@mofimadness, "My first sports car that I ever owned was the Smokey and the Bandit
Trans Am edition. T-Tops, killer paint job and a ROCKIN' stereo!"
My first car was a 75 Chevy Monza my high school job boss gave me for free that was an absolute basket case. But as soon as I had enough money, like you and partly because of the movie, I bought a red 76 Trans Am with t-tops (yeah, they leaked, but were so worth it) and really cool honeycomb wheels. That interior, especially, the dash was as slick as things got. Strangled by mid-70s emissions technology, but over the next few years, I got it running the way the Pontiac 400s from an earlier time did. On the stereo side, my dad got me a beautiful Clarion head unit out of a wrecked Saab 9-3. You should have seen the way the guys at the Saab dealership looked at my scruffy butt when I showed up to get some documentation on it. EVERY single person asked how I got the radio, with an "yeah, right..." smirk reaction to my answer. Adding a couple of amplifiers and some speakers got it to seriously bangin' level.
You're absolutely right, what a cool car! Thanks for jogging my memory back to awfully fun times.
Again, much respect to Burt...
