Fast cars and big trucks are synonymous with the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy of films – and now one of the trucks owned by the late Burt Reynolds himself is here in Lincolnshire.
A Coningsby-based trucking firm now owns Burt’s Kenworth W900B American Big Rig truck which is set to be restored within the next year.
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The Hollywood legend, who died on September 6 aged 82, bought the truck back in 1985 and would use it to tow his Nascar – used for car racing – which was driven by Harry Grant.
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The vehicle is now owned by Clive Shaw of Clive Shaw Trucking who will strip it down and restore it.
Clive’s partner, Lesley Hollis, said the history is amazing.
She said: “It was purchased in June this year. It was a 1985 truck and it was bought in the States by Burt Reynolds in 1985.
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“We are still finding out some of the history about it but it was owned by him for four or five years.
“Clive is a massive Smokey and the Bandit fan. It was the history that came with the truck so we couldn’t turn it down.
“It’s needs restoring but you can’t re-write the history that it has seen.”
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The truck was originally green but is currently white – this is something the new owner is going to restore.
Miss Hollis added: “We believed that when it left Burt Reynolds it went to another racing team and white was their colour.
“It’s the weirdest feeling driving it and knowing that he used to own it. We often wish that the truck could tell the stories it’s seen.”
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Mr Shaw bought the truck off a man in Yorkshire who directly approached him. But they are yet to discover who brought the vehicle over to the UK.
Miss Hollis said: “We have a fleet of arctic trucks that we hire out and the previous owner called us as he had to sell it because of a divorce and he wanted it to go to someone who would look after it.
“We have the original factory sheet and so we know everything on it down to every nut and bolt.
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“It’s a major thing to restore it. It has to be stripped down to the chassis, re-built and resprayed. We would like to do it as soon as possible.”
The truck recently took part in a memorial run for Burt Reynolds along the M25 and it was joined by a copy of the truck used in Smokey and the Bandit.
Thousands of people came to watch the event and people waited on bridges over the motorway to catch a glimpse of the vehicle.
The truck will be at the Rockingham Motor Speedway this weekend where people will have the opportunity to drive it.
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