martinfan5 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 This was brought to my attention , and I have to say, its pretty darn cool, just generally speaking of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hgbben Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 That was awesome. Great find Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Yeeee Haaaa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawson Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Funny Stuff ! Someone should build a '90 Mustang LX as a General Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ1971 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Awesome! Loved it! ???? Yeeee...Haaaaa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry P. Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 General Lee speaking, this topic doesn't interest me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 That would be fun to play with.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyBad Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 General Lee speaking, It was Awesome.. I'm running to walmart to find the body.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Hmm...imagine if in 1980 the Duke Boys had decided because of the gas crisis to downsize to an Omni O24 or Plymouth TC3...build a General Lee from one of the MPC or AMT kits of that era.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toner283 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 That was pretty cool. I want one. They did a pretty good job recreating some of the shots in the opening sequence to the Dukes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle potts Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 This is the first time I've seen the general make a jump without a cutaway shot so you couldn't see the fenders fold up on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoparWoman Jamie Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Real facts, before they went with the 1969 Dodge Charger as the General Lee, they did look at at few other car makes like a Camero and so on. They even had planed on having the flag on the hood and not the roof. It was then moved to the roof due to the hood area having indentations. Plus the color original was not orange.. it was confederated gray, but due to the cameras and the color they decided orange was the one. If you all say in that clip is the first time you get to see the fenders fold back under without a cutscene. You haven't really watch the episodes of the 1979 to 1985 series Dukes of Hazzard tv show. As in some of the episodes you do see the fenders crumple, buckle, fold under.. you even see the whole charger riffle and crumple on landings in quite afew of the episodes before they cut the scene. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuffone20 Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Well General Lee speaking I could do a '90 Mustang LX as a General Lee................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordairgtar Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 They could have used a RC car for the jump shots if they handled as good as this one does. Think of the Chargers that would have lived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 I was never into the whole General Lee thing like so many people,. I enjoyed all the stunts and such, but hate to see all of the Dodge Chargers lost to it all. Good video though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG NICKY Posted May 9, 2014 Share Posted May 9, 2014 that was fun to watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
always painting Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 That was a sick video. I watched a show about the dukes they had 10 cars they always used and I think they said that they destroyed 500 of them. Not to sure about the number cause it was a long time ago an I smoke way too much weed to remember the actual number. The first few seconds of the clip I thought it was the real car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
always painting Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Oh and I almost forgot the hood jump was supposed to be a full jump over the hood but his boot got hooked on the fender and made his slide across the hood. So they decided to keep the hood slide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoparWoman Jamie Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 That was a sick video. I watched a show about the dukes they had 10 cars they always used and I think they said that they destroyed 500 of them. Not to sure about the number cause it was a long time ago an I smoke way too much weed to remember the actual number. The first few seconds of the clip I thought it was the real car 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoparWoman Jamie Posted May 15, 2014 Share Posted May 15, 2014 Oh and I almost forgot the hood jump was supposed to be a full jump over the hood but his boot got hooked on the fender and made his slide across the hood. So they decided to keep the hood slide 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kruleworld Posted May 20, 2014 Share Posted May 20, 2014 Looks like an episode from Season 4 (they used some R/C cars for stunts) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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