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The "Bandit Run" will be in Topeka Monday.

The “Bandit Run,” including about 100 classic Trans Ams, is coming to Topeka on Monday.

The “Smokey and the Bandit” traveling fan club/car show will visit the Topeka Zoo. The mission of the Bandit Run is to get classic cars out of the garage and onto the road.

Participants will be coming from Nebraska and are expected to arrive in the afternoon, although a precise time was not given in a news release from the zoo.

Participants plan to see Cora, the zoo’s 66-year-old Asian elephant who was credited as Charlotte in the movie “Smokey & the Bandit II.” In addition to the dozens of Trans Ams that will be parked in the zoo’s south lot, Burt Reynolds’ niece Nancy Lee Hess will also be on hand. Reynolds famously drove a Pontiac Trans Am in the 1970s film franchise.