He eventually received his car as a “thank you,” for the model’s popularity, but the actor put it up for auction in 2014, due to financial difficulties. After the movie came out, sales jumped from 68,745 units in the previous year to 93,341.īurt Reynolds also revealed that a senior executive at Pontiac had promised him to get the Trans Am for free if the movie became a hit, which it did. According to Director Hal Needham, they used three Trans Am examples for the movie, and it turned the model into a superstar.
Back then, it was the second highest-grossing movie after Star Wars: A New Hope. More than forty years later, the classic film is rated 7/10 on IMDB and has become a cult classic.īesides Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, and Jerry Reed, there was an unspoken unpaid character: the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am. The 1977 action-comedy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing and a Golden Globe for Sally Field as Best Actress.
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