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I like it so far. Look forward to seeing where you go with it.

Where did you find these? Heck where did you come across the car too?

Thanks Scott, Chris, David, Bill, Patrick, Joe and William! I do appreciate it! I posted the finished build under glass Reliving my childhood... que Waylon

WOW... that looks awesome. Nicely done! And WOW.. I inspired something. I am honored. And completely down with this thread.... Let's see some more...

Before we go any further... I know this car has been done to death... and will continue to be... but I dig it, and this one's mine... This has been an ongoing build for the better part of a year... from resourcing the pieces, to working around work and the weather... Finally calling it done... well, I do still need to add the antenna... Revell 69 and 68 charger kits Wheels and tires from Fireball Modelworks Decals from Slixx Scratch built brush guard what a difference 20yrs and a better kit make, As always, thanks for looking! Model on...

I used to sit and watch this with my grandparents... well, they'd watch.. I only watched if the car was in the scene lol

Growing up in the 80's, I was thrilled by the cars of prime time TV. Shows like Knight Rider, The A-Team, Magnum PI, Miami Vice and Simon & Simon filled my week from one day to another. But like most kids from that era, nothing grasped me quite like The General Lee. And being from a tiny town in the south, were dirt roads covered the county, I guess it kinda felt like I was watching everyday life. It was great. Simple times... simple life... simple world. Unfortunately, I didn't get into modeling until after "The Dukes" had went off the air. Models of "The General" were long gone. There wasn't an internet for me to search for one.. heck we didn't even have a computer til I was in my mid 20's. No hobby shops anywhere near me, except for the 10 ft section at Wal-Mart... or the occassional trip out of town to "the bigger Wal-Mart and K-Mart". So in the late 90's when "The Dukes" became popular again, outta nowhere, I was stoked to find a General Lee on one of our trips outta town. I built it... I wasn't impressed at all... BUT, it was the General, so I didn't really care. I built to the best of my limited ability... and that sucked too.. lol. she's sit in a case for 20yrs. The roll bar looked terrible inside and didn't fit right, so I discarded that. The back window as everybody knows, is nowhere close to what it's supposed to be. The front end doesn't fit and the suspension made it sit with the nose up and back squatted. And those decals.... upside down star in the middle, and black lettering... but, it was the General, so it was fine... Soon after, news of my child coming, I left the hobby. 20yrs, more or less... have passed since then. After getting back into modeling, I decided this is one of the cars I was going to revisit. After seeing the Revell 69 Charger, I thought that would make a good base. So I bought one, but I didn't know what I was going to do with the vinyl top. Soon after I bought the AMT General again for part... ugh... Then I joined here and found a vast new world of info I knew nothing about... I ended up getting the 68 charger kit, ran across the wheels and tires while searching Fireball Modelworks... just looking at what he had. And then found Slixx decals... I've been slowly piecing this together for the better part of a year. Now that you're bored, on to the build... I started by prepping and painting the body. I know the debate on the color... I've read it several times. It's a corvette color call "Flame Red"... no it's Hemi Orange... no it's not... yes it is... Well, I didn't have either. But what I did have... Hugger Orange... So... Hugger Orange it is... not to shabby, if I do say so myself. I painted interior light sand with details here and there. And I added a roll bar and CB from a Revellogram 3n1 kit... Then painted up the wheels and scratch built a brush guard... Then my boss went into to hospital, and I was forced into performing his job and mine... so she then sit like this from January til about a 4 weeks ago... because of being behind from his absence, and the refusal to hire anyone new, overtime has become a way of life... so I've been piecing her together 10 mins here and there a time... and she's almost ready to be unveiled... Here is the last shot before I put her under glass... Thanks for looking...

That looks good. I need me one of those.

Awesome job on this one, Mike.

Awesome job. Very nicely done

Very nicely done.

Very nicely done

Very nicely done

Fabulous start. Can't wait to see them come together

Congratulations!

Nice job. I'm enjoying following along.

Dang... I may have to just withdraw from the build now.. Dang fine job so far.

I figure until they left to go home, none of them knew anything either... And until May, nobody... Revell, The folks that bought them, or us... will know anything. Besides, they had a little more on their minds than giving us a statement. And rightly so...

Holy cow, Joe... You really knocked this outta the park. Ive enjoyed following along on this one... always do... Dang fine job, bro!

Here it is folks, fresh from the mailbox. I know it's just the Snow Plow kit with an added gunrack, camouflage decals and bigger wheels and tires... but it's got a gunrack, camo decals and bigger wheels and tires

Everything is looking good guys. I finally made a SMALL bit of progress on the Datsun... Everything I wanted to be flat black is. Just barely beat the rain. Lol... Some of my parts have some serious warpage... Gotta see if I can get that worked out.

Looking good so far. Keep it going.

So far you like it? So far I like it, too. Looking dang fine, Mike.

I'm in with the Revell big game GMC... Its on the way. I'll post up a pic a soon as I have it.

Wow... Looking sweet. Dang fine job bro.