how's the restoration of LEE #1 coming???

[tan top]

looking forward to seeing lee 1  finished  & all the stages of the resto photos  . awesome feet when you think not only was it left to rot in the woods , but it was jumped  when it was 10 years old & destroyed then .

[Mike DC]

         
6pkrunner,

What you've brought up about "will it be the same car?" . . . the issue has been hotly debated among the DOH fans for a while.
The car was bought by a private owner who wanted it restored, so he's paying to have it done. 

The DOH hobby has been split down the middle about whether the resto is a good idea or not.  There will be virtually nothing of the old car left when it's restored, but on the other hand there was virtually nothing (decent & recognizable) of the old car as it was.  It comes down to a question of whether the DOH hobby wants almost nothing of LEE#1 in the form of a green hulk, or we can have almost nothing of LEE#1 redone into the form of LEE#1 again. 

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I personally sided with the "leave it alone" argument all along, for all the same reasons you bring up.
IMHO it would have been better to build a replica of it (in shiny orange un-jumped form) and show the two cars together.

But now the current owner has paid his own money for the hulk and decided he wanted it orange again, so that's that.  I wouldn't have done it but it could be a lot worse.  I'd rather see the car restored than see the front half of it mounted on a wall at a "Planet Hollywood" or something.  At least the resto was done with good intentions for the car.
   
   

[hemigeno]

"THE" General Lee runs, drives, and moves on the same motor and transmission as it did in 1978, everything else is a replica.

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Sounds like a complete rebody if the motor and tranny are the only original parts. Am I reading this correctly?

If I'm reading the first quote right, I don't think he's saying that everything else on the car is a replica.  I think he's saying that all other General Lee's are replicas of his (the first) car.

That's just my interpretation though - could be wrong...

[JimShine]

You are correct hemigeno. That was the intended meaning.

[Wakko]

Does Travis own the car again or is he just part of the restoration effort?  Are they keeping the old original parts (cracked windshield and destroyed body panels) to sell as "parts from Lee1"?

[JimShine]

What I know is what I was shown when I was in Indianapolis and some pics on his laptop. I never asked about details of ownership. Never asked about what the fate of the handfull of Lee1 parts too rough to be reused , I just took it all in and was in awe, then it was time to get back to work on the HCC project.