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Heres a Kenworth W925 Ive Recieved in a Trade. will be Built Like Smokey and The Bandits. I have pics of it as a Daycab At first because that was My original Intention. But yeterday Ive watched the Movie and Changed my Mind! LOL. Still needs to be sanded and Painted. Maybe a CAT goin in her. But most likly a Twin Turbo Cummins!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Let me know what you think so far!!

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The Truck Is Being Sanded Some More Tonight, Than Tomorrow Morning Ill Get Some Gloss Black On it. Than Later On Ill mask it Off And Paint the Gold Stripes On. Im Thinkin Cummins Right Now. What you think? Cummins Or Cat?

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Wow, I never thought I'd see the day when someone built a model of the original Smokey & the Bandit rig! Good luck on this project!

One note: Don't forget to paint the Kenworth logo gold, just like the movie truck (though I think in some shots, it was regular silver).

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Dylan,

There were three trucks used in the filming of Smokey & the Bandit: (1) 1973 W900, and (2) 1974 W900s. The 1973 W900 had the gold emblem in recognition of Kenworth's 50th anniversary.

Here are some decent references:

http://www.smokeyandthebanditmodels.com/Home_Page.php

And here are the stripes:

http://www.modeltruckin.com/movie.html

Hey Jim, where did you get the info regarding the tractors? I didn't see it in the links. I would be curious to see how these were set up, etc.

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Ray,

I searched for "Smokey and the Bandit Kenworth" and found a forum just on that. One of the contributors said that there were 4 trucks. One was powered by a Detroit. On the ATHS web site they were discussing a while back the passing of Jerry Reed and the discussion got onto the trucks in the movie. Apparently one of the Kenworths had a KT 450 with an RTO 12513 transmission and I think it was a 1973 model with the gold emblem. Not to sure of my facts as I'm not an expert on Kenworths. Does anyone know which paint scheme the movie truck was?

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_10238-Kenworth-W-900-1973.html

http://forums.aths.org/InstantForum414/Top...ight=jerry+reed

Must have been quite a challange to get that KT under the short hood. This would be a great project truck.

Best Wishes

Dave Bates

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