Corrected entry: Toward the end, when Snowman's truck comes roaring triumphantly into the fairgrounds, the band is playing "Marching Through Georgia". This is a YANKEE song describing General Sherman's devastating invasion in 1864 and would most emphatically NOT be played in Atlanta to celebrate anything!
Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie, when the Bandit drives into that town at night, all four headlights are working. When he pulls around the building to get away from the police, only three headlights are working. (00:13:25 - 00:14:50)
Correction: Given how he's driving, he could easily have hit a slight bump, causing the light to burn out or one of the wire connections to break.
Corrected entry: In the scene where the sheriff tries to pass Snowman, the truck clips the car in the left rear, causing it to spin. The truck then T-bones the car on the driver's side. In the following scenes, no damage is apparent to the car.
Correction: When the sheriff tries to pass Snowman, the truck clips the car in the right (passenger's side) rear, causing it to spin. The truck then T-bones the car on the passenger's side. In the following scenes, no damage is apparent to the car.
Corrected entry: When Bandit drops Frog off at the Choke and Puke, he parks in the third spot to the right of the entrance. After his scene with Sheriff Justice, Bandit runs out to the Trans Am driven by Frog, then Sheriff Justice exits and walks to his cruiser blocking the now empty spot. I didn't know the '77 Trans Am had flight capabilities.
Correction: Frog has obviously moved the Trans Am before the Sheriff got there, therefore, the Trans Am was not blocked in. Otherwise, the Sheriff would have seen the car and Frog sitting in the parking lot.
Corrected entry: When Big and Little Enos are first looking for the Bandit at the truck rodeo,they find his manager who says he is paying him $25 a day so his fans can look at him. Big Enos says he's buying his attraction for half an hour, which should only be about 50 cents, but Little Enos hands him a bill.
Correction: He's not being paid to be looked at 24 hours a day - even if he's "working" 12 hour days that's $1.04 per half-hour.
Corrected entry: In the scene where Bandit is going to jump the bridge, he spins the Trans Am around twice. When the camera angle switches to showing the Bandit step on the brake pedal, a clutch pedal can be seen in the bottom left of the screen. This is strange as all the interior shots of the car show an automatic transmission.
Correction: This is not the clutch pedal but the parking brake pedal .
Corrected entry: After the Bandit makes the jump across the bridge, a police car runs immediately right off the bridge into the river, but Sheriff Branford's car doesn't. When Buford T. Justice later rear-ends Sheriff Branford's car off the bridge, that first police car has completely disappeared.
Correction: Actually the sheriff's car lands on the first patrol car. It is visible in the side shot of the sheriff's car going off the bridge.
Correction: No, the sheriff's car does not land on the first patrol car. The first patrol car is no longer in the river. It has disappeared.
Corrected entry: Just before the Snowman and the Bandit reach ol' Miss, the Bandit asks where the Snowman is and he replies "mile marker 85," to which the Bandit replies, "Son of a gun; so am I." The Snowman then looks in his side mirror to see the Trans Am behind him with Bandit driving, yet in the next shot when they stop, Bandit gets out of the passenger side, revealing that Frog and the Bandit had not changed places yet.
Correction: Mirrored image. No problem with the scene. When passing on the left, the driver would be on the outside of the road, which it shows Frog on the outside of road in the car.
Corrected entry: The car that was driven by the Good Witch of the North was most likely used in several different scenes. In the front end damage, you can see her blue car was red before that, and yellow before that. (01:01:25)
Correction: The fact that this accident-prone old woman is driving a car that has been repainted more than once is in no way a 'mistake', nor a 'revealing mistake' etc. She simply owns a blue car that has been red, and yellow, in the past, or has been repaired using parts from red and yellow vehicles in the past. Now, if she had just bought it new and crashed on the way home from the dealer, it could be argued this is an error (or simply evidence of a crooked salesman). As it is, though, no mistake here.
Correction: While a Georgian band would never play "Marching Through Georgia", we never see the band which plays it. They might actually be at the fairgrounds, or they might be soundtrack music, like the strings we hear when the Bandit and Frog are out of the car learning to like each other earlier.