AutoRama GL jump...

[Baldwinvette77]

Maybe old.. but was 4 hours ago..  

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/02/spectacular_general_lee_stunt.html

[Dino]

Spectacular? Not the term I would've used but okay.

[hemi-hampton]

Here it is in slow motion. LEON.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-DYBfKYk6E

[JR]

I'd actually be impressed if these guys actually started using catch ramps and driving the car away instead of just chucking it up in the air and letting it come crashing back down.

Kinda breaks the illusion of theater when the General breaks into a million pieces upon landing, doesn't it?

[cbrestorations]

wouldnt a full tube chassis like a stadium truck with a charger body set over it be much better...could be used over and over and hell might even survive a jump if it lands right

[lukedukem]

Here is the interview after with the driver. At the end they do a short walk around. Most of the car is fake. Really fake. The tailight panel is a picture. The chrome is aluminum foil.

https://youtu.be/GCyRL6W7kR8

Luke

[71 SE3834V]

I'd actually be impressed if these guys actually started using catch ramps and driving the car away instead of just chucking it up in the air and letting it come crashing back down.

When I saw it on the local news I thought "Well, they wrecked another '69!"

[marshallfry01]

The cars they use are usually so rusted that I'm afraid the driver is going to get hurt.... They have build videos on YouTube. Seriously though, the cars they use are not restorable.

[Baldwinvette77]

They starting with this for the autorama car

[VegasCharger]

Yeeeeeee Hawwwwwww!!!!

[Kern Dog]

Them Duke boys welded their doors shut....Whats this guys excuse ??   

[69rtsetracpac]

They starting with this for the autorama car

Looks better then the car I started with.

[Mopar Nut]

   Cardboard lights and foil trim

[Mike DC]

wouldnt a full tube chassis like a stadium truck with a charger body set over it be much better...could be used over and over and hell might even survive a jump if it lands right

The Knight Rider TV show tried a tube chassis & fiberglass Trans Am in the early 1980s.  It didn't fly well (too light), didn't look the same, still cost a lot, and wasn't as safe.  They were back wrecking real T/As (brand new ones) before long.  




The sheetmetal crumpling is the only thing absorbing the impact on a car jump.  A stadium truck has big tires & a couple feet of suspension travel to swallow all that force.


The heavy weight is what makes the car fly so well.  For the same given speed & ramp, more weight means farther flight.  You can throw a golf ball farther than a ping-pong ball.  

[Mike DC]

I'd actually be impressed if these guys actually started using catch ramps and driving the car away instead of just chucking it up in the air and letting it come crashing back down.

Kinda breaks the illusion of theater when the General breaks into a million pieces upon landing, doesn't it?

At about 2:40:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl3jcXNql6s

[hemi-hampton]

If the pic is Huge & you can't find a smaller one just make it smaller yourself.

[RCCDrew]

I think the value of my car just went up. 

[Mike DC]

     

If the pic is Huge & you can't find a smaller one just make it smaller yourself.

Thanks.  I just swapped your small pic into my post. 

[Baldwinvette77]

They starting with this for the autorama car

Looks better then the car I started with.

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I think my car was slightly better... Slightly..but mine didn't come with a fender 

[hemi-hampton]

     

If the pic is Huge & you can't find a smaller one just make it smaller yourself.

Thanks.  I just swapped your small pic into my post. 

Yeah, I see that. LEON.

[6bblgt]

  "Nathan, if your father was fixed ..... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAcPIb6o2HY

[69wannabe]

I still love seeing the general in the air, as long as it isn't my charger flying through the air i'm pretty OK with it!!! 

[Hemi Guy]

Looks neat but gives me a knot it in my stomach. All I can think is man would I love to snatch a few pieces of that car before it takes off.....

[Baldwinvette77]

Looks neat but gives me a knot it in my stomach. All I can think is man would I love to snatch a few pieces of that car before it takes off.....

i think the only things really good on these cars are the bumpers, mirror and door handles, everything else is bondo or fake.. or both

Also welcome! 

[Chargen69]

wouldnt a full tube chassis like a stadium truck with a charger body set over it be much better...could be used over and over and hell might even survive a jump if it lands right

the problem with that is the driver would not fair so well.  the reason they went with the charger for the dukes in the first place was because of the unibody design, basically collapsed on landing.  a full frame car would transfer most of the energy of the crash into the driver.

if you think about it, most of the police cars got flipped or some other crash as compared to most of the generals jumps they tried to land flat.

[Mike DC]

Looks neat but gives me a knot it in my stomach. All I can think is man would I love to snatch a few pieces of that car before it takes off.....

What BaldwinVette77 said.

Aluminum foil tape in place of chrome trim, cardboard/sheetmetal grilles, printed decals for taillights, no dashboard/interior stuff to speak of, etc.  There isn't much left to take beyond the chassis running gear.  The drivetrain gets pulled out & re-used whenever possible.  Some of the bodies have been jumped more than once.

[Kern Dog]

I'm sure that the reason the Police car jumps looked worse was because the show writers wanted the inept Rosco-Enos-Cletus look like they didn't have the skills that Bo and Luke had.
The choice for the Charger was not based on the uni-body design. It was because Dodge and Plymouth were really popular in the south where the showwas supposed to take place.

[cbrestorations]

I'm sure that the reason the Police car jumps looked worse was because the show writers wanted the inept Rosco-Enos-Cletus look like they didn't have the skills that Bo and Luke had.
The choice for the Charger was not based on the uni-body design. It was because Dodge and Plymouth were really popular in the south where the showwas supposed to take place.

that and they knew the charger was f***ing awesome...

[TommyGun]

The cop cars were uni-body also.

[F8-4life]

^75-78 coronets are uni-bodys as well.  When they did jump them you can see the front clips fold up on impact.

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-Dodge-Charger-/172558902984?forcerrptr=true&hash=item282d4fe6c8:g:5lAAAOSwdGFYuPLk&item=172558902984

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[c00nhunterjoe]

The wheels, cb antenna and driver mirror are really all thats salvagable. Lol

[Mike DC]

 
People don't buy (recently) wrecked GLs to restore.  They are purely conversation pieces.

[ht4spd307]

 a few emotions i went through when i saw this:'(   what a waste

[Charger_Fan]

I'm surprised there's a confederate flag on the roof.

[c00nhunterjoe]

a few emotions i went through when i saw this:'(   what a waste

There was nothing in this car to restore. Didnt even have a title. They had to build a frame under it to even mount a rear and drivetrain. I think he said 5 gallons of bondo went into this one... lol.

[chargerboy69]

I do not see this bringing big money. . even on E-Bay.  Though I am speculating, the owner probably sees it as his golden ticket.

[GordonGriggs]

I am confused. Everyone said this car was not worth restoring before it was jumped. Now in the add it says it could be restored.

[RCCDrew]

I wish they would destroy the cop cars and keep the chargers.

[Lennard]

I am confused. Everyone said this car was not worth restoring before it was jumped. Now in the add it says it could be restored.

Everything can be restored.  It's just a matter of $$$$$$.

[Mike DC]

Everything can be restored.  It's just a matter of $$$$$$.

Yep. 


Nobody had been willing to put the money & labor into it before it was wrecked.  Probably nobody will now either. 

Laugh, cry, whatever. 

[BDF]

I am waiting to see if this makes it to the "Delusional Seller" thread.
 

[tan top]

I am waiting to see if this makes it to the "Delusional Seller" thread.
 

   haha funny you say that !    was just going to type  what ever happened to the delusional charger buyer/ bidder thread ..... needs going in that thread where ever that one has gone ... rather than a delusional seller    

 good luck to the seller getting what he can for it  

may be worth something to a diehard DOH fan      .....

I bet all the dealers ....  flippers ....out there    etc are glued to this auction , ready to ad a few extra zeros to their chargers for sale , depending on the out come of this ......  
i'm just waiting for it to get bid up to 15k  

[BDF]

I am waiting to see if this makes it to the "Delusional Seller" thread.
 

   haha funny you say that !    was just going to type  what ever happened to the delusional charger buyer/ bidder thread ..... needs going in that thread where ever that one has gone ... rather than a delusional seller    

 good luck to the seller getting what he can for it  
RIGHT!
Buyer beware? This IS one of the most 'transparent?' E-bay ads I've seen.
I am very curious what the RESERVE on something like this would be...

may be worth something to a diehard DOH fan      .....

I bet all the dealers ....  flippers ....out there    etc are glued to this auction , ready to ad a few extra zeros to their chargers for sale , depending on the out come of this ......  
i'm just waiting for it to get bid up to 15k  

[BDF]

Well that reply got scrambled up.

Still working on the 'quote' / 'preview' stuff here.

[JB400]

I guess some people just can't settle for watching the shows on DVD?

[lukedukem]

Up to $4,250.00 and reserve not met. Why 
35 bids, really?

I wonder where the footage from the go pro on the roof is. I'd like to see that

Luke

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  relisted


http://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-Dodge-Charger-/172560464463?hash=item282d67ba4f:g:5lAAAOSwdGFYuPLk&vxp=mtr

[Bobs69]

I'd actually be impressed if these guys actually started using catch ramps and driving the car away instead of just chucking it up in the air and letting it come crashing back down.

Kinda breaks the illusion of theater when the General breaks into a million pieces upon landing, doesn't it?

Agreed.


Like come on guys, lets bring a little precision to the screen.

Have a catch ramp drive away and do a power turn with tires smoking for drive by.

[Mike DC]

Like come on guys, lets bring a little precision to the screen.

Have a catch ramp drive away and do a power turn with tires smoking for drive by.

I used to feel that way years ago.  But after seeing some of the early live GL jumps in person (and up close, not 70 yards away behind a NASCAR fence) I started feeling differently.  

You can watch GL jumps on TV/youtube any time.  What's different about seeing them live is that the sheer mechanical violence ISN'T sanitized out of it.  You gain a whole new perspective on the TV footage.  Landing-ramped jumps are impressive in a different way but I think there's room for a few car-wrecking GL jumps now and then.  IMO you've missed out if you are a big 'Dukes' fan and you have never seen a huge car-smashing GL jump in person.  


I would rather see them keep doing real car-wrecking jumps, but use some crap POS car like a Caprice Classic or Crown Vic.  The hours of bondo & patchwork on these GL stunts cars could be spent making some other car look a bit more like a '69 Charger.  It doesn't need to be that close.  Just use some sheetmetal & pop rivets to get it nearer to an overall Charger shape.  The orange GL uniform will do the rest.  

[68RT440]

These outfits that put on the jumps should try and get a sponsorship from AMD. Then all they would have to do is build a tube chassis and pop rivet all of the sheet metal onto the chassis...similar to a circle track car. They could even incorporate the push bar into the chassis to help protect the front end. Then they could jump, hammer, bondo, repint, etc. over and over until the panel is not usable anymore...then just rivet on a new AMD piece...

[hemi-hampton]

Wouldn't a tube chassis bend after a NASTY jump like that?  LEON.

[Mike DC]

Wouldn't a tube chassis bend after a NASTY jump like that?  scratchchin shruggy LEON.
Posted on: Today at 04:31:19 PM Posted by: 68RT440

Yes.

The crumpling unibody is the only thing absorbing the impact on a jump like this.  The wheels get slammed up into the chassis so hard that the springs/shocks might as well not even be there.

Even if you could get the suspension to resist more, and you could guarantee that the wheels would hit the ground first (not the front or rear body overhangs) there still isn't enough wheel-travel distance.  Stadium trucks use 24-36".  A Charger has about 7" in front and about 11" in back.  And then there's the tiny volume of air inside a 15x7" wheel's tire, which is not enough for this job even if you pump the pressure up pretty high . . .

You can make a jump-proof vehicle but it won't look anything like a '69 Charger. 

[Dino]

Either the car absorbs the massive energy, or the driver does. Take your pick.

[Chargen69]

Either the car absorbs the massive energy, or the driver does. Take your pick.

thank you, that is what i was trying to say earlier

[tan top]

sold  $5900  , good luck to the seller   

every second generation that's for sale in  the world had just had its price increased   

[Mike DC]

    
$5900 is not its Dodge-Charger-raw-material-for-restoration value.  Jumped GLs have been selling pretty well as souvenirs ever since they started being jumped at live events.  This isn't the highest figure to be paid for one.

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$5900 is not its Dodge-Charger-raw-material-for-restoration value.  Jumped GLs have been selling pretty well as souvenirs ever since they started being jumped at live events.  This isn't the highest figure to be paid for one.

oh really , never knew that ...    , i'm surprised , thought only the real GLs & movie cars would of had any monetary value .....   each to their own   

[Mike DC]

       
If it was jumped at a memorable event, then yeah, that tends to add some value.  Just launching it off a plywood ramp in your backyard won't do anything for it.

The pool of buyers is limited though.  If Hans Ludke started jumping GLs for a profit then he would run out of big-money buyers pretty fast.