Smokey and the Bandit

[Lew29]

I was only a few years old when Smokey and the Bandit came out in 1977, so I didn't see it back then, but I got the DVD last year. This movie is super cool and started the CB and trucker craze that swept North America in the late 70's. It seemed VERY slick in the movie when all of the people along the way kept giving info to The Bandit about where the cops were and stuff, and it seems like 99% of the cars on the road back then in rural areas had CBs in them. It looks like it was way more fun to communicate with people on the highway with CBs than it is now with the damn cell phones. I was just wondering if anyone who was CBing back then in the late 70's or 80's when it was at its peak, has a funny or cool story to tell about the extreme fun that they had using the CB?

[Foxhunt75]

Well When I was a kid, we all had handels given to us. I was like 7 at the time lol.

Dad= The Idaho Spud Nut
Mom= Mama Spuds
Me = Little Tate
Sister= Tater Tot

We live in Idaho can you tell?

[Cybergal]

Originally Posted by Foxhunt75

Well When I was a kid, we all had handels given to us. I was like 7 at the time lol.

Dad= The Idaho Spud Nut
Mom= Mama Spuds
Me = Little Tate
Sister= Tater Tot

We live in Idaho can you tell?

And I bet your mom could come up with all kinds of ways to make potatoes.

[Foxhunt75]

Originally Posted by Cybergal

And I bet your mom could come up with all kinds of ways to make potatoes.

Actually she doesn't like to fix them lol
My dad really doesn't like them either.
The refrence really is about the candybar, which used to be my fav for a long time lol.

Being Korean, my mother makes rice, and dad loves it, cause he grew up on taters. I grew up on rice, and hate it but love taters lmao go fig.

[Mr_Dude]

At one time, when I drove a Chevy Caprice, you'd have found me in Northwestern Illinois on 19 as the Northern Blacksmith (because people I communicate with on CB usually know who I am and that I do dabble in the medieval metallic works seasonally)

[prisonerofthehwy]

Originally Posted by Lew29

I was only a few years old when Smokey and the Bandit came out in 1977, so I didn't see it back then, but I got the DVD last year. This movie is super cool and started the CB and trucker craze that swept North America in the late 70's. It seemed VERY slick in the movie when all of the people along the way kept giving info to The Bandit about where the cops were and stuff, and it seems like 99% of the cars on the road back then in rural areas had CBs in them. It looks like it was way more fun to communicate with people on the highway with CBs than it is now with the damn cell phones. I was just wondering if anyone who was CBing back then in the late 70's or 80's when it was at its peak, has a funny or cool story to tell about the extreme fun that they had using the CB?

Ok..... I don't know how young I was, maybe 3-4. I was pretty young. My sister is about a year older than me. We unbuckled our seat belts, and decided to do handstands in the back seat of my dad's car. He of course, became irrate, as did my mom. Because they didn't won't to pull over, and my dad had a twisted sense of humor back then, he acted like a ventriliquist, and said he was the police, and for us children to get buckled back up.
Me and my sister did so, until a few miles up the road, him and my mom, began laughing hysterically, and then they admitted to tricking us.
We had just began to do our handstands again, when we heard the same thing.... sounded like the same voice......
This time it was for real, and we got pulled over! Luckily for us, the cop was pretty cool. Perhaps he felt sorry for my parents with two young helluns. lmao So, no one got in trouble, but me and my sister got a pretty good lecture from the cop. I think my dad and the cop, started talking about and comparing CB's if I remember right.

[newbiewannadoitright]

Back when my Dad was a CB guy you had to get a license from the FCC. We had a base unit at home with a big tower antenna, and CB's in our cars. Back then in the 60's, the radio traffic was light enough to where you could talk across town. Later in the 70's when I was in High school, alot of my friends had them. We'd use them to meet after school or on Saturday night. My Dad or Mom could keep in touch with me when I was out and about, so they never really worried when I wasn't home on time. They would just call. Later with linears and the right antenna, we would "talk Skip" or long distance, with more power than allowed by law. It was fun to sit at night when it was quiet, in Louisiana, and talk to a guy in Minnesota, or California. We also had what we called wallpaper. When you would talk skip to someone, you would get his info and send him a post card, and he would send you one back. Lots of people had personalized postcards printed up with their handles and a cartoon photo of something related to their handle or name. We had a wall full of them. I remember the guy who's handle was "Chainsaw". His wife was skil saw and his son was hacksaw. He had a cartoon picture of his family each holding their respective saws. People really got into it back then. You had CB shops all over town. I've been wanting one in my pick-up for a while now, but can't find anyone to install one and get it set up properly. It seems the only place you can find CB radios now is in truck stops.

[wallbanger]

Yeah Newbie, most CB shops are in/near truck stops. But be careful, most of those 'chopshops' will just jack up your gear, as opposed to making it better.

[Steve & Lo]

Smokey and The Bandit didn't start the CB craze.... I was 17 in 77....already had a CB in the car...... My dad had been running a radio for about 5-6 years by then. All the movie did was make it more popular among 'civilians'.....non-truckers. Truckers had been using radios for years before that movie. I still have some of his old 23 channel Royce raidios at home... Those were really good radios! And, no, they're not for sale. There are some really good places on the internet....just google cb radios....you'll get lots of answers. You can buy everything you need to install it yourself. And, you get the satisfaction of knowing you did it.

[RENORCR]

I remember when you can built a 23 channel CB radio. You brought it has a kit and you do all the soldering. I owned two 23 channel Heath Kit radios. Lot's of good info on the Net. You can find respectable people out there to answer your questions, too.