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In 2016, Reynolds spend several weeks filming the movie Apple of My Eye at Southeast Guide Dogs in Palmetto. Reynolds had a lifelong connection to Florida and visited the Sarasota and Manatee region many times in his later years through his connection to Kennedy.

I think that's what sparked that friendship.” Florida and the Bandit He could not believe somebody would take that time to help him. “I took like a 30-man team, and we did a one-day home makeover. Burt Reynolds stars as the high-flyin', wise-crackin' Bandit whose daring hijinx during an illegal cross-country beer run brings on the wrath of an inept Southern sheriff. “He had roofing issues, air conditioning issues, several things at his house in Jupiter,” Kennedy said. He was there for an autograph, but instead, he made a friend. In a December 1993 interview on the Des O'Connor Tonight talk show, Reynolds said Trans Am sales went up by 600% after the movie.Ī car buff himself, Kennedy – who owns the Kennedy Construction Group in Palmetto – met Reynolds in 2013 at a car show in Jupiter, where he learned that even the Bandit, who was then in his mid-70s, needed a helping hand at his home. This is, of course, 'Smokey and the Bandit,' the Burt Reynolds comedy about two truckers, Cledus 'Snowman' Snow and Bo 'Bandit' Darville, who make a bet that they can smuggle 400 cases of Coors beer from Arkansas to Georgia in 28 hours a feat that will require a lot of illegal driving in addition to the smuggling. Some of these cars have a lot of value.” Meeting Burt Reynolds It's unfortunate because some of those would be really iconic to be in a museum. so more often than not, Hollywood would destroy the car. “When Hollywood generally gets done with a movie, they will dispose of the cars for liability reasons.

#BURT REYNOLDS SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT PICS MOVIE#

“These movie cars get lost in history,” Kennedy said. Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham, and starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason. Kennedy also has the Blues Brothers 1974 Dodge Monaco, and recently finished a rebuild of Cousin Eddie's RV from Christmas Vacation. To the left, the last car Elvis Presley ever purchased, a white 1977 Lincoln Continental. Just beside the Trans Am in the car workshop filled with parts and tools sits one of the iconic General Lee cars from Dukes of Hazard, an orange 1969 Dodge Charger. Kennedy now has at least a dozen cars under his care that have been on-screen, owned by famous personalities, or are somewhere in the process of recreation.

That was the sale that sparked Bandit Movie Cars. That really started quite a few more things for us. “He absolutely got an injection of energy, I had never seen him quite like that after that moment. “It looked like Woodstock,” Kennedy said.

Burt reynolds smokey and the bandit pics