The Mount Eeale grade is steep and long and everybody that seen it thought the Bandit was gone. All gone.
10 seconds sound clip from the Smokey and the Bandit (1977) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:01:40 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Every gearjammer knows his name. They swear he got asphalt a-runnin' in his veins.
- A foot like lead and nerves like steel. He's gonna go to glory ridin' 18 wheels.
- Oh, boy. He left Atlanta back in '63 haulin' him a load up to Tennessee.
- He hit Mount Eeale in a drivin' rain so hard he couldn't even see the passin' lane.
- Well, he started down the grade when he lost a gear. He hit them brakes, found he had no air.
- A lot of folks seen him and they all say he had his head out the window yellin', Clear the way!
- Well, he got to the bottom safe and sound. Everybody asked Bandit how he made it down.
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