Smokey & the Bandit movie locations then & now...

cadboy · Post by **cadboy** » Thu Nov 20, 14 6:36 am

Great shots and what a holiday to do all this and find the exact places.

Thank you for sharing with us.

guy whitwam · Post by **guy whitwam** » Thu Nov 20, 14 11:57 am

Love anything like that ,really good detective work there and looks great fun too...........excellent post that

Carl · Post by **Carl** » Thu Nov 20, 14 12:05 pm

Great stuff, thanks. Its amazing how something's change so dramatically over the years.

Faux-7-0 · Post by **Faux-7-0** » Thu Nov 20, 14 1:07 pm

Excellent bit of lunchtime reading - thanks for sharing.

Charger · Post by **Charger** » Thu Nov 20, 14 1:10 pm

fantastic!!

there’s something about filming locations

great photos, it’s not easy getting the same perspective, those look great

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 7:50 pm

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 8:07 pm

JohnS wrote:Great stuff Danny

Must have taken a lot of time even finding them exact places where the shots were taken, well done chap

Thanks John!!

It took a lot of time mate,i had the location address but then trying to find the exact landmark on a long road after 37 years was hard work but well worth it once we found 'em!!

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 8:08 pm

RW71 wrote:Excellent work Danny, thank you for sharing!

Thanks mate,no problem,glad you enjoyed 'em!!

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 8:09 pm

Mossy68 wrote:Love stuff like this mate. Brilliant.
Thanks for sharing.

No probs mate,glad you enjoyed 'em!!

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 8:10 pm

Dave81 wrote:Great stuff..........

Thanks Dave!!

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 8:17 pm

morgan wrote:Impressive stuff - i love filming location pics. Ive done the dukes covington ( farm, boars nest etc) and only learned later that smokey and the bandit was like 20 miles away - gutted - i must have seen it 1000 times when i was a kid.

Have looked up most of these locations onstreetview, but kudos for actually getting there. Some of the locations look really different.

The flint river jump - where was the run up ? Did you manage to get into the woods ? I just couldnt see on the map how they did it !

Great pics Danny. I might reawaken my covington pics on this thread. I met cletus - but you met daisy ! Wow!

Cheers mate!!

Yep i did all the Dukes locations March 2013,had a blast finding those!!

We tried so hard mate to find the run up for the flint river jump,we just could not get anywhere near,it is just so overgrown now mate.
The landing side of the bridge tho mate is very easy to get to and sadly that is now a U-Haul self-storage depot.

Yes mate please bump up your Covington pics,would be great to see and compare. I have now met all the living Dukes cast.

danny_duke01 · Post by **danny_duke01** » Thu Nov 20, 14 8:19 pm

newport100 wrote:best post in ages - thoroughly enjoyed that- thanks

Thanks for the kind words...glad you enjoyed the pics!!

db · Post by db » Thu Nov 20, 14 9:07 pm

Wow that's quite an achievement!
Fascinating to see the old and the new side by side.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Fri Nov 21, 14 12:14 pm

danny_duke01 wrote:
morgan wrote:Impressive stuff - i love filming location pics. Ive done the dukes covington ( farm, boars nest etc) and only learned later that smokey and the bandit was like 20 miles away - gutted - i must have seen it 1000 times when i was a kid.

Have looked up most of these locations onstreetview, but kudos for actually getting there. Some of the locations look really different.

The flint river jump - where was the run up ? Did you manage to get into the woods ? I just couldnt see on the map how they did it !

Great pics Danny. I might reawaken my covington pics on this thread. I met cletus - but you met daisy ! Wow!
Cheers mate!!
Yep i did all the Dukes locations March 2013,had a blast finding those!!

We tried so hard mate to find the run up for the flint river jump,we just could not get anywhere near,it is just so overgrown now mate.
The landing side of the bridge tho mate is very easy to get to and sadly that is now a U-Haul self-storage depot.

Yes mate please bump up your Covington pics,would be great to see and compare. I have now met all the living Dukes cast.

Just re-checked google-maps.
Yeah, there is a line in the trees that clearly would have been the run-up for the river jump, and even a gate at the roadside. But from what you are saying the actual trail is long since overgrown. You must have been gutted not to get that extra 100yds to the actual site ! Top effort though.

Loving these pics. Too good to just waste on here. There are a few 'then/now' sites for smokey and the bandit - you should put a page together. Plenty would like to see these, and you have got WAY better angles to match the film than most others have achieved.

Top effort all round.

Yes, I'll dig out some covington ones. Got to see Lee1 pre-restoration and the duke-farm pre-demolition (although it was in ruins)

mad machs · Post by **mad machs** » Fri Nov 21, 14 4:09 pm

Great stuff

only looking at this location video just the other night...