Who owns this Washington General Lee?

[bull]

I was going through my Spring Roundup pictures from a few years ago and got to wondering about this GL. It was one from the original series and was still Warner Bros. original (unrestored since the show) with all sorts of documentation displayed with it. Anyway, I was just wondering if it's still owned by the same person and if it's still in thie same shape. Anyone know?

[472 R/T SE]

Curtis, wasn't that the year the wheel stander GL made a "fresh from being stolen" appearance?

[Argos_Chargers]

That's Jim Morgan's General.  One of the originals

[miamivice]

yup that is Jims GL. 

[bull]

Curtis, wasn't that the year the wheel stander GL made a "fresh from being stolen" appearance?

I don't know. That doesn't ring a bell.

[Mike DC]

With Rich Sephton having just passed away, that issue is probably at rest now.  Although Rich had a lot of friends in the DOH community and I don't think the whole thing is gonna be forgotten any time soon.  The end result has been that this legendary GL has hardly ever been seen in public (much less run under its own power) since it was created over 20 years ago. 

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The stunt car in the pics looks like GL#36.  A 2nd-unit stunt car from later in the TV series. 
It was one of the 17 surviving GLs that Wayne Wooten got from Warner Bros in 1991. 

By and large, these cars have mostly avoided being restored so far.  They've had a lot of minor repairs & maintinence work done (they were virtually undriveable when WB delivered them), but overall we've gotten very lucky with the current owners.  Most of the cars still have their original TV-series paintjobs & drivetrains, battle-scars and all. 

 

[Nacho-RT74]

I do remember on old board a member called Jim and was THIS PIC on members rides section... is it the same ?

[bull]

Looks like it's got a newer Washington plate. Not that it proves anything but it's fairly likely that's the one.

[Mike DC]

 
BTW:  The owner almost surely added the wheelwell trim onto the car.  The GLs from the later era of the TV series had gotten very consistent, and they always had them removed.

[miamivice]

this IS jims car...and i am guessing you got this pic from the spring round up 04 show. 

[bull]

this IS jims car...and i am guessing you got this pic from the spring round up 04 show. 

Yea, the one out at the dairy farm or whatever it was. I think they only had it at that location one year and my girls were sorry to see it go because they loved the train. Is this GL owner a member here?

[Badbob]

Yeah, that one's the real deal.

[FastbackJon]

If I remember right, Jim's car is really a '68 Charger as well.

[bull]

Yea, come to think of it there aren't any marker lights.

[Mike DC]

 
Although in this case (big-pushbar GLs), all the cars had smoothed-over marker lights regardless of the year.  The rear backup lights in the lower valence panels of the '69 cars had disappeared by season#5, too.

The dashpad is the remaining big giveaway about whether it was a '68 or a '69.  The DOH crew never changed them.

 

[70charger_boy]

Yea, come to think of it there aren't any marker lights.

All generals dont have marker lights. And I know that is Jims car, because it was featured on a tv show that aired on the travel channel about obsessed people and he was on it with the car and there was a segment with travis bell jumping his $40,000 general lee (what a tool!!!) I think he was trying to sell it on ebay a few months ago, not to sure if anyone bought it(really, really high reserve)

[nakita7]

Just finishing Season 7 right now, and the General has been a 68 pretty well since Season 3/4. The interior shots always bug me with the 68 interior. It is nice to see GL's without marker lights though, just seems right now.

[Mike DC]

         
Yeah, by later in the series the 1968 cars were actually getting more common than the 1969 ones.  They also treated the '68 and '69 interior components as totally interchangeable when they re-assembled cars, including sometimes installing 1968 seats into 1969 cars.

But up through most of seasons #1-4 the GLs were still 1969 cars for the majority.  And the '69 cars still had side signal lights visible in the earlier half of the series.