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VIDEO: Year One Bandit T/A in action! - UPDATED with latest version
UPDATE: Our friends at Year One graciously hooked us up with the latest version of this video - embedded after the jump.
"Bandit you're reckless and you live much too hard..."
We feel a full-fledged late 1970s lovefest coming on soon. Not that it'd be any worse than the resurgence of 1980s pop culture among those that didn't live it. Let's just say it was bad the first time, and hasn't improved with age. One thing that is better this time around are the Bandit T/A recreations from Year One. We reported on these a while back, and since we're all hot for the darn thing, here's some more eye candy. Looks like Sheriff Buford T. Justice finally has his day in the sun at the end of this short promo video, which we've embedded after the jump.
[Source: Year One]
"Bandit you're reckless and you live much too hard..."
We feel a full-fledged late 1970s lovefest coming on soon. Not that it'd be any worse than the resurgence of 1980s pop culture among those that didn't live it. Let's just say it was bad the first time, and hasn't improved with age. One thing that is better this time around are the Bandit T/A recreations from Year One. We reported on these a while back, and since we're all hot for the darn thing, here's some more eye candy. Looks like Sheriff Buford T. Justice finally has his day in the sun at the end of this short promo video, which we've embedded after the jump.
[Source: Year One]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tyo 9:42AM (5/03/2007)
I want one more than i could ever want some new camaro or challenger.
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Uncle Bob 10:41AM (5/03/2007)
This may boost the value of my 77 Formula 400.
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Mattlach 11:26AM (5/03/2007)
I beg to differ.
In my humble opinion the 80s produced some of the best music ever made, superceding what was composed in prior decades. You have to go back to classical music to find anything better. Since the end of the 80s music has just barrelled downhill.
On the flip side, no decade produced more horrible vehicles than the 70s. Aesthetically displeasing, handling like bricks with bigh thirsty (and stinky) V8's.
In fact, IMHO the 70s have no redeeming qualities. Lets please - for the love of God - try not to relive them!
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Dan Roth 11:45AM (5/03/2007)
I cannot agree with you about the music of the 1980s. The decade that gave us MIDI, the explosion of hair metal (though that had its infancy in the late 70s), lots and lots of synth pop, MTV, etc. The 80s _sucked_, heck, even the early 90s were pretty devoid of anything culturally redeeming. Although, it'd be a good time to do donuts with the TA while blasting Appetite for Destruction...
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Russ 11:47AM (5/03/2007)
Best line from maybe any movie was in Smokey:
'There's no way, *no* way that you came from *my* loins. Soon as I get home, first thing I'm gonna do is punch yo mamma in da mouth!' --Buford T. Justice
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Mattlach 1:05PM (5/03/2007)
#4
I forgot about hairmetal...
If I hear "Sweet Child of Mine" one more time I might just intentionally puncture my ear drums.
That being said, Synthpop is gods gift to the world of music, and still pretty much the only music I listen to.
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Gyp Joe 1:07PM (5/03/2007)
Sweet!
To bad nobody that comments on Autoblog was born in the 70's and realizes that manufacturers haven't innovated since the 50's...
Detroit steel baby - OHHHHHHYAAAAA...
(drool)
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Jason 1:34PM (5/03/2007)
60's = best decade for cars, at least for muscle cars.
80's = best decade for modern music, whether you like the hairmetal and power balads (Sweet Child o' Mine is my favorite song on Guitar Hero II), good old school hiphop, or the synthpop stuff... it's all good!
The 70's did have some redeeming qualities though... it's the decade my generation was born in (heh) and it gave us them Duke Boys and StarWars. The 80's should really just annex from about 1976 up into its decade, and we'll just cut out 1970-1975.
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Gooch 2:24PM (5/03/2007)
#4,
Maybe the music YOU listened to sucked, but the music I liked didn't. The 80s were incredible for me -- too bad if you didn't have a good time or make great memories.
The 70s were not as bad as people make it out to be either, but if you drove a 1970s car (except a 240Z or high-end German machine), yeah, you could pretty much say that decade sucked, automotive-wise.
I have to admit though, I thought the 77-79 Trans Ams were bad-ass. Hell I liked Trans Ams until they emasculated them in 1982.
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Dave 2:29PM (5/03/2007)
I loved my '77 FireChicken. But part of its charm was that it was so beat up that I didnt feel guilty driving it like I stole it.
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Steverino 3:10PM (5/03/2007)
Mmmm, I'm not much of a fan of classic or old cars. Unless I just want to look at them in a museum. But the Screaming Chicken is one of my few exceptions. Hope somebody takes one into the Bullrun or Gumball :]
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LiteWerk 8:33PM (5/03/2007)
Yeah, I take exception to any reference to the '80's music. Think back to ZZ Top, Van Halen, Quiet Riot, John Cougar Mellencamp, Whitesnake, Def Leppard, Bryan Adams, Huey Lewis and the News, and much, much more! 1980's music still rocks!
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Ben K. 11:00PM (5/03/2007)
GM is missing a grand opportunity here. Without a current Firebird offering these retro manufacturers are filling the void. A heritage version of the Firebird would be awesome General. Having owned five Firebirds, my 89 20th anniversary turbo T/A pace car was the ultimate. The GTO was a nice ride, just didn't resemble a GTO. Pontiac deserves another chance, can anybody say Zeta?
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iamhoff 4:26AM (5/04/2007)
70s cars in general, not so sweet. A properly restored and breathed on Bandit-generation F-body, way freaking sweet. And anybody who says the 80s sucked doesn't know what they're talking about. Think about it. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Ferris Bueller (and his dad's Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro), Pac Man, Donkey Kong, the proper rebirth of the Mustang GT 5.0, hair metal, new wave, Traci Lords, Rocky IV, Rambo, Knight Rider, the Buick GNX, I could go on and on. So don't hate on the 80s...there's too much that is worthwhile that happened.
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Gyp Joe 8:49AM (5/04/2007)
History Lesson:
The 73 & 74 SuperDuty T/A's are some of fastest production muscle-cars ever produced.
455CID with Pontiac factory racing parts sold at a dealer near you - rock solid block with ooodles of torque.
The the later t/a's only became part of pop-culture due to Burt's little film - yes they were enemic, but they would completely run circles around anything else available in the smog era.
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UNGERMAX 3:23PM (10/24/2007)
Speaking of this beast, i recently found a contest where you could win one of these. I think the DIY network is doing something with heavy.com. You have to post a video telling them why you should have this car...winner gets it.
i think it's: http://my.heavy.com/burtbuildsabandit
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