Them Dang Duke Boys Wrecked Daisys Jeep, They've got Daisy, all rilled Up

[Nick Winter]

Well in the beginig of the goin' ons of this here tale of them Dukes, the General Lee Gots swamped, so them Duke Boys borrowed Daisy's Jeep, while chasin' them boys that Boss Hogg and Roscoe done hired to fake rob Boss' bank, and blame it on them Duke Boys, them bad fellers done made the Dukes wreck cousin Daisy's jeep, so they called Cooter, he didn't have his wrecker runnin' so he borrowed one from his buddy, well fished them Dukes and Ol' Daisy's jeep out of the ditch and hauled em' back to the Hazzard Garage.

Any way I got this Jeep off Bob Baunman, it's the 2005 movie release, I'm going to use some parts from my old built up that I did when I was around 8-9, when I first started building. I managed to pull some extra parts out that I can use on my two upcoming jeep I'm gonna build, My Jeep FJ route van, and Jeep Dispatcher postal jeep.

Here's Daisy's TV Jeep

Ol' Cooter haulin' Daisy's Jeep back to the Garage (My old jeep)

Edited September 3, 2009 by Dukefan69'

[Nick Winter]

Ok now the new kit, Oh forgot to tell what daisy's jeep was on the TV show, the very first was a 1980 Jeep CJ-7 Golden Eagle,

Oh here are the parts I can use on my other jeeps.

[Jordan White]

I like how in the pics of the interior (from the show), one shows a column-shifted automatic and the other shows a floor-shifted manual.

[Guest Mustang3.8]

Great start, 'cuz.

[Nick Winter]

I like how in the pics of the interior (from the show), one shows a column-shifted automatic and the other shows a floor-shifted manual.

I can explain this I actually emailed the mechanic that was responsibe for the cars for The Dukes of Hazzard, and was told this

There were 309 GL's

aproxamitly 400 patrol cars

15 Uncle Jesse's Pickups

20 Boss Hogg Cadillac's

2 Daisy's '74 roadrunners

5 Daisy's '71 Satellitte Sebrings

7 cooter's wreckers, and pickups

and Over 25 Daisy's jeeps.

Great start, 'cuz.

Thanks Kevin.

[Nick Winter]

Well Cooter gots Daisy's Jeep up on the grease rack and noticed a craked frame so Cooter tore down the Jeep and started from the ground up.

Any way back to reality, I airbrushed the seats with Testors flat brown, I made a dash board top and painted it aswell as I made some sun visors and painted those. I got a chance to day to do my painting so I painted all 6 colors, plastikote semi gloss White, armour coat & duplicolor black, testors gloss light blue, testors gloss red, testors silver, and testors flat brown. I assembled the transfer case, grlle and roll bar, I decaled the hood fully and cleared the hood rollbar and grille.

Cooter pic's

Airbrushed interior parts

Finished transfer case

Painted silver parts

Painted black parts

[Nick Winter]

More pictures

Finished grille

Cleared parts

Finished spare tire

Finished hood

Hood comparison

Body comparison before decals

[Nick Winter]

Well The Duke boys came in the Garage to find Daisy's jeep almost like new, But Cooter asleep on the grease rack. Here's what Cooter has finished since the Duke Boys told me last.

Daisy's real dash

My dash wih scratch built foam top.

I cleared all the body parts with two coats of clear.

[Nick Winter]

[B_rad88]

thats a really nice nick! keep up the good work!

[Nick Winter]

thats a really nice nick! keep up the good work!

Thanks.

Just to clear something up, were the clear pool is on the left front fender I've just fixed that.

[Nick Winter]

Ok Well I found Cooter asleep so I woke him He said " Come back in a little while and I'll have some more done."

So here's what I found done,

Back to reality, I mixed the proper engine color for my jeep, 2 shades lighter than ford engine blue

ok from the left to right, Left Testors Gloss light blue, center Testors Gloss bright blue , Right Jeep engine blue

I scratch built the steering column and a turn signal lever

More info and pictures in next post.

Edited September 2, 2009 by Dukefan69'

[Nick Winter]

Ok I also got a coat of my homemade Jeep blue on my jeep engine

I painted some of the black details needed

And I assembled the chassis,

Enjoy.

[Guest Mustang3.8]

Great work, 'cuz. Keep it up.

[Nick Winter]

Great work, 'cuz. Keep it up.

Thanks, and I will.

[Jordan White]

Now remember Cooter, that dang 'ol turn signal lever sits on that there left side of the steering column!

[B_rad88]

wow! that looks really good!

[62rebel]

coming along very nicely, Nick; one fault of the original kit is the very fragile axles. be very careful handling this when it's finished! AMT/MPC abused their licensing referring to this Jeep as accurate for Daisy's, though... Monogram's CJ7 would be closer if you could find one. great job so far with this, get it finished! more pics!

[Jordan White]

AMT/MPC abused their licensing referring to this Jeep as accurate for Daisy's, though...

Oh I agree, since the kit is actually a CJ-5 (which I'm sure you figured out already!)

[CFnutcase]

I can explain this I actually emailed the mechanic that was responsibe for the cars for The Dukes of Hazzard, and was told this

There were 309 GL's

aproxamitly 400 patrol cars

15 Uncle Jesse's Pickups

20 Boss Hogg Cadillac's

2 Daisy's '74 roadrunners

5 Daisy's '71 Satellitte Sebrings

7 cooter's wreckers, and pickups

and Over 25 Daisy's jeeps.

Thanks Kevin.

Hey Kevin, I thought you might b interested, in knowing I own general number 53 AND roscoes car number 53, thats right both cars are number 53, I am working on getting the 71 roadrunner that Daisy drove in the first season bought now and one of her jeeps that was used later in the series for my wife to drive. Jim

[Nick Winter]

Now remember Cooter, that dang 'ol turn signal lever sits on that there left side of the steering column!

Well I talked to cooter and he said "I know, Ya'll just gimie a chance to fix it.

wow! that looks really good!

Thanks.

[Nick Winter]

coming along very nicely, Nick; one fault of the original kit is the very fragile axles. be very careful handling this when it's finished! AMT/MPC abused their licensing referring to this Jeep as accurate for Daisy's, though... Monogram's CJ7 would be closer if you could find one. great job so far with this, get it finished! more pics!

Thank you. I noticed that the first time around. Yeah I know, I looked for the last 3 years for the Revell CJ-7 but had no luck then this baby poped up and I was all over it, like stink on a turd. Thanks.

Oh I agree, since the kit is actually a CJ-5 (which I'm sure you figured out already!)

Yep, she's a CJ-5 but hey make do with what you have.

[Nick Winter]

Hey Kevin, I thought you might b interested, in knowing I own general number 53 AND roscoes car number 53, thats right both cars are number 53, I am working on getting the 71 roadrunner that Daisy drove in the first season bought now and one of her jeeps that was used later in the series for my wife to drive. Jim

It's Nick but I'll answer to Anything. ###### really, could you maybe get me some pictures of each car from any and every angle. Actually the roadrunner Daisy drove in the first five epsisodes is a '74, but are you talking about the '71 sattelitte sebring she drove the rest of the first season and part of the second. Wow.

[Nick Winter]

Well I came in here cooter had it, he had almost finished the body, but he was asleep again, that dang shade tree mechanic, always asleep on the job.

[Nick Winter]

Notice my correct steering column and steering wheel not to mention correct CB location.