Dukesfest pics/jump clip

runningman · June 05, 2006, 09:52:03 AM

Went to dukesfest for the first time, it was actually pretty cool seeing all the chargers out there. The paper said there were 120 of them, pretty sweet seeing them go around the racetrack. I have some pics and also a small video clip of the General jump. I have to admit it was pretty freakin cool seeing that car get jumped, we were quick to head out after to catch our plane but I thought I heard Ben Jones (cooter) say that it was a record jump from asphalt to asphalt............202 feet. If anyone wants to see it email me and I will send it to you. Matt bsanders@ameritech.net

BrianShaughnessy · June 05, 2006, 10:14:12 AM

If it's 25M or less just try www.putfile.com - it's frrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I took this yesterday of my friend George's 572 Road Runner. Click this: http://media.putfile.com/Georges-burnout-

runningman · June 05, 2006, 10:22:29 AM

Nice clip, I am going to create an account......

runningman · June 05, 2006, 11:12:38 AM

okay try this, also put a couple of pics from coyote ugly up

http://www.putfile.com/runningman

runningman · June 05, 2006, 11:18:55 AM

There was an article in the Tenn paper on Sunday, dukesfest was going to be largest event ever held at the fairgrounds. Preliminary estimates were at 75,000 for the weekend but they said it would probably go over 100,000 by the end of the day.

wLc · June 06, 2006, 12:48:02 PM

Here's another video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD28qUCLtTU

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 01:45:11 PM

I was there. I was looking from the stands and only managed to get a picture of the General in the air...it was a REALLY cool jump.

terrible one · June 06, 2006, 01:45:56 PM

I think that's the first jump I've ever seen where he landed and kept rolling straight. Pretty flat landing.

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 01:48:04 PM

Actually, the jump from 2004 was 193ft and the car rolled to a stop down the field at Bristol. Just FYI

SeattleCharger · June 06, 2006, 02:02:33 PM

What a total POS "imitation" General Lee, come on, the real General never got smashed up like that and the front wheels and axles didn't get all destroyed like that.

mikepmcs · June 06, 2006, 02:14:16 PM

My curiosity finally got the best of me and i watched it.

Still sad to see another charger get demolished.

That dude was hauling some serious butt though.

v/r
Mike

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 02:17:48 PM

here is a picture of the car before it was jumped...if you watch the first couple of seasons of Dukes carefully, you will see what happened to the actual jump cars....try season 2 "Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough" and watch the jump towards the end...

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 02:19:50 PM

notice how far the front end was cranked up -AND- there was 450lbs of weight in the back of the car as well. I looked at this car pretty closely. There were '68 front fenders on it and the majority of it had been gutted for the stunt.

JimShine · June 06, 2006, 02:37:42 PM

Quote from: warriorbass05 on June 06, 2006, 02:19:50 PM
notice how far the front end was cranked up

Yeah, looks like my cars current setup

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 02:40:07 PM

my kids came running when I pulled up those videos...the ones on putfile were shot really close to where we were sitting. It is like reliving that and even my wife had to come and watch them!!!
Nice General jimshine!!! Crankin up those torsion bars huh?
Bet it's fast...

JimShine · June 06, 2006, 02:45:53 PM

Yeah, my wheel and tire profile combo was too big in the front. When the wheel was cut hard to the right, it would grab the lip of the fender. It is cranked until I fix it. Mikepmcs gave me rims I am going to use on the front that are 7 inches wide versus 8.5. I am also dropping down to 60 on the profile. Between the two my front end should have all the clearance it needs and I can drop it back down.

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 02:49:24 PM

Sounds good bro, are you going to drive it to Covington come November?

JimShine · June 06, 2006, 02:50:39 PM

No, I wont be bringing it. But I most likely will be there anyway.

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 03:00:46 PM

This was one of my favorite cars.....I love rocker trim.....

That's me in the Charger...

runningman · June 06, 2006, 04:54:05 PM

Too bad some of us couldn't have met up down there. We really need some t-shirts or hats or something........

runningman · June 06, 2006, 04:55:23 PM

warriorbass did you get the clips I emailed? I had to resend them one at a time, too big to send em both together

Mike DC · June 06, 2006, 04:56:58 PM

QuoteThat dude was hauling some serious butt though.

I've seen a bunch of these guys' stunts in the last few years and I've never seen Corey go barreling into a ramp as hard as he did on Sunday. He mashed the throttle wide open when he was rounding the fourth turn and then didn't let back off the gas until the car was in the air. I suspect it was 85-95 mph or so (given this jump distance compared to previous GL speeds & flights).

QuoteWhen the wheel was cut hard to the right, it would grab the lip of the fender

Take a good look at the front fenders on this weekend's jump car. The front lower corners of the wheelwells were cut this time to make sure they didn't rub like that with the front end jacked up so high.

JimShine · June 06, 2006, 05:01:49 PM

Wow Mike, I didn't even catch that! Pretty obvious now that I see it. Looks like they trimmed back quite a bit from that corner.

Mike DC · June 06, 2006, 06:26:34 PM

Yeah, they're doing more to those jump cars all the time. It's always basically been a stock Dodge Charger with a rollcage & some trunk ballast, but the list of little modifications is still growing. A jumper GL is become more & more of a unique creation that's separate from a typical 2nd-unit driver.

Notice that the center vertical bar across the windshield opening is always present in recent years. And the main hoop (just behind the driver) is a "doubled" pair of tubes every time now. And there are smaller vertical tubes added behind the vent window frames now. And the vent windows/frames themselves have disappeared on the last three cars they've built . . .

SeattleCharger · June 06, 2006, 07:31:13 PM

Anyone catch the show on the country music channel about the making of the Dukes? Had a bunch in there about the stunt coordinator that designed all the jump sequences in the show. Had a lot of video of the actual landings of the jumps, not the edited in landing you saw on tv, very cool. Ya, funny how in real life the car doesn't land in perfect condition, heh.

warriorbass05 · June 06, 2006, 07:46:18 PM

Quote from: runningman on June 06, 2006, 04:55:23 PM
warriorbass did you get the clips I emailed? I had to resend them one at a time, too big to send em both together

Got them, thanks dude!!!

runningman · June 06, 2006, 08:40:57 PM

Here is my buddies clip http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5155280035713307780

Darkness · June 07, 2006, 01:27:48 AM

I'm hoping that's a HPLAG car they used for the jump.

warriorbass05 · June 07, 2006, 11:05:03 AM

Quote from: Darkness on June 07, 2006, 01:27:48 AM
I'm hoping that's a HPLAG car they used for the jump.

No, it was a charger that Tom Sarmento and the stunt team put together. Check here for more info www.hazzardcountystuntteam.com
for more on the cars...

mikepmcs · June 07, 2006, 11:11:17 AM

Quote from: warriorbass05 on June 07, 2006, 11:05:03 AM
Quote from: Darkness on June 07, 2006, 01:27:48 AM
I'm hoping that's a HPLAG car they used for the jump.

No, it was a charger that Tom Sarmento and the stunt team put together. Check here for more info www.hazzardcountystuntteam.com
for more on the cars...

WB05, that site doesn't sat anything about the cars at all, just selling a bunch of stuff and a couple bio's, you got another site, or maybe mikeDC will chime in as well on this.
v/r
Mike

warriorbass05 · June 07, 2006, 11:31:59 AM

Sorry, I had a moment. I have a DVD that shows the making of the cars for LAST year's jumps. My bad...It is from that site, the DVD is called Dukesfest 2005....

mikepmcs · June 07, 2006, 12:56:21 PM

thanks, i'll check with jim shine, he's very knowledgeable as well.
v/r
Mike

Mike DC · June 07, 2006, 01:56:51 PM

The stunt crew typically finds & builds all their own cars for these shows.
(Even if it means delivering a slammed-together Charger buildup on just a few weeks' notice, which is frequently what happens.)

But even when the stunt crew doesn't supply the Charger themselves, they still have to wrench on it for several weeks beforehand anyway. So no matter whose it was when it started, the car tends to be largely one of their projects by the time it's ready to fly. They gut interiors, re-do suspensions, they sometimes swap out decent plastic grilles & body panels for crappier ones, etc.

mikepmcs · June 07, 2006, 02:22:17 PM

What about all the interior parts/seats/trim and such? Do you know what happens to that stuff, like they could easily remove outside trim too and noone would really notice. It sounds like you know these guys Mike, so that's why i'm asking.

v/r
Mike

wLc · June 07, 2006, 03:16:57 PM

Wakko has some good pics of it after the jump.
http://www.cglfc.com/wforum/viewtopic.php?t=7908

Mike DC · June 07, 2006, 06:09:18 PM

Yeah, a lot of the parts that get gutted will end up on other people's cars. The stunt crew likes to let their friends supply raggedy plastic grilles, dashboards, etc whenever a "jumper" car has anything nicer they could swap out.

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I know for a fact that last year's Dukesfest car had a decent '69 grille that was swapped out beforehand. It jumped with a raggedy cracked-up '68 grille wearing a homemade center divider in the middle. Lots of duct tape & zip ties on the jumper grilles.

I think this year was the first year any of the cars jumped with an actual Charger front bucket seat. It's more often a donor seat from some other junkyard car that's been spray painted tan. (The major jump harnesses they wear make the seat padding mostly irrelevant in terms of safety.)

The interiors are never more than a spray-painted dashbard frame & a steering column (and the MTV car last summer didn't even have a dashboard frame at all). No window glass, floor shifters, instruments, etc.

The chrome trim (especially the rare stuff like the vinyl top trim & the rear window pieces) are more often phony than real too. They use lots of generic rubber-backed chrome trim rolls from body shop supply stores, and sometimes literally just strips of chrome tape.

mikepmcs · June 07, 2006, 06:11:10 PM

Cool, thanks Mike

warriorbass05 · June 08, 2006, 12:53:42 PM

Quote from: Mike DC (formerly miked) on June 07, 2006, 06:09:18 PM

Yeah, a lot of the parts that get gutted will end up on other people's cars. The stunt crew likes to let their friends supply raggedy plastic grilles, dashboards, etc whenever a "jumper" car has anything nicer they could swap out.

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I know for a fact that last year's Dukesfest car had a decent '69 grille that was swapped out beforehand. It jumped with a raggedy cracked-up '68 grille wearing a homemade center divider in the middle. Lots of duct tape & zip ties on the jumper grilles.

I think this year was the first year any of the cars jumped with an actual Charger front bucket seat. It's more often a donor seat from some other junkyard car that's been spray painted tan. (The major jump harnesses they wear make the seat padding mostly irrelevant in terms of safety.)

The interiors are never more than a spray-painted dashbard frame & a steering column (and the MTV car last summer didn't even have a dashboard frame at all). No window glass, floor shifters, instruments, etc.

The chrome trim (especially the rare stuff like the vinyl top trim & the rear window pieces) are more often phony than real too. They use lots of generic rubber-backed chrome trim rolls from body shop supply stores, and sometimes literally just strips of chrome tape.

There was a pieced together car that was used as a videogame that people were sitting in taking pics of outside the stunt team area and it had chrome tape all over it...as can be seen in this pic with my son...

Wakko · June 08, 2006, 02:52:26 PM

Warrior, the pic with your son is of the MTV Jump car that was slapped back together for the "simulator".

warriorbass05 · June 08, 2006, 04:55:14 PM

Quote from: Wakko on June 08, 2006, 02:52:26 PM
Warrior, the pic with your son is of the MTV Jump car that was slapped back together for the "simulator".

Dude, thanks for clarifying, I had no idea...I did not get to see that jump....so this car went 133 feet? Is this the right jump that I am thinking of? Someone had crawled under that car to see underneath and said that it was a mess. Does anyone have any pics of that jump? I think I have one....

Mike DC · June 08, 2006, 06:52:52 PM

You can see the faked chromed rocker panels on the lower edges of the car.

They were put there just on this particular car to simulate the original car from 1978.
With this jump, MTV was imitating the GL's original first jump that they shot during the pilot episode. This car was the only time a GL had factory chrome rocker panels. (Well, at least this was the only time a set of chrome rockers didn't get removed or sprayed orange.)

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The car lost its brakes on impact with the ground. The driver pointed it into the side of a Jeep Cherokee to bring it to a stop (it hit HARD and totalled the Jeep). I was told that the crew put another whole front clip onto the car for displaying it.

And I'm not sure, but it looked like they must have also redone some of the bodywork on rear half of the car too. The quarter panels didn't look as buckled this weekend as they originally did right after the jump last year.

mikepmcs · June 08, 2006, 07:22:39 PM

those boys have some big cajones to do that stuff.

although i hate to see em wrecked...... had to throw that in there.
v/r
Mike

warriorbass05 · June 09, 2006, 12:01:03 PM

Can you imagine having this as your day job? How much fun could THAT be???

JimShine · June 09, 2006, 12:08:48 PM

Imagine what it was like 'back in the day'. Show up to work, see 14-20 Chargers parked together. Grab a big block car to warm up. If ya crash it, get a little crap from the boss, not the end of the world.

warriorbass05 · June 10, 2006, 01:31:22 PM

Quote from: JimShine on June 09, 2006, 12:08:48 PM
Imagine what it was like 'back in the day'. Show up to work, see 14-20 Chargers parked together. Grab a big block car to warm up. If ya crash it, get a little crap from the boss, not the end of the world.

And chances are, all of those Generals are long gone....

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