The Bandit Run The Bandit Run The Bandit Run is a reenactment of the journey portrayed in the 1977 film, "Smokey and the Bandit". The reenactment first took place on May 15, 2007 and has become an annual event. The reenactment was the brainchild of David Hershey and Dave Hall who wanted to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the classic film. Hall, of the website, "Restore a Muscle Car" and Hershey came up with the idea shortly after Hershey purchased his restored 1977 Pontiac Trans Am from him in 2006. Following the same route that the characters Bo "Bandit" Darville (Burt Reynolds) and
The Gumball Rally as many rides in Disneyland as possible in a single day. The winning teams are presented with medals and have bragging rights forever after; and the grand prize is a gumball machine topped by Cinderella's Castle, obviously inspired by the movie's Gumball Trophy. As noted above, "The Gumball Rally" ushered in a subgenre of road-race films, many of them starring a younger Burt Reynolds, one of whose more popular films, "Smokey and the Bandit", spawned a still-ongoing yearly rally event called The Bandit Run. The Gumball Rally The Gumball Rally is a 1976 American comedy film directed and co-written by