where did the crashed GL's go?

[wizkid]

i thought some guy in Texas has them in a junk yard, but i cant find a link to any info anywhere. i remember seeing a huge aerial photo of all the junked general lees from the TV show a few years ago.

[CornDogsCharger]

If you are talking about this picture, this was taken while the series was being filmed.  I have never heard about a guy in Texas that had a bunch of used up General Lees.  More than likely it is just a rumor.  More than 95% of the General Lee that were used on the series were stripped of good parts and then crushed.

Justin
"CornDog"

[69bronzeT5]

Poor Poor Chargers . There are some Chargers from the show left though. There was a few on Ebay, a few here and there at Dukesfest, one guy found one in a field and restored it and Lee #1 is still alive. Also, they used one of the originals in the 2005 movie. They cut it up and used it as a green screen car and that one was on Ebay last month.

[Mike DC]

There are a little over 20 surviving GLs from the old series. 

17 were sold by WB itself.  These are the best of the survivors.  WB literally stopped filming the series, left these 17 cars sitting outdoors for 6 years, and then sold them off to the Dodge Charger registry in 1991.   

A handful of other GLs have been found in recent years.  Each of them "survived" (and I use the term VERY loosely here) because of weird set of circumstances that is unlikely to lead to any more turning up that way. 


The DOH fans have been pretty thorough on pursuing the fates of the TV-series GLs.  Another car or two might turn up in the future but there just aren't any major chunks of cars unaccounted for. 

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After the first half-dozen Georgia cars, the TV-series GLs were scrapped in an orderly fashion in Cali.  By the time they were sent to the scrapyard they were nothing but hulks.  No doors, no roof skins, no wheels/tires, not much interior left, everything hastily sprayed with orange/tan paint, almost all the wrecks were 318 & 383 automatic cars, etc.

Those things were worthless wrecks in the early 1980s, and WB itself wanted them scrapped for liability reasons as soon as they were finished with them.  Most of them died in car crushers just like millions of other musclecars at that time & place. 

 

[Charger1973]

Lee #1 is still alive

[Nacho-RT74]

Lee #1 is still alive

did run from This:


then:


prepared to a Nascar Chapter:


after that on ebay got sold on $25K just like:


Out of the woods:


and finally to this:

[wizkid]

that nice to see that #1 was restored, but thats a shame that the others were crushed    so they kept all of the potentialy replacable parts like Q panels, fenders, doors and such? i wonder what they did with all of those parts after the show. they must have known that people would have bought them, if not for the part but for the novelty.

[moparstuart]

If you are talking about this picture, this was taken while the series was being filmed.  I have never heard about a guy in Texas that had a bunch of used up General Lees.  More than likely it is just a rumor.  More than 95% of the General Lee that were used on the series were stripped of good parts and then crushed.

Justin
"CornDog"

isnt this HLPAG's lot ? 

[triple_green]

Isn't  Wayne Wooten of The Dodge Charger Registry suppose to have a "boatload" of the Jenny Lees and parts?

[THE COLONEL]

Isn't  Wayne Wooten of The Dodge Charger Registry suppose to have a "boatload" of the Jenny Lees and parts?

Wayne has his GL, and the rest were sold to private owners.  As far as parts, I think he has sold quite a few parts as well, but probably has some for himself. 

[sick dawg]

If you are talking about this picture, this was taken while the series was being filmed.  I have never heard about a guy in Texas that had a bunch of used up General Lees.  More than likely it is just a rumor.  More than 95% of the General Lee that were used on the series were stripped of good parts and then crushed.

Justin
"CornDog"

isnt this HLPAG's lot ? 

That was Han's place before the big sale, now inventory is down quite a bit!

[Mike DC]

Wayne Wooten got the cars from WB but he didn't keep them. 

WB pitched Wayne the idea of buying the surviving cars for his registry.  Wayne spread the cars out to 16 other owners in the registry who could come up with the cash at the time.  (The price was not very much money per car at all.  WB wasn't really trying to make a profit, they just asked for enough money to cover the big legal expenses of the whole deal.)

Wayne kept the surviving 1st-unit "closeup" car for himself. 

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The other (of the two) 1st-unit GLs from the old series was retained by WB.  They've used it in the DOH reunion specials & the 2005 movie.  It was one of the closeup cars that received a 528 Hemi crate motor while they filmed the 2005 movie.

[triple_green]

yes..and we know where the one is in WA......