Participants pay $90 to join the run hotels, food and fuel are extra. Like the movie, The Bandit Run welcomes everyone the price of entry is not steep. It’s not different it’s just unique because it’s one car.” “Any car event that we’ve ever been involved in is just like this. “Car people are good people,” said Larry Smith, a farmer from Franklin, Ill., who owns a 2002 Trans Am, the final year of production. “The cars are quite a show, but they almost become a by-product because of the friendships you make. “We have a blast,” said Drew Demarco of Baltimore, standing beside his 1981 Pontiac Trans Am SE. Even more remarkably, it was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.īut for participants of The Bandit Run, none of that cultural dross matters for them, the car is the star.
So it’s worth considering that the public embraced the film, so much so that it earned $126 million and went on to spawn two sequels.
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And they drove them the whole way.”įor some, such passion is hard to imagine for a movie that was unanimously panned by critics upon its release.
“I have people here from Florida and Texas who took several days just to get up to our starting point up in Carlisle. “You know, it’s all about having fun and being on the road,” said Hall, standing near a recreation of Snowman’s tractor-trailer. The tour stopped in Virginia Beach for two days. This year, the Run finished June 26 in Myrtle Beach, S.C., having started at the GM Nationals in Carlisle, Pa., on June 20. Now in its eighth year, the event still attracts more than 100 cars and their owners on an annual trek somewhere in the United States.
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