It’s Bo Duke vs. Bo “Bandit” Darville in the finals for the The Greatest Driver That Never Was contest. This is really a tough choice for us at FOTP. It’s two great (fictional) drivers from the South, but we’re going with the Bandit. Burt Reynolds/The Bandit wins out simply due to the stach. On a side note, we never realized the connections between Smokey and the Bandit and The Dukes of Hazzard (from Wikipedia):
Several people who would later star in the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard (which is very much in the same vein as Smokey and the Bandit) had cameos in this movie. Sonny Shroyer (who played Deputy Enos Strate in the The Dukes of Hazzard) has several lines of dialogue as a Georgia State Trooper on a motorcycle who pulls over Jerry Reed. Ben Jones who played Cooter is seen very early on in the movie: when Big Enos asks where he might find the Bandit, Jones’ only line is, “I ain’t seen ‘im.” John Schneider (who played Bo Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard) also had a cameo in a crowd scene towards the end of the movie, where he can be seen wearing a large cowboy hat. Incidentally, Burt Reynolds would go on to star in the film version of The Dukes of Hazzard as Boss Hogg.
If you need some help deciding who to vote for, there are some videos of both drivers after the jump.
The Bandit:
Bo Duke:
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