If the movie you're referring to is "Smokey and the Bandit", and it probably is, it's depicting an odd thing that occurred in the early 70s. Coors Beer suddenly caught on big with beer drinkers and Coors was selling every drop it made, but all in the western states. Texas was the eastern-most distribution point for a time. People were scrambling and fighting to get Coors distributorships, and beer drinkers were driving long distances to get Coors. I lived in Houston at the time and it was hard to get even then. People who traveled to western states were hauling cases of the stuff back home for themselves and friends.
In "Smokey", some rich guy in Atlanta, Ga., wanted Coors for a party or wedding reception, so he hired Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed to go to Texas to pick up a load and get it back by party time: "The boys are thirsty in Atlanta, and there's beer in Texarkana (Tex./Ark.)"
A good movie about the more traditional form of bootlegging was "Thunder Road", with Robert Mitchum: "Now let me tell the story, I can tell it all, about the mountain boy who ran illegal alcohol. His daddy made the whiskey, son, he drove the load, and when his engine roared they called the highway Thunder Road." As I recall, Mitchum drove a souped-up '49 Merc with great skill.
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