We wandered outside yesterday for a smoke and heard something that sounded suspiciously like the steel guitar solo in Jerry Reed's "East Bound and Down." Then the chorus kicked in and we got all kinds of happy. Afterward, an instrumental fiddle piece from the score was played, apparently by a live band somewhere off across the parking lot. By this point we were positively giddy and accosted a stranger, saying, "They're playing the Smokey and the Bandit score!" He gave us a bemused look and walked on. Today as we were walking through the resto-parts section of SEMA, we happened upon this 403-powered Bandit with all original sheetmetal and were overcome with jealousy. We will have a '77 Pontiac F-Body, kids. Just you wait and see. The Jalopnik Texarkana/Atlanta run is just around the corner...

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