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.