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The jump of the Dana R/T General Lee (video)

Started by Wakko, April 30, 2006, 08:16:31 AM

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Wakko

April 30, 2006, 08:16:31 AM
There are not enough pissed off emoticons in this world to convey how infuriated I am upon watching this video.  Once again ignorance and money come together and produce nothing but senseless destruction.   :RantExplode: :RantExplode: :brickwall: :rant: :cussing: :mad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKrNhRda8js
Ian

'69 Basketcase, bluetooth powered

Boynton 236 F&AM

MassCharger73

#1
April 30, 2006, 08:23:46 AM
My dads a TV repair man, he has the ultimate set of tools. We can fix it !!   :icon_smile_dissapprove:
1973 Charger

chargerboy69

#2
April 30, 2006, 08:50:53 AM
WTF. . . That car is done. I cannot believe those people. What the hell are they thinking. That pisses me off. Another Charger wasted.
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A government big enough to give you everything you need, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.
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terrible one

#3
April 30, 2006, 08:55:43 AM
Sucks. So this is the 440 4 spd dana car that was on Ebay to be sold to someone after the jump?

Wakko

#4
April 30, 2006, 09:59:02 AM
Ian

'69 Basketcase, bluetooth powered

Boynton 236 F&AM

Troy

#5
April 30, 2006, 10:11:49 AM
It didn't sound like the crowd was very big. Hopefully they lost big $$$. I hate to lump people into groups but these events seem like they are targeted at the same people who watch NASCAR for the crashes and hockey for the fights. What a waste that it's considered "entertainment". The problem is that people keep paying and as long as there's money to be made someone will step in to take it no matter how much the fans complain. Seriously, on the show the GL almost always appeared to come out unscathed so if you were a true fan why would you want to see it get demolished?

Troy
Sarcasm detector, that's a real good invention.

TruckDriver

#6
April 30, 2006, 10:20:09 AM
If I said what I really feel right now, Troy would ban me from this site :flame:
PETE

My Dad taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" :P

PocketThunder

#7
April 30, 2006, 10:54:21 AM
It wasnt even a good jump... :-\
"Liberalism is a disease that attacks one's ability to understand logic. Extreme manifestations include the willingness to continue down a path of self destruction, based solely on a delusional belief in a failed ideology."

Telvis

#8
April 30, 2006, 12:21:28 PM
 :rotz:

Bandit72

#9
April 30, 2006, 12:22:51 PM
Quote from: PocketThunder on April 30, 2006, 10:54:21 AM
It wasnt even a good jump... :-\

thats what i was thinking
Daddy ran whiskey in a big black dodge
bought it at an auction at the masons lodge,
Johnson County Sherriff painted on the side,
just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside,
well him and my uncle tore that engine down,
I still remember that rumblin' sound.....

Charger1973

#10
April 30, 2006, 12:27:14 PM
wow.  whats was the point of that...  stupid people

MassCharger73

#11
April 30, 2006, 12:47:35 PM
Not that this is much better, but after the nose dive the 440 did, in the future they will want to use the small block cars to put on a " better " show.
1973 Charger

Bandit72

#12
April 30, 2006, 12:54:44 PM
Quote from: MassCharger73 on April 30, 2006, 12:47:35 PM
Not that this is much better, but after the nose dive the 440 did, in the future they will want to use the small block cars to put on a " better " show.

even in the original series most of there jump/stunt cars were the small block plain jane cars..

later  :icon_smile_cool:
Daddy ran whiskey in a big black dodge
bought it at an auction at the masons lodge,
Johnson County Sherriff painted on the side,
just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside,
well him and my uncle tore that engine down,
I still remember that rumblin' sound.....

JimShine

#13
April 30, 2006, 01:09:55 PM
I have a GL. I hope you guys understand not all of us clone owners (infact it seems like in this case most all of us) are against things like this.

Chargen69

#14
April 30, 2006, 01:17:41 PM
 ???

There isnt a point on earth that anybody could make that says that makes sense.


Thats like watching video of a fatal wreck

Charger1973

#15
April 30, 2006, 01:37:03 PM
Ive always wanted a General since I was a little kid, but dont support this at all, I think its the dumbest thing I have ever seen.  Whether it was the R/T or a 318 car makes no difference to me its still a Charger. 

2muchrust

#16
April 30, 2006, 01:40:42 PM
a$$holes should be f'in shot  :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :flame: :RantExplode: :RantExplode: :RantExplode:

derailed

#17
April 30, 2006, 02:22:37 PM
Just like the great Forest Gump once said, Stupid is, Stupid does

Bandit72

#18
April 30, 2006, 02:32:57 PM
i can accept the fact that in the early 80's warner brothers did wreck quite afew chargers because in the early 80's nobody really wanted them (for the most part)...so it would be kinda like taking a bunch of 85 dodge aries's and pushing them off a cliff and selling tickets...nobody would really care, but in 30 years other people might look at us like what the hell were they thinking!?!?!? But I agree now adays they shouldn't do it, i kinda understand when they did the big 25th aniversary (or whatever year it was) jump down in georgia....as the dukes is/and still is a very popular show with a HUGE number of fans...but they used a bondo buggy charger that i'm pretty sure there wasn't a usable part on the thing...that doesn't bother me TOO MUCH..but this recent thing where everyone thinks they need to get a charger and jump it is starting to get stupid...especially a real 440 4-speed DANA R/T....oh well guess i just wanted to get that out

later  :icon_smile_cool:
Daddy ran whiskey in a big black dodge
bought it at an auction at the masons lodge,
Johnson County Sherriff painted on the side,
just shot a coat of primer then he looked inside,
well him and my uncle tore that engine down,
I still remember that rumblin' sound.....

Arthu®

#19
April 30, 2006, 02:43:15 PM
 :rotz: what kind of jump was that? If you are going to waste it anyways why not just do a good one. I don't believe any of those General Lee jumps so far have resulted in a nice landing? I mean if you do it do it right or you might as wel don't. I can enjoy a good car jump it is pretty fun but I can enjoy seen a 80's K car just as much as a General Lee as it doesn't matter what flies through the air it is much more about the jump and the landing. This car was just wasted without a real purpose. What a waste of a perfectly good 440 4 spd car.

Arthur
Striving for world domination since 1986

472 R/T SE

#20
April 30, 2006, 02:49:24 PM
Quote from: Bandit72 on April 30, 2006, 12:22:51 PM
Quote from: PocketThunder on April 30, 2006, 10:54:21 AM
It wasnt even a good jump... :-\

thats what i was thinking

Hasn't it been learned by now how to make them things fly a little more horizontal?  Maybe they do it on purpose to keep from destroying the rear and the front,  :confused:
While I don't agree with it, it's their car to do what they wish with it.  Hopefully it was a bondo bucket like the FastNFurious II Challenger's.
I too don't see how the small crowds justify doing such stuff, maybe they charge about a grand per head for admission.

Darkness

#21
April 30, 2006, 03:29:18 PM
I see their into into LS1 Camaros and Firebirds. Maybe we should buy a few of those and jump them and then make a video of it.  ;D

General_01

#22
April 30, 2006, 04:49:08 PM
Jumping these cars is getting out of hand. There looked to be maybe 80-100 people there. I hope as Troy stated that they lost there a** on this deal. At least at Dukesfest there are more people and it is an event especially to commemerate the Dukes. This just seemed to be a "Let's have a barbeque and jump a Dodge Charger" deal. ::) I wonder if the Smith brothers will lose business because of this. Almost everyone opposes this type of stuff, even on the GL fan club websites.

I was told, but it has never been confirmed with paperwork or anything, that the previous owner of my replica (it has been a replica since the early to mid 80's) was contacted by WB during the series. They wanted to buy his car for the series. He turned them down. If it is true, I am happy because if he had, my car would probably be in a junkyard somewhere looking like that thing.
1971 Dodge Charger Super Bee
496 stroker
4-speed

Just 6T9 CHGR

#23
April 30, 2006, 05:12:07 PM
Sadly a waste of a decent car........Like others stated probably will be a rebody someday.

If anyone gets the VIN #, let me know and ill add it to the registry.  i already asked the question in the auction but got no reply
Chris' '69 Charger R/T

Chris G.

#24
April 30, 2006, 05:58:09 PM
Quote from: Just 6T9_CHGR.... on April 30, 2006, 05:12:07 PM
If anyone gets the VIN #, let me know and ill add it to the registry.  i already asked the question in the auction but got no reply

That had me wondering from the start. Surely they didn't expect someone to bid seriously, and not provide a VIN pic or a tag for that matter. I wonder if this car was ever an RT 4spd. I'll bet the auction is won by a zero feedback bidder. It doesn't make it any better if it was a 318, what they did was pointless and well...

I love this quote..."Bid to win an original "General Lee," jumped and signed by professional stuntmen."  :lol: Do they really think their hee-haw version of a GL jump will go down in history?

ps- did you guys see those quarters cave when he hit? Ughhh... :rotz:
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