Frivolous color question for General Lee fans

[Ghoste]

Of the accepted colors that have been used for the General Lee over the years, which one is your personal favorite?  Do you have a preference for ones you see live over the ones seen on tv and film?
The question is frivolous but sometimes it's good to ask things just for the fun of it I guess.

[69bronzeT5]

Well, my all time favorite General Lee was Lee #1....that one was Hemi Orange wasn't it?

[Cooter]

EV2 HEMI ORANGE....

[Topher]

  wasn't the first one blue?

[Ghoste]

It ended blue.

[Matthan]

Yeah I love an orange charger

[68coronetGLwannabe]

Hemi Orange 

[Troy]

wasn't the first one blue?

The first one was actually T5 then Corvette Flame Red then blue.

Troy

[Nacho-RT74]

wasn't the first one blue?

factory color of Lee #1 was Gold... ( if is about that what you talk, beside the joke )

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

[charger01]

gold, orange, blue, gold again, orange again.    wayne wooten states was hemi orange.....

[Ghoste]

Yes, it would be accurate to say that the FIRST orange used on a General Lee was Hemi Orange.

[Troy]

I think Wayne's information is based on the color of his car (not all General Lees). Aren't the Georgia era Lees considered to be Corvette Flame Red? Lee 1 definitely wasn't Hemi Orange.

Not that I pay any attention to different colors that I see on replicas and I certainly don't have a favorite.

Troy

[JT01]

Mine is going to be Corvette flame red

[200MPH]

I like the Georgia Generals the best 

[Mike DC]

 
There's just no way to really know what you're getting when you see colors on film.



The "Natural Born Killers" Challenger prop car was painted EV2 Hemi orange, and yet look at it in the publicity pics:



   

[Cooter]

EXACTLY Mike...Hemi orange when photographed in the right light looks RED...Give it a few minutes and photograph it again and it looks More Orange than red...

We are having this VERY same debate on "Christine's" Red color right now...

[resq302]

EXACTLY Mike...Hemi orange when photographed in the right light looks RED...Give it a few minutes and photograph it again and it looks More Orange than red...

We are having this VERY same debate on "Christine's" Red color right now...

Funny, I have the same problem with pictures with my R4 Bright Red paint on my car.  Sometimes it turns out orange, sometimes two tone.

[Ghoste]

It seems like more people liked the Hemi Orange Generals though.  So now I am wondering if my little poll is being answered more along the lines of "what is your favorite color for a GL?" than "which color of the actual ones looked best in it's presented media?".  Which in hindishgt is closer to how I should have phrased the question?

[Cooter]

Thing is, NOBODY knows the EXACT color of The General Lee....It has always been a sourse of Speculation ONLY as even the ORIGINAL stunt/Body guys don't know for sure.....

[Ghoste]

Didn't know that.  Interesting, I thought it had been well established. 

[Troy]

I don't know about that. Disregard names for a second and break a color down into pigments. There were a bunch of surviving General Lees and there was a well-preserved trunk lid found with/near Lee 1. Any of these could be used to color match the paint. Whether the color was custom mixed or off the shelf it wouldn't matter.

Troy

[Cooter]

Didn't know that.  Interesting, I thought it had been well established.  

One says it's "Hemi Orange" , then in the next thread, one says it's "Corv. Flame Red", then in the next thread, One says it was "Big Bad orange"....

Just like the big debate with closed chamber heads...You read one book, they tell you that "915" heads are the sh*t, then in the next issue, in that SAME Mag., they state "342" heads are the Sh*t....And so on...

I know for a FACT that some GM "greens" are the EXACT same color as CHRYSLER colors, so it would stand to reason that some GM/Ford/etc. colors would actually be the same color just with a different Code Number....

[Ghoste]

I'm aware that some of the Big 3 colors are exactly the same but I also know for a fact that Big Bad Orange, Hemi Orange, and Corvette Flame Red don't fall into that category.  All three have different numbers.

[MoparManJim]

The Lee1 was a factory gold painted over top of that with CFR.

Lee3 was the first car to be painted up in CA and transported down to GA for the filming as well with two other cars that was only half done when they was transported down. Lee3 was the promo car they used alot for alot of the car photos. Lee3 is also the car that has the doors open on the back of some of the VHS covers that is green. Lee3 only had the flag and name on but no numbers at the time. 

Lee1 was the first car as I am aware to be used for filming hench the name Lee1. 

But if you want to know what color the first Lee was try looking at Lee3 and not Lee1.

[jaak]

Wasn't big bad orange used on the 2005 film cars? I thought I read that somewhere.

Jason