The Bandit Run 2022
Around noon today, I got a call from my brother saying “Hey, Smokey and The Bandit left Texarkana this morning headed down Hwy 82. They just came through Magnolia and are in Village, Arkansas headed your way”. I dropped everything. I left my lunch, grabbed a camera and jumped in the truck like Buford T. Justice on a hot tip hoping to finally catch the notorious Smokey and the Bandit.
Luckily, I’m fairly close to Hwy 82 in El Dorado, Arkansas so I headed to an overpass that usually has very little traffic. I got there just in time to see the lead car in “The Bandit Run” coming my way.
According to the events website, The Bandit Run is an event put on by a company called Restore A Muscle Car.
“The Bandit Run is a yearly event started by Dave Hall of Restore a Muscle Car and David Hershey in 2007. The first year was a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the movie Smokey and the Bandit. The 2007 run re-enacted the drive from Texarkana to Atlanta.
The mission of the Bandit Run is to get classic cars out of the garage and onto the road.”
It was pretty cool to see coming down the highway. If you were a part of the group if if you just missed it, you can view or purchase images from the run as they passed through El Dorado, Arkansas by visiting our photo gallery.