The Pick of the Day is a dead ringer for the coupe driven by Burt Reynolds in ‘Smokey and the Bandit,’ golden hood eagle, T-tops and all

Car was a ’76 model disguised with ’77 sheetmetal for a Pontiac sales brochure, and was supposed to have been destroyed

This is the 19th in a 30-day countdown to Barrett-Jackson’s annual Las Vegas collector car auction

The Pick of the Day is a standout collectible muscle car, a low-mileage original described as being in pristine condition

Pontiac Trans Am approaches its 50th anniversary

The Pick of the Day provides the answer with what seems to be a clean, all-original Pontiac

Michael Fux IROC Collection on the docket at Mecum’s Kissimmee auction

William Leland III, the great-great nephew of Cadillac founder Henry Leland, ordered this 1979 Trans Am in 1978 after his father agreed to co-sign for the loan.

Imagine buying a new muscle car – something iconic and inherently cool – only to hardly ever drive it and leave it largely untouched.

When stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham was planning the film Smokey and the Bandit, he envisioned a low-budget B movie with a production cost of $1 million.