radio for your Bandit Trans Am, you will need a Pace CB-166, the 23 channel version and NOT the 40 channel version
The BADIT with that corvette was a different beast especially with that tagg
Love this one thank you for sharing this with everyone
This is cool. I have one of the plates from Smokey and the Bandit 2. It is a hand-painted Quebec plate off one of the RCMP cars. Some of the cars were junked in Vegas after filming. I was in the USAF and stationed at Nellis. I have pictures of some of the cars but not the one I got the plate off
At first I thought even Richard isn’t immune to buying junk. Then realized oh ya this is actually very cool and not just some replica
WOW Richard what a great find. I’m so jealous.
that is so awesome the original plate was found and shown!!😮💗🤠👍
Those are so awesome they're going to look so good back on the bandit car
Watching you try to open that made me crazy holy shit man you rebuild cars for a living and a envelope kicked the shit out of you
Man Richard. Love you guys bradda. Was that young kid brought up on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i? Watchung your show from a young age til this day. Thank you for all the sharing now I'm in my lower 30s. Keep on doing what you do and for the people. Mahalo nui loa 💪🏽
EXTREMELY LUCKY that it didn't get destroyed in shipping!
have to say that's cool to have as a wall hanger, put it with the rest of your Burt Reynolds collection. If you weren't a kid when Smoky and the Bandit came out you wont under stand. The movie "THE CAR" was a good one two, Dam Nation Ally, a lot of those movie's that came out at that time helped pay for "STAR WARS" that pretty much change everything how movie's were going to be made.
that's a Holy grail stuff for R.R!!!... GYSOT!!!💥💥💥💪🏼👌🏼💯
The fact you got to meet Bert Reynolds before he passed on Fast and Loud is amazing. Bert was just an amazing actor. I just wish that he would have acknowledged and watched boogie nights to see the genious that movie was and how it was one of his Greatest roles (okay not greatest) but great!
He hated that he did that movie and saw it as a smut film and was pissed at his manager for getting him it. Even tho we won awards, he refused to ever see the film.
Now hes up there doing donuts and his signature laugh, hhhhaahhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaàaa
Cool love O Burt and Fast’en loud Richard films! You go buddy and Semper fi from Tennessee!!