Even though Burt Reynolds would become the biggest box office star at the time and it took a quarter of the films budget just to pay him. It paid off in the long run as it was the 2nd highest grossing film that year, only 2nd to Star Wars. This movie would catapult the trans-am to a national name and hit record sales. Pontiac gave Burt his own promotional model of the car.
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