Chad Austin sends along this neat story from the Atlanta Journal and Constitution about a Georgia guy who’s a devoted fan of the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit (which was the #2 top-grossing movie that year by the way, after a little art-house film called Star Wars). And Tyler Hambrick not only wound up buying a Trans-Am like the one Burt Reynolds used in that movie, but last year for the movie’s 30th anniversary he re-created the epic journey from Texarkana, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia.

And tomorrow, Tyler Hambrick and about sixty carloads of his close friends are going to do it all over again, this time going from Columbus, Ohio to Atlanta.

Here’s the official website for Bandit Run 2008 and here’s a map of the route. Looks like the Bandit convoy is going to be going through Asheville after they enter North Carolina, then going ...