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00leland00

12-16-09, 18:09

I'm still giddy like a school girl. :D

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm37/qball00980/TheGeneral1.jpg

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm37/qball00980/TheGeneral2.jpg

Icculus

12-16-09, 18:12

Only in Georgia :D

LockenLoad

12-16-09, 19:21

makes me want to blow up an out house

Pilgrim

12-16-09, 19:21

God I love that car.

What are the specifics behind this one... first unit, second unit, restoration, or conversion?

What was the motor?

M4arc

12-16-09, 19:29

Awesome! I can't tell you how many times I tried to paint our lawn mower orange and jump it in our back yard!

00leland00

12-16-09, 19:38

God I love that car.

What are the specifics behind this one... first unit, second unit, restoration, or conversion?

What was the motor?

I don't know, I didn't get a chance to really talk to the owner except to ask him if I could take a pic. Really wish I had though.

SWATcop556

12-16-09, 23:10

Nice!! You are right though. Only in Georgia. :D

bradb55

12-16-09, 23:20

Nice!

bvmbandit

12-17-09, 10:15

Only in Georgia :D

Yes, they have a show each year at the Atlanta Motor Speedway of nothing but the cars, jeeps, vehicles, and actors, actresses off of the set for the show. I saw video of some of the cars jumping ramps and laughed my head off, most did not survive.

Outlander Systems

12-17-09, 10:27

Yeah, C'mon!

truckie453

12-17-09, 11:40

makes me want to blow up an out house

with a bow and flaming arrow while hanging out of a car. :D

KellyTTE

12-17-09, 12:15

No roll cage?

Doors not welded shut?

Meh. ;)

will_be

12-17-09, 12:23

Only in Georgia :D

Not so! The actor that played Cooter the mechanic on the TV show used to (may still, I'm not sure) own a roadside gift shop in Sperryville, VA & would park one of the cars from the show out front to get people to stop. Somewhere I have a picture of my kids standing by it.

Sudden

12-17-09, 14:50

I saw an sales ad for a General project car here in Delaware just yesterday.

R1pper

12-17-09, 15:39

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc179/Wkunasek/CARALBUM315.jpg

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00leland00

12-17-09, 16:20

http://i213.photobucket.com/albums/cc179/Wkunasek/CARALBUM315.jpg

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Shit, you win. :cool:

AMMOTECH

12-17-09, 19:18

Having grown up in the area where Smokey and the Bandit was filmed (Clayton county{Jonesboro, Ga}) back in the mid '80's I spent my misguided teen hot-rod years running around on the same streets. ;)

Here are a couple of cool sites fo those fans of "then and now" type of pics:

Smokey and the Bandit:
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/smokey/thumbnails.htm

Dukes:
http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/dukes/thumbnails.htm

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Dave Berryhill

12-17-09, 21:56

I used to live in L.A. and happened to visit the studio where Dukes was filmed. They had a whole lot filled with General Lees in various conditions. Some looked fine, some had the windshields or the sides removed for filming the actors inside the cars and many of them were wrecked :D

JeffWard

12-17-09, 22:00

I read somewhere, they did in 2-3 cars per episode for Dukes of Hazard...

That's a lot of wrecking and rebuilding...

Jeff

8th

12-18-09, 11:40

There is a Harley Davidson Dealership in Wisconsin that has a car museum as well. They have at least one if not more there. Seeing a fullsized on on a post outfront is what got me to stop. Some really nice cars there.

Sam

12-18-09, 11:45

A friend of mine went to high school with John Schneider.

crob1

12-18-09, 23:46

I used to watch that show as a kid, and liked it. Now as an adult, Mopar fan, it makes me sick to realize how much that show depleted the number of '69 Chargers that are left in the world today.:mad:

Dick Manley,
Beautiful Trans Am!!

Spade

12-18-09, 23:58

Only in Georgia :D

We have them in Missouri as well.

CarlosDJackal

12-20-09, 16:09

Unless Daisy Duke was driving it, I don't care!! :p

m4fun

12-20-09, 21:11

Not Daisy, and not sure if he is still around, but just before you hit one of the northern entrances to the SKyline Drive in NW Virginia, "Cuddar" lived and had his Gen Lee out for everylone to see.

jtb0311

12-21-09, 02:23

Did you have a bow and an arrow with a stick of dynamite attached?

ToeCutter

12-24-09, 23:26

My neighbor down the street has a General Lee. Its a real TV car that he bought all restored and payed big bucks for.

DrMark

12-25-09, 21:21

Diggin the General Lee!

cougar_guy04

12-25-09, 21:45

Only in Georgia. :D
You should see some of the creations here in Florida. Someone that works at the local Wal-Mart has a Dodge Ramcharger they attempted to make look like the General Lee. Looks like the General's chase vehicle that's seem better days.