MoparWoman Jamie

Chris, man, I love watching the updates on your build here man. Your doing one heck of a might fine craftsmen job at the build so far!

Looking very darn great so far!

The dio looks very very good to me, If I had to pick anything, it would be that the car is setting to low in the front as if it was going to nose dive into the water. The front end needs to be up more, the dirt mond mid peak should be lower. Then it would look like the car is shooting off the dirt embankment and flying. PS they only used 300 69 Chargers for the tv show. and over 20+ is still around yet! Dodge made over 250,000? Chargers in 1969 and a little more in 1969.

I'm working on one. Should be done in the Fall.

and people say these kits don't come out nice, I have to disagree... If you take the time to build it right, you can make any kit look down right great. I think this build is looking great so far, I too love the color of it.

I did get both sides done, and got the grill frame bolt holders done and on as well. I hope you all enjoyed this update, comments are always welcome towards the project.

Just a primer to see where I was at and what needed work yet, working on an all white surface does get hard to see what needs work yet LOL

Okay been at this project along with a few others in the evenings this week.

Thanks man for the kind comment!

You got part of the story correct, that scene was for him to walk over the hood and jump in the pass side door window. Instead they wax the hood way to much, park the General Lee (Lee3) at a angle. John (Bo) came down over the hill and smack the driver side door and went for the door handle and fast realized he had to go for the window (you can see this on screen as well) and Tom (Luke) he was pose to walk over the hood, that's why he jump up on the hood for was to walk over it. But as he bailed up onto the hood and his right foot hit the hood. Due to the hood being heavy waxed, he right foot went out from under him making him do the famous hood slide all the way cross the hood and braking the radio antenna off with his right arm. He broke the antenna right off above the base causing the broken part on the fender slicing his arm open 5 inches. You can hear him on screen give out a gust of sound as he came off the hood and his feet hit the ground. That's why his right shirt sleeve was torn for as he spond around to jump head first into the pass side window of Lee3 for. Also, to clear something up, in the 5th episode High Octane, when Cooter is under the General Lee and spooks Uncle Jesse. You see a smash in right hand tail side. That damage happen when the General Lee (Lee3) rammed the Alanta potrol car after the famous Luke Duke hood slide was done. You see when the stunt driver rammed the potrol car with the General Lee, the General's right pass side took on a good blow and damage hard enough to in fact spend that potrol car all the way around cause the tail end of that very potrol car to in fact smack the General's pass side rear tail end cause that smash in damage we see in High Octane. Also how did Cooter know about the burnt out tail light in High Octane on the General? Easy, there was an addinal scene to the opening shot of the episode that didn't get film. The scene called for Cooter chasing or racing the Duke boys into town. He was pose to fall behind the General and notice the burnt out tail light and then they jump the flat bed trailer and he was pose to lay down his dirt bike and slide under the flatbed trailer but the stunt was to dangerous for the stuntman as I heard the guy tried it and got hurt. But the scene didn't get film though. Only the jumping of the flatbed did though. There was a few angled camera shots of the jump filmed which appeared in a later episode when John (Bo) was off at Nascar and Tom (Luke) was driving the General and a road crew in that episode had the road block on one side and a unitly trailer was park on the right hand side and Luke had to hit it to jump a trailer blocking the road. The High Octane jump different jump angel was recycled into that episode where you can see the General with a full stunt cage take a very very bad tail end smack on the road as the car landed trunk first and the car crumple up in the rear and front.

Not all the Chargers was infact scrap, believe it or not but over 20+ Real General Lee's lived after the show ended in 1985. Over 300 General's was built for the show by 5 body shops back in the 1979 - 1985. Before WB started removing body panels off the chargers, the cars was taken to scrap yards, and after they trucks left, the damage cars got repainted and sold off by the workers of the scarp yards. So those Generals are out there some where floating about. A few has been found. Afew of the chargers also was repainted and used in films after 1985. Forever Young was one of the films, Gladiator with Ken W was another.. ect ect. Heat of the Night has a General repainted Blue in it. The 1st two GA potrol cars are still around yet also.

I hope you all enjoyed this small update, comments are always welcome towards the project.

An update. I'm working on the front end right now

More detail, I hope you all enjoyed this small update.

Then I looked and I rwalized things was to small. So I decided to start on the one side which is the pass side, again. Engraving and got it looking good

Adding some more detail The driverside

I decided to take a few days off the other day from the semi truck build and get a few small things taking care of on this project as well. I got the new camera in, been working with it trying to get use to the new camera. Anyways I jump to the front of the front end clip that I been tickering with. I got alot of the detail work in the center area but still have a few small things to add yet. I been using a real charger as ref on figuring out where to locate some of the panel designs at. The front clip is a Revell one that I am correcting. Anyways on to the photos.. Drawing on the locations, in rough stage The top plate which is the grill frame piece

Hi Ben, Your welcome for me sharing the build progress on here. Yea a lot of work has wsent into this so far but the thing is I am enjoying myself though with the project. Your question is a good one also and to answer it, yes I do have a few other projects all the time on the bench to break things up. I always like to keep at least two projects on the bench. I can relate to having difficult issues with a project at times, by jumping to another project for even a short time can help figure things out on other parts of a project.

Here you can see I got more gridded out I have some clean up to do here and there but it's worth it I hope you all enjoyed this update.

Here you can see that I started to grind down the front top area of the mount

Making sure things ar lining up right now, using a t-square as well. My make shift out side work bench Making things are square

Started to line up the pass side mount The rear front mounts in rough stage The front mounting brackets

Hi you all, been under the weather a little here. Tinkering on the project. Waiting for a new camera to arrive.. old one kinda started to go out on me last week. Been doing alot of searching online for the right photos with the leaf shackle mount that what the real rig photos I have of shows only part of. I search and searched online while waiting for the camera to see if I could find a photo on another rig from a different view. Findley found two last night. Anyways on with some photos.. Started to tack weld the pieces on now