Why do people do it?

[moparstuart]

He's a member here too. Car is for sale. I think it would have been worth a lot more the way it was but that's just me.

Troy

alot of people tryed to talk him out of using such a nice car .   Now he's already tired of it  ?
   

[Matthan]

Because the General Lee is awesome......But all Dodge Chargers are awesome.

[68X426]

X3.

There is nothing them folks won't go GL on. Here is what was a perfectly good bull......

[General_01]

When he got that car and showed it on the CGLFC board, even the majority of the members told him it was too nice a car to GL. What'cha gonna do?

[elacruze]

What a dope..... not to malign the GL fans, but why take a beautiful stock R/T and make it into a GL? Take a rusty 318 car and do that.... not a gorgeous R/T like he did!

[68X426]

I found the site that the GL bull picture came from. Them folks are nutty. 

http://artcar.blogspot.com/2008/06/25-ways-to-spot-fake-general-lee.html

Actually pretty funny material on the fake GL.

[MoparManJim]

Hate to see a beautiful blue and white charger go the way of the clone but at least it's still on the road.

Sad that the "1" is on crooked.  

Hey, before you go laughing at someone's work, you should know something, the first car used for filming the series which is known or was known as Lee1 also had what you are laughing at and that is a crooked #1 on it's driver door.  

The original Lee1 just after he had been jump Saturday Nov 1978
 

Nelson the guy that had/has this car built it to look like Lee1 best as he could.  

Was it a cool looking car before he did the transformation on it? heck yes it was and alot of people told him at the time before he started doing the transformation on the car that he should have sold the car and bought another another charger to make into a General Lee replica sense he wanted one. I still think he should have gotten another car to make a replica out of instead of using this charger. But it's his car and it's up to him to do what he wants to with it though.  

[mikepmcs]

The member you guys are talking about is nelson_audet. He is still an active member here. 
He sold the car in early summer I believe.

[RD]

i still believe he did it because it would have been cheaper to just repaint the car and do the slight modifications.  how many 318 cars do you know are taken care of as well as a r/t car is nowadays?  they just are not. cheaper in the long run to find a car with a great body and just paint it rather than having to do it all.  my two cents.

for what its worth.. it was his car, no matter how much i disagree with him, i sure as hell do not want someone telling me what i can/cannot, should or shouldn't do with my cars.

[Back N Black]

The funny thing is ,you would go through all the trouble to duplicate Lee 1 with the crooked 01 and the car is a 68??

[Darkman]

IMHO....I like the after better than the before     

[bill440rt]

Although I'm a big DoH & the General Lee fan at heart, that car looks like it was damn beautiful before the transformation. I personally would have left it alone as it was & found something else to do the GL conversion.

[Ghoste]

With any luck the new owner will return it to stock. 

[The70RT]

He probably had regrets and lots criticism then he sold it?  I agree it was his car and his choice but some may be more of a DOH fan then a Charger fan. I wish they would made the General Lee a Mustang or a Camaro since they made so many more 

[6pkrunner]

[HOTROD]

Some one with to much bloody money !!!

[charge-it]

Another Charger ruined...

[MoparManJim]

Another Charger ruined...

Well at least the General Lee stuff IS un-boltable and the car can be repainted where as the stuff in this thread http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,73820.0.html isn't. And you want to talk about ruin, look at that charger that stuff is not bolt on-able (rocker panels and fender flaired out). 

With the topic name that this thread is, I wonder why people do stuff like is in the link above for to a classic. Why do people do it for.  

[chargerman67]

They just want to be able to use a rebel flag without looking racist.

[Akron_Charger]

Sad that the "1" is on crooked. 

Not sure which series GL it was but one had a crooked "1"..I bet it was done on purpose.   

Well there ya go. Didn't know that one of the series cars was on that way.

Actually and I dont know what episode it is, but during the first season when the Duke boys pull up to either the pond or the farm in the General Lee, the number is 10, not 01

[bull]

i still believe he did it because it would have been cheaper to just repaint the car and do the slight modifications.  how many 318 cars do you know are taken care of as well as a r/t car is nowadays?  they just are not. cheaper in the long run to find a car with a great body and just paint it rather than having to do it all.  my two cents.

for what its worth.. it was his car, no matter how much i disagree with him, i sure as hell do not want someone telling me what i can/cannot, should or shouldn't do with my cars.

Already putting a PR spin on it in case he sees this thread, eh?

[Bobby41909]

The "general" definitely muscled up that car but a new set of wheels and tires would have done that also (granny white walls?).  I am building a General but wouldn't have done that to that car.  It's a 68 R/T in what would appear to be really nice shape.  Probably could have sold it and bought a 69 already a General for less considering he had to paint the car and convert the interior color.  Didn't see the rear, if he didn't change the rear to a 69 it's not a true General conversion.

[RD]

i still believe he did it because it would have been cheaper to just repaint the car and do the slight modifications.  how many 318 cars do you know are taken care of as well as a r/t car is nowadays?  they just are not. cheaper in the long run to find a car with a great body and just paint it rather than having to do it all.  my two cents.

for what its worth.. it was his car, no matter how much i disagree with him, i sure as hell do not want someone telling me what i can/cannot, should or shouldn't do with my cars.

Already putting a PR spin on it in case he sees this thread, eh?

well, no not really.  i do not know the guy other than by name recognition.  all i know is that no matter how much i despise general lee's, i would really despise it even more a whole bunch of people telling me what i can or cannot do, what i have or have not done, OR what I should or should not do with my cars.

now it would be totally different if he "asked" for our opinions regarding his desire for his general lee (not sure if he has in the past, but he has not in this thread).  then, i would say flame on in a heartbeat.

[bull]

I think it's funny around here when a thread like this pops up and we flame away until the owner shows up and gets offended. Then suddenly everyone does a 180 and supports his decision to do whatever he wants with his car. I figured you were just trying to beat the rush, RD.

[Brock Lee]

I noticed Jenny Lee owners either absolutely do not care what the world thinks of their car, or hypersensitive and are thin skinned to criticism. There seems to be no middle ground. All I know is there are alot of them out there. I see a couple (like 4 of them) on a regular basis.