Here's what i had to work on this friday afternoon at the shop.
Guess Cooter isn't the only one who services the general.
A few of me standing beside the car in my cryco uniform and one of me signing the trunk lid.
Guy asked me to sign the car as anyone who has had a hand in it has signed it including all of the original cast and crew of the
dukes of hazzard.
Sweett
We now have a celebrity on the boards! Yahoo!
Nice, Im digging the uniform, Although mine say Mr. Goodwrench on them haha. That would be awesome to have my name next to those.
Wow a 68 even! I hate when people make General Lee's out of 70's...
to bad the general is based on a 69 :flame:
The original series had both 68 and 69's.
Yea it is a 68,don't see to many of them around,especially in general form.
Took it out for a test drive,got lots of looks.
Is it a 383 or 440 4bbl?
Should have had a HEMI:hick:
383,took it for a roadtest,not bad overall,had a deadspot off idle but went pretty good for a big car.
My bird with it's little 302 would eat it for lunch though,lol.
Hey sleeper, did you paint the TC white???
Seein a white TC in your signature there.
So was that one of the "close-up" cars?
That's cool you got to sign it, a little history there.
As far as the "original"....only differences between a '68 and a '69 are a coupla exterior lights, and the rear panel.
A lot less changes than say, a '71 into a '69.
Kudos to the owner for keeping the '68 rear style...
Dad had a 383 hi-pro '68 Roadrunner, only thing that would beat it was the 454 Chevelles, and anything with a 440 or a HEMI, or those 428SCJ Stang's...but he never ran into any of them.
Wish he still had it.
Dominator...you lucky ass! ;)
Wait, does it have a black interior? Should be tan.
It's cool that people do that and kudos for the guy tributing his car to the series but why is it that everyone seems to get so close yet be so far away.
I thought the '68's that appeared in the series had the rear panel cut out and one from a '69 installed along with the correct '69 split grill. I remember reading about that somewhere. It was a blue '68 that they modified into a '69 for the series and it was one of the last 17 or so surviving cars from the series. All were sold by Warner Brothers years ago.
I do prefer the '68 to the '69 Charger though.
So basically Big Blocks hehe. That's a nifty little car though, I heard they went through nearly a hundred of those cars over the course of the series, anyone know the total number? I like how they guy has people involved with the car sign it.
Yea it was kinda cool to sign the car as if i where something to the car.
Hell i only put a steering box in it and did an alignment but the guy asked me to sign it, said he would not have been able to goto his next car show(in the states)without me.
This car did have a black interior,i asked the guy and he did say it was not an original but a replica.
Still get a ton of looks and people wanting to check out the car.
The cast signatures on the trunk are a definate add on to the cars history.
Means that everyone of the original cast has seen the car and respects it enough to put there signatures on it.
Wonder if the shops gonna start getting in all these old mopar's now LOL.
He managed to get the original cast to autograph it! Sweet!
woops, missed that in an earlier post :dunce:
FromWikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_Lee
ENJOY!
Yup I was right ;)
That car by chance didn't have Manitoba plates (green and white) on it? Because we had a local 1968 dodge charger R/T at the Winnipeg world of wheels this year, and I know the owner drives it all across the country.
No the plates where ontario, they where custom plates that refered to the CNH320(not gonna give his exact plate for privacy reasons)
That is soo cool Dominator, lucky you man.
Its actually CHN 320 on the show. Not that I was a big fan or anything :)
My bad that's what i meant just typed it in wrong.
The real one with the actual signatures just sold for almost 10mill a month or so ago.
Assuming the high bidder actually paid John Schneider what was bid.
There’s some more pics of it here
it does have tan interior.
it is a 69
it is a Hemi
it Is signed by the cast
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Dodge-Charger-Charger-R-T-The-General-Lee-by-Bo-Duke-himself-John-Schneider_W0QQitemZ250108256198QQihZ015QQcategoryZ6199QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
That deal was proven to be a fraud.
I knew there was question on that
Did the seller or the purchaser turn out to be the fraud, or both?
Just the purchaser was BS, It is being sold by John Schneider and It is back up for auction. BTW this car was not on the show but it was in the last "real" dukes movie.
http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_5863733?source=most_viewed (http://"http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_5863733?source=most_viewed")
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18740715/ (http://"http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18740715/")