Oh, you didn’t seriously think the Warmack brothers would revive the Super Duty, and forget about the very car that fed the Trans Am craze that swept America in the summer of 1977, did you?
As seen above, TAW also made a “Bandit” version of the 455 Super Duty (not to be confused with their Trans Am SE “Bandit Edition”that even Reynolds can’t help but gawk at down below).
Nonetheless, Smokey and the Bandit and the Trans Am still influences muscle car enthusiasts to this day.
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