Few automobiles have ever become as inseparable from a motion picture as the black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit. James Bond had his Aston Martins, Steve McQueen had his Highland Green Mustang, and the Duke boys had the General Lee—but no Hollywood car did more to transform the fortunes of an American performance model than the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am. 

When you think of the ultimate cinematic car chase, one sequence immediately dominates the conversation. Ten minutes and fifty-three seconds of screaming V8s, smoking tires, and airborne American muscle tearing through the hills of San Francisco. Frank Bullitt, played by the "King of Cool" Steve McQueen, behind the wheel of a de-badged, sinister 1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt, relentlessly pursuing a black 1968 Dodge Charger R/T.