MoparWoman Jamie

They started in 1978 with the filming, aired it on tv in Jan 1979. They did start with the car being a 1968, in the 1st episode in Season 7 "Happy Birthday General Lee" explaining to folks how the duke boys got the General or came to have him. Waylon Jeggings the shows narrator refers at the junkyard scene when the boy's are looking at the charger. He says "That led the boys up to that old wreck of a '68 charger" . The car they pull out of the junkyard drive way is really a stunt car General Lee that had been jump an landed on the front end to hard. Because the Ditch scene an that scene damage doesn't line up at all, the driver door isn't even bent either on the car they are pulling with the tow truck. Now what if they had gone with the Camero like they was originally planing on doing. The car would have falling apart on the landings I think more worst. Could you just think of how many people would be upset over the Camero's? LOL.

For your info, they was originally going to go with a Camero painted confederated gray with the flag on the hood not the roof. But they wanted something that was alittle more muscler.. an Gray on camera was alittle hard to see the color of also.

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That has already been done..

That car is a rebodyed car.. The guy that overseen the restort chopped the original Lee1 up an sold it off. All that is on the auction is the vin# an firewall is all from the original Lee1. Look it up on facebook also, you will see what I mean.

Having a headliner issue LOL. The last one I made, I cut the interior lights to far back..

Temp 1 at trying to install the first headliner.. At this point, I knew I made a mistake an used the wrong kind of glue.. oops. So I waited too the elmers glue had set up an dried an I then took an removed the headliner back out much easier an with no mess either from glue. I did make another temp on a 4th headliner an used spray glue which worked very very well.. I get photos today of that an post them soon as I can.

The roof headliner starts to come into play now too

Sun visors also getting alittle more ready too.. The start of trail an error's..

I then broke out the fabric that had been gotten for this project an the fun begin.. A templet was made also

Good morning you all, well I was alittle busy last night an yesterday evening working on this project. Been working on the headliner an sun visors.. Then I hit the piece with a coat of Flat Black by ColorPlace

Lighting the interior up now with the driver side doom light as test run

Mounting the light bases into the rood piece Another mock up

Now here is where the lights started to come into play at. The rear seat doom lights

Here is the roof piece, having stuff added to it.

Sorry for keeping you all waiting, had afew things to do. Anyways here is some more progress photos.. Looking down at the driver side door. You can see I'm also working on the door jam area as well.

Also just for the record, Did you all know that Chris Myer "Vance Duke" past away afew months back.. this info is for any Dukes fans on here that likes Season 5 (I like it here an there).

Was there not real car stunts being done in Season 5? yes, that's is where my answer came for. Look at all the other season's before Season 5 stunt work an you will see Season 5 had some of the best done in it. But to clear things up though politely, I was not answering for the miniature stuff at all. But I do understand what you mean by my first sentence though in my original reply in this thread.

There will be another update tonight sometime.. recharging the camera battery. To those of you that had comment, thanks. I'm at a puzzle right now (making a choice) on the interior headliner part pattern.

I didn't say all the stunts was the best... now did I? lol. I only said season 5 mostly had the best stunts in. I did not mean to include the miniature stuff though as I agree with you on that part.

To be honest the best stunt work was done in Season 5 of the Dukes of Hazzard. But alittle fact, did you know that the scripts was already typed up for the characters Bo & Luke Duke? Yep. They just cross out the names was all an wrote in "Coy & Vance" duke was all. Coy above Bo's, Vance's above Luke's. They wouldn't let the two new guys Chris or Bryon do like Tom an John did though. They had them read from the script an say word for word I do belive. With John an Tom, they could take and inpervise the lines an twist them to make them work. WB wouldn't let C&V do this though. That's why the episodes seem abit strange for. Now if John an Tom did this.. the series would have looked like what happen in season 5 though. Bo an Luke walked off the set due to royalty issues from WB not giving them enough doe ray me on the Dukes of Hazzard items that WB was selling back then. If you watch the other season's an notice Rosco was missing, or Cooter or characters going missing was due to issues from WB also an the cast members not agreeing on things an working things out. But Season 5 was the odd season though for sure for the Dukes of Hazzard. Nea, they are still trying to put the Police academy back together after his last visit! LOL

Here is the roof panel with the rear interior light housings just temp glued in place to see how they will look. Plus afew mock ups as well..

Here is the side arm supports for the visors. The making of the new sun visors

Okay, I been working on the interior top roof panel.. Been building the working sun visors, plus working on the interior doom light plus the two rear interior lights that will sit behind the seats. For these lights i used off road light housings that I got at my local hobby shop out in town. They seem to turn out nice for the part. The doom light lense is a tail light lense for a truck I think. i had to do some triming down on it as well. The interior roof panel The visors middle support base The interior doom light lense, an test fitting for fitment

Okay, getting alittle work done on it.. will try to post afew photos soon as I can. Thank you all.