Why do people do it?

[Khyron]

You mean hubcap"s", did you notice the one tucked way up into the front fender? 

holy shit! ROFLMFAO!

I didn't notice that BUAHHAHAHAHHAAH!

[MoparManJim]

Okay, I'm tired of all this bull crap about "there is to many General Lee's" no there is not. If you do the dam math instead of drinking booze you will see that during the shows run they went through around 300 chargers BUT over a dozen survivors that had survived the show though. Now if you do the math AT how many the factory really made back in 1968 to 69 you will see the number to be way way way up there. So now take out at least 290 cars from that.. Wow guess what not that manym guess what dodge really made afew crap loads of chargers back then. Now take all your daily drunks and show off that had chargers BEFORE the dukes of hazzard even came on the air (1979). These people wrecked chargers driving to fast and lost control and ran into something, drinking and didn't know when to lay off the dam booze and got behind the wheel thinking "I'm okay, I can drive" and then wam another dang charger got totaled.. people showing challenging friends and the car gets wiped out. Yea alot of chargers BEFORE the dukes came around was killed for more down right stupid reason's!    

Then we have the movies BEFORE the dukes as well THAT killed chargers as well! lets see as I know there was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry that had at least 3 chargers, and we know at least 2 got hurt badly. One hit at truck, and one was cabled into a train! (I just found out) The 3rd was killed off set later on.   

Now we have the classic movie "Bullitt" that which indeed did kill 1 charger at least! Remember the gas station scene, who can for get that. They burn a charger for that scene!  

Now if you take the chargers from there that where kill'd and add that to the chargers that ware killed in 1969 to at least 1978, I bet with the nation wide wrecks of chargers from 1969 to 1978 I bet you will have more then 300 totaled chargers.  

Now we have Grand Theft Auto 2 (Eat My Dust) which had a 1970 charger that they sent off a cliff!

Now we come to the Dukes of Hazzard tv series. They used from 1968 to 1969 chargers to potray the General Lee. Now they made around 144 episodes and afew of those episodes was a two part episode. Now in one episode the General wasn't even in it! The was Mary Kays Baby episode which is a first season episode. Some of the episodes reused footage from the same jumps that they had shown to make it look like another jump when it wasn't. Now lets do the math here shall we, 144 episodes minus say 3 episodes that was twp parts around 141 episodes was made, two jumps per episode 141 x 2= 282 chargers. Meaning in afew of the episodes there was at least 3 cars used. BUT now remember over a dozen General Lees has indeed survived! Plus afew chargers that Wayne deals back in the 1990's didn't include that was out in the world is still around yet also! so guess what now  we take that number 17 and go up now we are in 20's! Remember in the series "In the Heat of The Night"? yea that show also had a blue charger which WAS one of the General Lee's from the show repainted from orange! hey guess what there is yet another charger that surivived! Now we have afew yet afew more that was found and also bought back to life by the Smith Boys so guess what there is afew more General Lee's that surivived! so now that 300 that was down to around 282 just got even smaller again! Compaired to how many chargers was wreck back in 1968 to 1978! Now who killed the most chargers? the world did.  

[MoparManJim]

Now moving forward we have now the remake of The Fast and The Ferious" which killed at least 1 1970 Charger back in early 2000 when they pipe ramp the charger up and over the supra.

Now we have the Blade movies, I know they at least killed 1 charger. So there is 1 down for the count.

Now lets move on now we have the movie DeathProof which killed lets see here I think 5 chargers(?) and only one of each car survived the making of that movie. so there is at least 5 more chargers killed!   

You see, there was "alot" more chargers killed out side of the Dukes of Hazzard series. 

Now lets talk about distorying a charger. Now when a person repaints there charger that is not distorying the car at all. Just because one takes and change the color say from black to orange, that is not distorying the charger that is only changing the paint color. When a person bolts a roll in side a Charger to make a General Lee clone, there are yet again not distorying the charger as the roll bar can be unbolted. If they weld it in it can always be cut back out as that is what they make cutting wheels for and grinding dist. Now if they bolt on a push bar, that can be easy unbolted as well. If they add decals to it either painted on or vinyl either was that stuff can still be change back easy. If they put on 10 spoke vectors, guess what they can be unbolted and some other set of rims can be easy bolted on as well. You see the charger is infact not distoryed at all. So when people look at General Lee owners and say they distoryed that car, that person are infact at least 98% wrong!

Now take the guys that have chargers and took and chop them all apart to made drag cars out of them to put big and wider tired on the rear to make them look bad ass. The car is not in fact bad ass, as that is all in the owners mind  . All the car looks like is "cool" really, getting back to the point here, when the person chops the car out to make it a drag car out of it, that is more along the lines of distorying it really as you just removed pieces from that car to turn it into something else meaning you had to "cut" into the car took pieces out to make room for something else. And I bet that car doesn't see the rod very much. So you see these cars are more distoryed then what people say General Lee's are! Yet the General Lee crowed gets more "He ruinned that car by painting it like that"  when these people should open there eyes up maybe alittle more.  

Some of you also talks about when you all see a charger that is in really really rough shape and needs some to alot of work, some of you all say for get about that and move as there is a better one out there, are you not over looking one thing there? that is if you move on you just killed a charger and I thought you was not for killing chargers as some of you say the Dukes killed alot of them in some your books. You want to find a better one that is better shape for alittle bit more of a higher price, why not just take and get the car and take it to the body shop because when you boil it down you will have to pay the body man for working on the car anyways LOL given if it will be a low amount or a very high amount yet you will still be paying for the work. I think of the term lazzyness comes into play really. Whats more strange is no matter what you do in if moving on to that next charger or what, you are still pay someone still that did alot of work on a charger and yet your are still paying for that work that was done and how bad was that charger in before? you don't know, it could have been the same as the other one was that you pass up looking for a better deal. In the end you are still paying for the work that was done to the charger to get it into good shape once again. So in the end you still paided alot of money out for work done on the charger. But for the people leaves one charger go to find that better deal one, just think about how many a series killed and then think about what the choice you just made bout that charger that you was looking at.   

I know one very good friend on this board and they know who they are, my hat (if I had one on) would be off to them and there friends for what they did for one charger. That car was basicly dead, and yet now look at that car, it looks better then new! At least that car didn't die all the way and was saved thanks to the Dukes of Hazzard and one mans will power for the charger! The person at the beginning had a choice on the charger to leave it go and get another one or to save that car they choose save the charger instead , that is more charger back on the road and way better then factory I think also I might add. Even though it took them along time to get the car in shape, if they could do it anyone can. The people just choose not to is all I think.

Now lets get down to movie cars.

Now some of you don't like when someone walks up to you and starts talking to you and asking you about when are you going to bla bla bla questions about your ride. Well if you have a certain type of ride that is the same as what they used in some movie or series then 9 out of 10 you will get questions from fans that are fans of that movie or TV series when they see your ride. Remember you was the same way when you was way younger also! You did the same to people also about there rides as well as it probably came to you as that vehicle from that movie or TV series. So now you are now in there shoes and now you have people coming up to you and asking you the same thing you probably did in your younger days.

Lets see here, for some of you all avoid the questions about when you are going to for your vehicles.

Black Tran's Am's= Smokey and The Bandit. 
Pon= Knight Rider K.I.T.T. 
1968 to 1970 Chargers= Bullitt, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Dukes of Hazzard General Lee, Blade
Chevy and GM Trucks 1979 to 1984= The Fall Guy 
Chevy Vans = The A-Team (series) 
Newer Camaro's= Transformers "Bumble Bee"
Tranios= Starchy & Hutch

That is just to name afew. So if you own anyone of these, you better get ready for fans that ARE really fans of that program to come up to you and start talking to you about your ride. Because to them that ride of yours reminds them alot of that program vehicle that is used and they think you are a fan kinda also in there book and maybe also know thevheicle as well sense you have the same  make of vehicle. 

Now about what Dean mention above, man,    me and you must had the same train of thoughts back then as what you posted was kinda along the same lines that I was at also back then about that vehicle both before and after. Yes what he had was a very beautiful car with a beautiful interior before he repainted it all into a General Lee. It did come out looks down right beautiful as well as General Lee replica. I'm not mad at him or anything, I just don't know or understand why he choose that car for to do the General Lee is all with all kind of chargers out there that he could have used.   

[Darkman]

Not sure I follow Jim, could you explain that again...  (just kidding)

[MoparManJim]

Not sure I follow Jim, could you explain that again...  (just kidding)

I sure can..   

Would you want me to really? 

[Khyron]

Then we have the movies BEFORE the dukes as well THAT killed chargers as well! lets see as I know there was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry that had at least 6 chargers, and we know at least 2 got hurt badly. One hit at truck, and one was cabled into a train!  

with ya right up till there, they used 3, 2 died, the last was owned by a member of this forum, his wife finished that one off LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Mary,_Crazy_Larry
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/trivia

and the director backs that up on the DVD if you listen to the commentary over the movie.

to sum it up, more Chargers where lost by DWI then any of the movies. go scream at a drunk people

[Khyron]

I mean, it could we worse, we could be some jerkoff mounting a rare DeLorien on a 4x4 frame 

http://www.dmcnews.com/faq/h_vins.htm

there where total 9170 made..... so go yell at the person that DOES always yell "look at me" 

[MoparManJim]

Then we have the movies BEFORE the dukes as well THAT killed chargers as well! lets see as I know there was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry that had at least 3 chargers, and we know at least 2 got hurt badly. One hit at truck, and one was cabled into a train!  

with ya right up till there, they used 3, 2 died, the last was owned by a member of this forum, his wife finished that one off LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Mary,_Crazy_Larry
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071424/trivia

and the director backs that up on the DVD if you listen to the commentary over the movie.

to sum it up, more Chargers where lost by DWI then any of the movies. go scream at a drunk people

I went back and corrected my info on that part, thanks man for the info on that. I for got about that member. 

[Khyron]

no problem, loved the rest of what you said though :thumbsup:

[Brock Samson]

   I think your math and the time line are off a bit I get the figure 17 in the year 2424..   :shruggy:now we have - then we- Now-  have a "pon" and what's a Tranios?..

Edited for brevity:

Now moving forward we have now

Now we have the Blade movies,

Now lets move on now we have

Now lets talk about distorying a charger. Now when a person repaints there charger that is not distorying the car at all. Just because one takes and change the color say from black to orange, that is not distorying the charger that is onlyYou see the charger is infact not distoryed at all. So when people look at General Lee owners and say they distoryed that car, that person are infact at least 98% wrong!

Now take the guys that have chargers and took and chop them all apart  And I bet that car doesn't see the rod very much. So you see these cars are more distoryed then what people say General Lee's are! Yet the General Lee crowed gets more "He ruinned that car by painting it like that"  when these people should open there eyes up maybe alittle more.    

Some of you also talks about when you all see a charger that is in really really rough shape and needs some to alot of work, some of you all say for get about that and move as there is a better one out there, are you not over looking one thing there? that is if you move on you just killed a charger and I thought you was not for killing chargers as some of you say the Dukes killed alot of them in some your books. You want to find a better one that is better shape for alittle bit more of a higher price, why not just take and get the car and take it to the body shop because when you boil it down you will have to pay the body man for working on the car anyways LOL given if it will be a low amount or a very high amount yet you will still be paying for the work.


    I think of the term lazzyness comes into play really.          


Whats more strange is no matter what you do in if moving on to that next charger or what, you are still pay someone still that did alot of work on a charger and yet your are still paying for that work that was done and how bad was that charger in before? you don't know, it could have been the same as the other one was that you pass up looking for a better deal. In the end you are still paying for the work that was done to the charger to get it into good shape once again. So in the end you still paided alot of money out for work done on the charger. But for the people leaves one charger go to find that better deal one, just think about how many a series killed and then think about what the choice you just made bout that charger that you was looking at.    


Now lets get down to movie cars.

Now some of you don't like when someone walks up to you and starts talking to you and asking you about when are you going to bla bla bla questions about your ride. Well if you have a certain type of ride that is the same as what they used in some movie or series then 9 out of 10 you will get questions from fans that are fans of that movie or TV series when they see your ride. Remember you was the same way when you was way younger also! You did the same to people also about there rides as well as it probably came to you as that vehicle from that movie or TV series. So now you are now in there shoes and now you have people coming up to you and asking you the same thing you probably did in your younger days.

Lets see here, for some of you all avoid the questions about when you are going to for your vehicles.

Black Tran's Am's= Smokey and The Bandit.  
Pon= Knight Rider K.I.T.T.  
1968 to 1970 Chargers= Bullitt, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, Dukes of Hazzard General Lee, Blade
Chevy and GM Trucks 1979 to 1984= The Fall Guy  
Chevy Vans = The A-Team (series)  
Newer Camaro's= Transformers "Bumble Bee"
Tranios= Starchy & Hutch

That is just to name afew. So if you own anyone of these, you better get ready for fans that ARE really fans of that program to come up to you and start talking to you about your ride. Because to them that ride of yours reminds them alot of that program vehicle that is used and they think you are a fan kinda also in there book and maybe also know thevheicle as well sense you have the same  make of vehicle.  

Now about what Dean mention above, man,    me and you

 shades of William Shatner here now man?.

Okay, I'm tired of all this bull crap about "there is to many General Lee's" no there is not. If you do the dam math instead of drinking booze you will see that during the shows run they went through around 300 chargers BUT over a dozen survivors that had survived the show though. Now if you do the math AT how many the factory really made back in 1968 to 69 you will see the number to be way way way up there. So now take out at least 290 cars from that.. Wow guess what not that  manym
guess what dodge really made afew crap loads of chargers back then. Now take all your daily drunks and show off that had chargers BEFORE the dukes of hazzard even came on the air (1979). These people wrecked chargers driving to fast and lost control and ran into something, drinking and didn't know when to lay off the dam booze and got behind the wheel thinking "I'm okay, I can drive" and then wam another dang charger got totaled.. people showing challenging friends and the car gets wiped out. Yea alot of chargers BEFORE the dukes came around was killed for more down right stupid reason's!    

Then (not "NOW?) we have the movies BEFORE the dukes as well THAT killed chargers as well! lets see as I know there was Dirty Mary Crazy Larry that had at least 6 chargers, and we know at least 2 got hurt badly. One hit at truck, and one was cabled into a train!  

Now we have the classic movie "Bullitt" that which indeed did kill 1 charger at least! Remember the gas station scene, who can for get that. They burn a charger for that scene!  

Now if you take the chargers from there that where kill'd and add that to the chargers that ware killed in 1969 to at least 1978, I bet with the nation wide wrecks of chargers from 1969 to 1978 I bet you will have more then 300 totaled chargers.  

Now we have Grand Theft Auto 2 (Eat My Dust) which had a 1970 charger that they sent off a cliff!

"NOW" we come to the Dukes of Hazzard tv series. They used from 1968 to 1969 chargers to potray the General Lee. NowNow they made around 144 episodes and afew of those episodes was a two part episode. Now in one episode the General wasn't even in it! The was Mary Kays Baby episode which is a first season episode. Some of the episodes reused footage from the same jumps that they had shown to make it look like another jump when it wasn't. Now lets do the math here shall we, 144 episodes minus say 3 episodes that was twp parts around 141 episodes was made, two jumps per episode 141 x 2= 282 chargers. Meaning in afew of the episodes there was at least 3 cars used. BUT now remember over a dozen General Lees has indeed survived! Plus afew chargers that Wayne deals back in the 1990's didn't include that was out in the world is still around yet also! so guess what now  we take that number 17 and go up now we are in 20's! Remember in the series "In the Heat of The Night"? yea that show also had a blue charger which WAS one of the General Lee's from the show repainted from orange! hey guess what there is yet another charger that surivived! Now we have afew yet afew more that was found and also bought back to life by the Smith Boys so guess what there is afew more General Lee's that surivived! so now that 300 that was down to around 282 just got even smaller again! Compaired to how many chargers was wreck back in 1968 to 1978! Now who killed the most chargers? the world did.  

[MoparManJim]

I mean, it could we worse, we could be some jerkoff mounting a rare DeLorien on a 4x4 frame 

http://www.dmcnews.com/faq/h_vins.htm

there where total 9170 made..... so go yell at the person that DOES always yell "look at me" 

Okay, so what he is doing is not your every day thing, so what, that doesn't make him a you know what though. Have you ever seen Monster Garage? there had an episode on a Delorien build into a hovercraft. You should really watch that episode before judging the other member that you are reffering to  .  Because if you think what that member is doing is bad then you will not like the Monster Garage episode at all my friend. They did way way worst to not one BUT two (2) Deloriens on that episode! Both cars was in good shape also! 

At least with our member here, he can has plans on driving his 4x4 Delorien around. 

[Mike DC]

                                     
                                           

[68X426]

More relevant I think. 

[Ghoste]

That's waaay too much reading for my booze addled brain to deal with but if I glanced at it correctly what I gathered is this, that lots of people and movies destroyed Chargers but on an individual basis, the DOH still hold the world record for sheer number literally destroyed (without even counting the bonus wrecks from such farcical affairs as Dukesfest) and most destroyed by appearance on a taste basis.  Does that about sum it up?  

[doctor4766]

Jim you have obviously put a LOT of thought into your post there and I see exactly where you're coming from. Some good points in there.
There were plenty of Rosco-mobiles trashed as well, with a lot of them being Mopars too right?
Don't see anyone crying about how many of those were wrecked......

[doctor4766]

And oh yeah I forgot to mention...
You can also deduct from your list the cars that were in the Coy and Vance era since everybody knows they were only PRETEND  episodes  

[Khyron]

Okay, so what he is doing is not your every day thing, so what, that doesn't make him a you know what though. Have you ever seen Monster Garage? there had an episode on a Delorien build into a hovercraft. You should really watch that episode before judging the other member that you are reffering to  .  Because if you think what that member is doing is bad then you will not like the Monster Garage episode at all my friend. They did way way worst to not one BUT two (2) Deloriens on that episode! Both cars was in good shape also! 

At least with our member here, he can has plans on driving his 4x4 Delorien around. 

*chuckle* Im not saying he's that because of what he's doing....

just that he is one

[Back N Black]

You guys know Waaaaay to much about DOH. Its kinda freaky!

[sanders7981]

I'm restoring my 69 Charger into a GL... Will it be real... damn right it will, If you can touch it, I'd say its pretty damn real.  I use the same motto for fake boobs too!    

[PocketThunder]

I'm restoring my 69 Charger into a GL... Will it be real... damn right it will, If you can touch it, I'd say its pretty damn real.  I use the same motto for fake boobs too!    

Finally someone with common sense!  "If you can touch them, they are REAL!!"      

[ionracer24]

not to mention the general was a 69, not a 68....it just doesnt look right   

[MoparManJim]

not to mention the general was a 69, not a 68....it just doesnt look right   

You are incorrect on that, the story line was pose to be '69's yes, but they went through more '68's then they did '69's I heard. They would just rivit the center piece into the grill. Here is a photo that I barrowed off another site to show this.

[The70RT]

not to mention the general was a 69, not a 68....it just doesnt look right   

You are incorrect on that, the story line was pose to be '69's yes, but they went through more '68's then they did '69's I heard. They would just rivit the center piece into the grill. Here is a photo that I barrowed off another site to show this.

Technically but a 69 is what they are trying to duplicate 

[MoparManJim]

not to mention the general was a 69, not a 68....it just doesnt look right   

You are incorrect on that, the story line was pose to be '69's yes, but they went through more '68's then they did '69's I heard. They would just rivit the center piece into the grill. Here is a photo that I barrowed off another site to show this.

Technically but a 69 is what they are trying to duplicate 

Correct, and also a General Lee at the same time, so there for they are doing two (2) jobs at one time. 

[doctor4766]

Actually,
In "Happy Birthday General Lee" didn't the guy at the junkyard tell them there was a '68 Charger that just got towed in that they may be interested in? (referring to the car that would eventually be GL)
I'm sure that's one of the only times where the word Charger is even said too.