general lee color

[charger lover74]

i know this is probably a question that has been answered countless number of times but does anyone know the actual paint color they used for the general lee during the TV show? i don't think dodge had an orange color sheme for there 69 chargers.

[jaak]

from reading on here, the GL was one of 4 colors,,,,

-mopar's hemi orange
-GM's hugger orange
-AMC's Big Bad orange
-Corvette flame red

Maybe some of the experts will chime in

Jason

[General_01]

Corvette Flame Red is the consensus. Go to this website and you will find out all you will ever want to know about the General Lee.

www.cglfc.com

[Nacho-RT74]

http://www.generalleefanclub.com/

http://www.generalleefanclub.com/build/paincode.html

[skip68]

I used the 1969 Chevy Hugger orange for mine.   To me it looks like the best.       But, that's just my taste for the color.   

[Cooter]

EV2 "HEMI ORANGE"....I guess it would all depend on whether you were doing one of the "Pumkin" orange 7th season cars or the first 5 episodes cars..

[Mike DC]

  
The factory's Hemi Orange was tried initially but the crew decided that it didn't look as good on film as it did in person.  It looked too dark and too red. So the cars were quickly resprayed with the Corvette orange color early in the Georgia filming.


The rest of the TV series was all done with either the Vette color or something very similar to it.  

(If you have ever bought a little "General Lee" 1:25th scale AMT/ERTL plastic model kit, remember how they often come molded in orange plastic right out of the package?  Well I don't know whether it was intentional or not, but that orange plastic on the model kits I've bought has been pretty dead-on to the Corvette color.  Extremely close.)




The 2005 Stifler/Knoxville/Simson movie used AMC 1970 "Big Bad Orange" which is very close to Corvette orange.  


 

[sanders7981]

Anyone know where I can get some of this EV2 Hemi Orange to paint my Charger?  I dont think that the body shop on base sells it.

[tan top]

all these G/L orange  paints , is there a comparison of the 4 different ones side by side ?? 

[sanders7981]

all these G/L orange  paints , is there a comparison of the 4 different ones side by side ?? 

I ahve seen a few pics of the various color schemes, but none of them side by side except for BBO and Hemi Orange though.  I will try to dig up the pic, but I recall seeing it on CGLFC forums. 

[nevadadrifter]

all these G/L orange  paints , is there a comparison of the 4 different ones side by side ?? 

Take a look around the "members rides" section of the CGLFC forum. Plenty of comparison photos to check out. A word of warning though. Whatever shade of orange a GL is painted in, usually looks drastically different in various different lighting. The same car will look nearly red in the shade, but appear to be almost pumpkin orange in bright daylight, so getting a true idea of what shade looks best to you may be a little tricky.

[jaak]

all these G/L orange  paints , is there a comparison of the 4 different ones side by side ??  

Found this on another thread. Its got Corvette Flame, Hugger, AMC big bad orange, and Mack Orange.



Jason

[sanders7981]

all these G/L orange  paints , is there a comparison of the 4 different ones side by side ??  

Found this on another thread. Its got Corvette Flame, Hugger, AMC big bad orange, and Mack Orange.



Jason

Good find! 

[tan top]

all these G/L orange  paints , is there a comparison of the 4 different ones side by side ??  

Found this on another thread. Its got Corvette Flame, Hugger, AMC big bad orange, and Mack Orange.



Jason

Good find!  

good find Jason , thats what i was after looking at  , thanks for posting  appreciated

[lexxman]

I'll look throught some stuff,but I have what should be the paint code for gl orange that was used on the car.So I read on a thread once.

[lexxman]

Ok,I looked and I found the info,from what this said was this is the paint code from one of the remaining 17 real general lee's.
(DAV2764)
C-70-WA-4667

Code from the reunion movie
MAE69982A
Code        Color         Cumulative parts
M118       tinting         23.6
M120       tinting         66.8
M114      light CH        442.0
M130     Orange         957.2
M103      mixing C       4340.8
M102      drier           4420.8

MAE69982A alt.-D
Breakdown
M111       trans par      69.2
M119       hi-hidin        114.4
M107       lead free     191.2
M153      red shade     362.8
M152      orangic       852.0
M154       orangic     2097.2
M103       mixing c    4080.0
M102       drier        4160.0

I hope this helps.I have no idea what this all mines,I'm not a paint guy.And I can't remember where I got this,but again I hope it helps.

M