Monster "General Lee"

[JoeyGowdy]

Spotted a Monster "General Lee" today at Subway in Ripley MS - the owner will have it at the Monster Truck Fest in Corinth MS this Friday & Saturday (Mar.13-14,2009), the event is posted here http://www.woodsbuggy.com/forum/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=5434 and I snapped a few photos for y'alls viewing pleasure:
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=54702.0;attach=95915;image
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=54702.0;attach=95916;image
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=54702.0;attach=95917;image
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=54702.0;attach=95918;image

A youtube video of it in acton (2:00-4:15):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXATnX7NZsc

[Mopar2Ya]

It looks neat. Using a fiberglass body is better than an orig. What engine powers it? I hope that's not a BBC.

[tan top]

It looks neat. Using a fiberglass body is better than an orig. What engine powers it? I hope that's not a BBC.

  yeah i agree ...at least they have not wrecked & real second generation 

if only they would jump  something along them lines  & various  DOH  events in stead of still using real ones 

[JoeyGowdy]

I think the guy said he was from Selmer TN and one of his friends had an actual 69 G.L. 440 6pack.

[Ghoste]

That thing is what they should be using at Dukesfests.  Beyond that I don't much get it.  I'm sorry to say but Dukesfests, monster trucks, alien abduction and all that stuff leaves me a little baffled.
To be fair though, I haven't tried any of them and there are a lot of things I like that I know leave folks around me baffled so I guess it all balances out in the end.

[Mike DC]

That thing is what they should be using at Dukesfests.

Don't think that idea has never been kicked around before.  It's just not safe.  Nor does it even look right when jumping. 



On "Knight Rider" the crew tried a fiberglass Firebird shell on a custom built dune buggy chassis in 1982.  The jump physics looked all wrong & goofy, and it was totally not safe compared to jumping steel production bodies at all.  They abandoned the fiberglass shell idea within weeks.

[bk72]

i like it but i really would not want to have it.

[jb666]

i like it but i really would not want to have it.

I like it but wouldn't want to have to change a flat 

[bk72]

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I like it but wouldn't want to have to change a flat 
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true

[Mike DC]

 
It's obviously one of those old flopper funnycar based body molds. 

Given the cost of owning & operating a whole truck like that, I don't see why they didn't just spring for a correctly proportioned body mold. 

[TruckDriver]

I like that!

[JoeyGowdy]

Here's another vid of them in Green bay, Wisconsin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpAfr4xx89c