GENERAL LEE

[MORFF]

was the color he-mi orange or hugger orange scratching my head i am going to paint the car with this general lee orange get the rims and do custom magnets for the 01 flag and general lee decals.

[skip68]

I used 69 Hugger orange.       To me it looked the best out of all the colors.   

[MORFF]

can you send me some pics so i can see it in different angles tks nics man

[Darkman]

I heard somewhere that the General Lee orange is not an actual dodge colour but a chevy colour.

[6d9 charger]

I  USED  AMC COLOR BIG BAD ORANGE , THAT WHAT THE SMITH BROS. DO THEIR CARS IN , NICE COLOR

[mikepmcs]

i used big bad orange as well. 2005 movie color.

original color was 75' corvette flame red

[MORFF]

tks guys if you guys can post picks tks not sure what orange i am going to use

[Brock Samson]

 Welcome to the site MORFF.
FYI: using search there are more than 30 threads under "Hugger Orange" and 23 found under "Flame Red"
there are many dozens of threads regarding General Lee Paint Jobs and 51 pages of "General Lee" threads...

There's also the member's charger pics up top of the General Discussion page... Might be a lot faster and help narrow it down...

[TylerCharger69]

Right now...mine is hemi orange, but im changing it to AMC big bad orange....as the movie cars are...Hemi orange just seems too dark....LEE 1 was Corvette Flame Red....and others were Hugger orange....there was probably other shades used too.....

[7chargers]

Just watched season 7 of the Dukes of Hazzard, episode one "Happy Birthday General Lee" and did you know that the original General Lee was Black!!! Cool episode if you haven't seen it!!

[68coronetGLwannabe]

I used Hemi orange. Then again alot of my GL is not correct.  

[MORFF]

TKS FOR THE PIC THE FLAG LOOKS NICE MAN

[BlueSS454]

I used 1969 V2 Hemi Orange on mine.  I wanted to keep it a Mopar color.

[MORFF]

nice man mine should be in primer this year. i am going to do the engine bay door wells and trunk in the orange color i am steering toward the big bad orange color tks guys nice cars cant wait tell mine is at least in the orange color.

[BlueSS454]

One thing I did when I painted mine....I shot the interior, door jambs, back side of doors hood & deck lid, interior trunk, engine bay, and underside with a Single Stage urethane paint.  That way, it's easy to touch up or repair if need be.  Then I shot the outside with base/clear.

[Mike DC]

BTW:  The 1978 Georgia "Dukes" crew originally painted the cars Hemi Orange.  But they tested it and discovered that the color looked too red and dark on the developed 35mm film. So they resprayed the cars with the Corvette Orange Flame color because it looked more like a good bright orange on the film. 

[MORFF]

I just have to share this story you know when you buy a new car you never notice that car until you own one your self. Well this happenend to me I work third shift so my schedule is odd compared to a ordinary person I started going a different way to the guys house I car pool with to work. Two days in a row i pass the General lee by candy hill road in Naudatuck,ct. in the morning I can not wait tell I can pass him in my car. Just had to share this story to see if it has happened to someone else.

[Cooter]

Yep, it would seem that once you build a GL, then there seems to be about 6 right in your home town that you never knew about before...