O.K. Who Stole the Jennie Lee?..

[Brock Samson]

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lihaz0125,0,5612855.story     

Dukes of Hazzard replica car stolen, abandoned
BY JOSEPH MALLIA | joseph.mallia@newsday.com
8:15 AM EST, January 24, 2008

It's a case for the Hazzard County Sheriff -- tracking down whoever stole, then abandoned, a replica of the General Lee, the archetypal Dukes of Hazzard muscle car.

The General Lee replica, an orange 1969 Dodge Charger, was stolen Wednesday night from a Ronkonkoma auto body shop.

The car was recovered at 7:08 a.m. Thursday in Ronkonkoma, on 11th Street off Lake Promenade, about nine hours after the police learned that it had been stolen.

"Someone forced their way into the building and took the car out, so it was a burglary," Suffolk County Police Department spokesman Sonny Di Stefano said.

"The car had the rebel flag on the top and the 01 on the side, the whole schmear," the officer said.

A 911 call came in from a passing motorist at 10:19 p.m. Wednesday who reported seeing unusual activity at Continental Car Care at 654 Portion Rd., and when officers arrived to check it out they found that someone had broken into the building and stolen the General Lee replica, the police spokesman said.

The body shop's owners could not be reached for comment.

The car became a movie star in its own right, with fan clubs selling General Lee license plates and T-shirts, and its own Wikipedia page. One of the actual cars used in Dukes of Hazzard movies sold in an Arizona auction Sunday for $450,000, according to the fan site hazzardnet.com.

Another web site devoted entirely to the car, generalleefanclub.com, traces the hillbilly vehicle back to its origins, and notes that action footage of the car is seen in nearly every episode of the Dukes of Hazzard TV show.

"The first General Lee was built by Warner Brothers in California and was transported to Covington, GA," the fan site says, "where it jumped Rosco's police car in episode No. 1, One Armed Bandits, on Saturday, November 11th, 1978 in front of Seney Hall at Oxford College, Georgia."

[Rack]

Another web site devoted entirely to the car, generalleefanclub.com, traces the hillbilly vehicle back to its origins, and notes that action footage of the car is seen in nearly every episode of the Dukes of Hazzard TV show

Hillbilly vehicle? I always thought georgia was pretty flat. How could there be a "hill billy" on flat land?

Or is my interpretation of "hill billy" off?


Hope they catch whoever did this. I know if my vehicle was stolen I'd be PO'd.

[Dave22443]

Well, at least they didn't jump it   

[SFRT]

Another web site devoted entirely to the car, generalleefanclub.com, traces the hillbilly vehicle back to its origins, and notes that action footage of the car is seen in nearly every episode of the Dukes of Hazzard TV show

Hillbilly vehicle? I always thought georgia was pretty flat. How could there be a "hill billy" on flat land?

Or is my interpretation of "hill billy" off?


Hope they catch whoever did this. I know if my vehicle was stolen I'd be PO'd.

northern georgia has mountains

[Brock Samson]

Well, at least they didn't jump it   

  Speakin of which,.. Did the DOH ever jump the shark?..   

[Crazy Larry]

It says Schneider's Gen Lee was one that was used in the movie...

The car became a movie star in its own right, with fan clubs selling General Lee license plates and T-shirts, and its own Wikipedia page. One of the actual cars used in Dukes of Hazzard movies sold in an Arizona auction Sunday for $450,000, according to the fan site hazzardnet.com.

Is that true? Which Charger was it in the Dukes of Hazzard movie line-up?

Just wondering.

i always thought it was a random Charger - that had nothing to do with the TV shows or movie.

[BigBlackDodge]

Another web site devoted entirely to the car, generalleefanclub.com, traces the hillbilly vehicle back to its origins, and notes that action footage of the car is seen in nearly every episode of the Dukes of Hazzard TV show

Hillbilly vehicle? I always thought georgia was pretty flat. How could there be a "hill billy" on flat land?

Or is my interpretation of "hill billy" off?


Hope they catch whoever did this. I know if my vehicle was stolen I'd be PO'd.

northern georgia has mountains

Yep.


The southern part is flat. We have Flatbillys 'round here.

BBD

[Rack]

Ok then I didn't know that.


I suck at geography. 

[JoeyGowdy]

It's "Redneck" not "Hillbilly" they need to correct that    lol

[bordin34]

JS' Lee was used in the reunion movie.

[Mike DC]

 
JS's car really doesn't have a whole lot in common with the rest of the real prop-car GLs.  It's a souped up restomod with a GL conversion not too different from what any of us would build. 


The real prop-cars were rough & tumble beaters to the core.  Even the couple of "nice ones" they used in the TV series were rougher than almost any fan would want their replica to be.