Burt Reynolds Smokey Car Fetches $450,000 At Auction

A black Pontiac Trans Am owned by Burt Reynolds and used in his hit comedy Smokey And The Bandit sold for $450K at Julien’s Auctions in Las Vegas last week.

Other star items auctioned at the event included a canoe from 1972 thriller Deliverance, which sold for $17,500, the actor’s jacket from Smokey and the Bandit, which fetched more than $34,000 , and his Top Box Office Star of the Year award, which attracted a winning bid of $5,312.

Here is a screenshot of the auction results from the Julien Auctions website.

Burt Reynolds, best known as a leading film star, has had a storied career both on the big and small screens. Aside from his award winning portrayals of some of the world’s most iconic characters in film and television, Reynolds is also a businessman who has owned a football team, a dinner theatre, a working ranch and even a museum.

His brilliant acting career spans over six decades beginning with his breakout role on the hit 1960’s CBS-TV show “Gunsmoke” and including his leading roles in the films “The Longest Yard,” “Smokey and the Bandit,” “Stroke Ace,” “Boogie Nights,” “Striptease” and who can forget, “Deliverance.”

His television roles have also earned him accolades, including “B.L. Stryker” and “Evening Shade.” During the 1970s and 1980s, Reynolds was the ultimate movie star sex symbol with his outrageous good looks, enigmatic charm, dramatic roles and his memorable photo as Cosmopolitan Magazine’s first nude male centerfold. He was also a regular on the talk show circuit.

Reynolds’ major breakthrough film role was in the 1972 film “Deliverance” which established him as both a star and a serious actor. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s Reynolds remained one of Hollywood’s most sought-after superstars and to this day is revered and honored amongst his peers. Other memorable films starring Burt Reynolds included “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and “Starting Over.” He also won an Emmy Award in 1991 and a Golden Globe in 1992 for the popular television sitcom “Evening Shade” in which he starred.

In the mid-1990s his role as a shady congressman in the film “Striptease” earned him widespread notice within the industry. The following year he was cast in “Boogie Nights,” for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award. He also starred in “Mystery, Alaska” in 1999. In 2001, Reynolds starred in the thriller “Tempted” and in the charming love story “Snapshots” in 2002. He continues to act in feature films to this day such as the touching family story “Hamlet and Hutch” and the hurricane-themed movie “Category 5”recently filmed in Mississippi.