Anybody still building General Lee's anymore? ???????

[skip68]

Lots of General Lee talk lately and was wondering if anyone is still building one?   I know they were fairly common years ago like when I did mine but it seems like it's fading away.  
 I wonder if the General Lee craze for buying or building one is finally at its end?    

[cbrestorations]

there being built, ran into a guy building a nice one just a week ago, i will be building one (gathering parts now) and i know there are many other young guys who want one aswell

[cincyboy]

I have wondered the same thing.  That show was a huge part of my life and who I am today.  I thought many years about building one but really like the round tail lights of the 68 so I went that route.    I hate to think it is coming to an end but with the current political correctness agenda it may be.

I lived in Ohio and Georgia for parts of my life.  Obviously in Georgia I believed I could drive a GL anywhere  and get thumbs up and hoots and hollering.  In Ohio though, speaking from my experience with family and even friends, there is a lack of understanding or tolerance of anything controversial, including the GL of late.  Heck they even felt they had to address it in the new version of the movie.   Sad really.   I hope people come to their senses.  

[myk]

Time for Holly-weird to pump out another DOH movie.  It'd be nice to see a studio have the balls to give the finger to the PC elite...

[c00nhunterjoe]

I wouldnt consider mine done, so i think i still count as building... lmao

[lukedukem]

I'm sure BK Auto is still building them, and maybe so is Hans HLPAG  

Luke

[skip68]

Kinda my thoughts.  Age, political correctness, the movie wasn't a family movie to inspire young boys and it's not likely to ever have a sequel is contributing.     Then there's the price factor which is huge.  Most young people can't afford to buy/build one.    

[skip68]

I see it still being huge overseas.   The confederate flag has no meaning to foreigners and it's still probably aired in other countries.   
BK auto,   
What a schmuck that tool was.   

[Mike DC]

  
                   
It's not a "trend" or "fad".  Never was.  It was a generation of DOH fans growing up.

There were lots of kids playing with toy GLs in the 1980s.  There were lots of broke teenage dreamers saying they wanted to build a GL in the 1990s.  Guess what?  Those were the same kids.  And in the 2000s they became adults & got real jobs with disposable income.    

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Plenty of kids & broke teenage dreamers lust after Vin Diesel's Charger today . . . .

[Brock Lee]

There are so many out there now...

Truth be told, if I wasn't such a perfectionist and didn't have some sort of strange attachment to my car maintaining such an unusually large (by todays standards) amount of its original sheetmetal, I would de-Generalize mine. It would take a lot of labor to make mine suitable for an OEM finish. Its flaws are perfectly suitable for the GL uniform..so it stays.

[skip68]

  De-Generalization.     I love it. 
I know exactly what you mean though.  A General Lee can have flaws and most don't care.   

[lukedukem]

i think a 69 charger in "general" can have flaws and people don't care.

Luke

[myk]

Exactly.  I drove my car around with minor rust, faded paint, Jeep rims and a broken interior and it always got more attention than my friend's near perfect Nova SS.  Mopar magic, man...

[HPT BANDIT]

I'm currently building a GL. I hope to have it back on the road this summer... unless I have a heart attack waiting on the painter

[Brock Lee]

That orange paint is REALLY forgiving! That helps a lot!

[myk]

Kinda of a love it or hate it sort of color, though...

[crj1968]

i think a 69 charger in "general" can have flaws and people don't care.

Luke

Truth, even for 70's believe it or not.    

My last one was really rough but everywhere I went kids waved and people just had to look inside it....I'm not sure what they thought they would see exactly.

[tippytoe]

I picked up a 69 shell a couple months ago. It's dressed as a GL & I intend on keeping it that way. Hopefully get it roadworthy & enjoy it as is next summer.

[Ghoste]

There sure there are a lot of them for sale.

[jaak]

Although I haven't been working on it Lately (Doing body/paint on a 66 Nova right now), I am building a GL clone out of my 68.
I have all rust repair done, and have it in epoxy primer, need to do the body paint sometime.

[marshallfry01]

  Looking good there Jaak!!

When I finish college in the fall I'll be converting my 70 into a general or I'll be looking for a 69 to generalize.  There's a lot of shit to convert on a 70.....so I'll prolly sell or trade for a 69. 

[jaak]

Looking good there Jaak!!

When I finish college in the fall I'll be converting my 70 into a general or I'll be looking for a 69 to generalize.  There's a lot of shit to convert on a 70.....so I'll prolly sell or trade for a 69.  

Thanks, man! The tail panel needed replaced on this 68 anyways, and a member here gave me a screaming deal on an AMD tail panel he wasn't going to use, so I decided to convert this car to look like a 69. The guy I bought the car from gave me a NOS 68 tail panel with it... I sold it, along with the other 68 parts I wasn't going to use, I wound up getting all the 69 parts I needed (tail lights, grille center, misc trim, etc). Wound up getting all the stuff I need plus $95 dollars in the black, so I did pretty good. This was pretty much a plain jane 68 with no fender tag, so I figured it would be a perfect candidate for a GL conversion. I had to replace the floor pans, trunk floor, lower RH quarter, and RH valance cap... rest of the car was really solid. Like I said, got all metal work done, just need to do mud work, prep and paint.

[Daytona R/T SE]

Lots of General Lee talk lately and was wondering if anyone is still building one?   I know they were fairly common years ago like when I did mine but it seems like it's fading away.  
 I wonder if the General Lee craze for buying or building one is finally at its end?    

I dunno...

But, if anybody r-e-a-l-l-y wants a 15++ year old set of Jake's Decals...

[440]

Mine is so close yet so far.

The thing I can't believe is just how much the color changes in different light.

[myk]

That's what sucks about orange; during the day or early evening it's the highest impact color of all, but try parking under street lights at night and it looks like garbage...