Monday 4th April
Burt Reynolds and the new Trans Am: Time for Tea?
There's a new Trans Am now out there, but an old favourite tasked with selling it
But let's look at some of the stuff Burt did take on. He posed nude for a Cosmopolitan centre spread. He tackled the artistically challenging role of Boss Hogg in the 2005 big-screen version of The Dukes Of Hazzard. Most gloriously of all, he totally nailed the title role of The Bandit in Smokey And The Bandit.
Nearly forty years after SATB invested Pontiac's Trans Am with legendary status, a limited edition Camaro-based Bandit Trans Am has been created by the Tallahassee tuning shop Trans Am Depot - and Burt has signed up to it. Quite literally: his signature appears on all 77 of these Trans Am SE Bandit Editions, and he's joined in on the video of it to boot.
Burt starts the vid with a rueful chuckle and a strong contender for one of the understatements of the century. Details on the actual car are as thin as Burt's real hair but there's a claim of 840hp in there, and Burt doesn't say it isn't, so that's good enough for us. Certainly, with a supercharged 7.4-litre LSX under that screaming chicken on the shaker scoop, it's believable. Prices start at $115,000.
BR is 80 now, and looking a little frail. After a life well lived, his bayou-jumping days are over. But looking at all the evidence objectively, any right thinking person must surely come to the conclusion that Burt Reynolds is one of the greatest human beings ever to walk the planet.
See the video here .