Sickening

[TylerCharger69]

Tell me this doesn't make you cringe.....Ought to be a crime!!!

[Rolling_Thunder]

ouch...    how the hell do you roll a charger anyway ?

[4402tuff4u]

I always thought about how they destroy these vehicles in movies. I would think that they would fabricate a mold (like they do for boats) and cast out a whole bunch of fiberglass body Chargers for the movie and mount them on other less desirable models. I guess is less cost effective.....it just sucks to see a Charger in that condition just for a movie shot!

[bull]

Looks like the door handle might be ok. Might be...

[694spdRT]

Isn't that one of the cars from the original series?

[Dale The Bold]

Yes, it's from the original series.  If it hadn't been sent to the crusher, it'd probably be worth a lot of money in that condition.

[greenpigs]

Tell me this doesn't make you cringe.....Ought to be a crime!!!

Not much, mine is safe and sound.

[Crazy Larry]

hey, did you guys see the ebay auction a while back for one of the wrecked General Lee's from the new "Dukes of Hazzard" - it was the one that was sent into the air and dropped on the highway.

I couldn't believe it went for $15,000 or something like that.

[Crazy Larry]

Wanna see real sickening of Charger's bitng the dust....

http://theonenetwork.com/movies/The_Dukes_of_Hazzard/5494/On_The_Set__General_Lee_Stunts_300.html

watch and cringe..... 

[greenpigs]

Ungh and I just ate, yeah that was hard to watch them launch the car on the highway. Someone posted that before but it has been awhile.

[Mike DC]

This pic was from a show where they purposely pipe-rolled a General Lee.  (Bad guys wrecking their "decoy" General Lee.)

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The fiberglass body idea has been discussed before. 

But the car's steel unibody being destroyed is about the only thing helping the driver walk away from the jump/wreck in one piece.  With the center of the car rollcaged heavily, the rest of the entire unibody functions like a giant "crumple zone" to absorb the impact.  The stunts crews purposely refrain from welding up any extra rollbars or bracing in the front & rear ends of the cars, even though the center of the car cabin will be absolutely bomb-proof.


(jump-car General Lee from Dukesfest '04. Check out the homemade floorpans!)



Stunt drivers generally don't like dealing with 'glass body cars for that reason.  A car "jump" is basically just a "crash" that happens to land wheels-down.  They prepare the stunt car almost exactly the same way for a jump stunt as they would for a rollover stunt.  (And plenty of big jumps have ended up as rollovers anyway.)

One of the "Dukes" stuntmen was once telling me that he hated rolling anything other than steel-topped cars & trucks.  He mentioned rolling over an army Jeep the starting sequence of the "A-Team," and hitting his head so hard it hurt for a week.  He swore he was never rolling a Jeep again.

                   

[Bandit72]

ahhh...good ol bash the dukes of hazzard thread... 



later

[BigBlockSam]

put it on ebay , you'll get big bucks for it. Rene

[bull]

This pic was from a show where they purposely pipe-rolled a General Lee.  (Bad guys wrecking their "decoy" General Lee.)

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The fiberglass body idea has been discussed before. 

But the car's steel unibody being destroyed is about the only thing helping the driver walk away from the jump/wreck in one piece.  With the center of the car rollcaged heavily, the rest of the entire unibody functions like a giant "crumple zone" to absorb the impact.  The stunts crews purposely refrain from welding up any extra rollbars or bracing in the front & rear ends of the cars, even though the center of the car cabin will be absolutely bomb-proof.


(jump-car General Lee from Dukesfest '04. Check out the homemade floorpans!)



Stunt drivers generally don't like dealing with 'glass body cars for that reason.  A car "jump" is basically just a "crash" that happens to land wheels-down.  They prepare the stunt car almost exactly the same way for a jump stunt as they would for a rollover stunt.  (And plenty of big jumps have ended up as rollovers anyway.)

One of the "Dukes" stuntmen was once telling me that he hated rolling anything other than steel-topped cars & trucks.  He mentioned rolling over an army Jeep the starting sequence of the "A-Team," and hitting his head so hard it hurt for a week.  He swore he was never rolling a Jeep again.

                   

What's the blue thing on the floor?

[Mike DC]

I dunno, I think it was just a little fan or something laying on the floor. 

It wasn't part of the stunt stuff or anything.  It wasn't there when they had the car running later in the day.

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[rt green]

portable shop fan

[Drache]

hey, did you guys see the ebay auction a while back for one of the wrecked General Lee's from the new "Dukes of Hazzard" - it was the one that was sent into the air and dropped on the highway.

I couldn't believe it went for $15,000 or something like that.

One of the member's of the board was the one selling the car. Even he didn't expect to get THAT much for it!

[Charger Aficionado]

  I had a chance to buy a '68 Fiberglass body off of eBay for $1,300, and I should've done it...  It was a vintage race car...

[Silver R/T]

thats sad

[Crazy Larry]

hey, did you guys see the ebay auction a while back for one of the wrecked General Lee's from the new "Dukes of Hazzard" - it was the one that was sent into the air and dropped on the highway.

I couldn't believe it went for $15,000 or something like that.

One of the member's of the board was the one selling the car. Even he didn't expect to get THAT much for it!

I remember a number of other Chargers being in the background of the wrecked "Dukes" Charger - could it be Travis, King of "Chargerland" who had it on sale?

[Mike DC]

Yeah, Travis had the jump car from the highway.  (And it also did the better one of the two Comite river jumps, as well doing a test-jump for finding the setup of the Courthouse jump.)  He dug up up some of the movie cars for the crew when they were filming last year.

I was surprised the price went that high too.  I'm mostly just sentimentally attached to the old TV series.  The highway car would have been very cool to have, but just not $15K cool to me.

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[HAZZARDJOHN]

That is sad, But you have to put it in Context, That pic was in 1980-85, These things were just used cars then. If I started a show where I wrecked a Third Gen camaro every show, noone would say a thing. How many here Bought there chargers around then for a couple hundred bucks? I bought mine in 02 for $4000 and it is a Hulk of a car that needs $10000+ in work. What a difference 20 years makes, Huh. I was watching a documentary on the Tucker Car the other day and saw the one that was rolled and totalled during testing and it made me cringe, knowing what that car would be worth today. I guarantee there will be a day when people are saying the same things about a 1994 Chrysler lebaron that you guys are about a charger.

As far as the movie, goes, I never supported them wrecking any chargers to make that trash. Although one can only hope that the ones that got totalled were the ones they bought HLPAG, which started out totalled anyway!   I hope they don't make a sequal unless they are going to stay true to the dukes Legacy of family values. No more  destroying chargers for rubbish.

Just my .02Cents.

~HJ

[6pkrunner]

Whoa - if you didn't like that picture, they thank God you weren't around the junkyards during the late 60s early 70s. rows and rows and rows of cars much worse than that one. The largest junkyard in our province used to lay them out according to model, they were that large. At most any time they could have 40-50 Chargers stacked up, 50-80 road runners, 50-60 Coronet Super Bees or RTs. When the E bodys came on the scene, they were smashed up at a phenominal rate.
But remember that these were only cars then. Although we loved them dearly there were tons around and if you had the coins you could order a new one from the dealer, or go through page upon page of the used car ads. A high performance Mopar was as common as a Civic or such today. The hemi cars were pretty rare, but 440+6, 440+4, 383, 340 cars were very common.

[Chargen69]

I guarantee there will be a day when people are saying the same things about a 1994 Chrysler lebaron that you guys are about a charger.
~HJ

[41husk]

sell that baby to HLPAG, looks like an easy father and son project