Why do people do it?

[ionracer24]

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 

thank you.....

[MoparManJim]

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.

I think it was Waylon Jennings (the balladeer) that said. 

[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.

I think it was Waylon Jennings (the balladeer) that said. 

Nah I'm sure the junkyard guy did.
He may have even said it to the guy and his wife who were looking for their "towed" Charger. Can't remember exactly, it's been a while since I saw it, but I always remember wondering why they would let him refer to the car as a '68....

[MoparManJim]

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.

I think it was Waylon Jennings (the balladeer) that said. 

Nah I'm sure the junkyard guy did.
He may have even said it to the guy and his wife who were looking for their "towed" Charger. Can't remember exactly, it's been a while since I saw it, but I always remember wondering why they would let him refer to the car as a '68....

I know the line your talking about, but I can't remember which one said it though. It was indeed mention as a '68 charger.   

[Mike DC]

 
The junkyard guy said something like "a beat-up black 68 coupe that looks like it went through a meat grinder."

Waylon just called it something like "an old black wrecked Charger." It was one of the only "Charger" references in the whole series. 



Of course they portrayed the GL as a unique car the Dukes built themselves in Cooter's garage.  Everything else about it is just the raw material they used.  They don't wanna alienate non-Mopar car guys, nor do they want to remind Mopar owners that the mere mortal 15yo Charger in their driveway is virtually the same thing. 

   

[JT01]

The junkyard guy was drunk he didnt know anybetter.

[Mike DC]

Funny thing is, I think they did technically show a wrecked '68 in those scenes.  Check the fender signal hole.

It also doesn't look like same black Charger that got driven into the ditch during the wreck scene.  I don't know how they wrecked the 68 towed car but it's not a typical jumped GL.  No ballast-weight damage to the rear end at all.  

Whatever it was, it would have taken a serious hit to do that to the towed car.  The front frame/susp is twisted out of shape and the A-pillar is tweaked.  The other black Charger that was shown going into the ditch during the chase probably didn't get hurt much beyond the outer skin.  
 

[JT01]

Good catch the black chase car went into the ditch on its passenger side which shouldnt have very much damage on the drivers side like the one in the pic.

[nvrbdn]

ok guys which episode and year are we talkin about? i wanna go back and watch it .

[doctor4766]

Happy Birthday General Lee

[PocketThunder]

ok guys which episode and year are we talkin about? i wanna go back and watch it .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0567172/

Looks like it aired in 1984  so that would have been season 7..??  It says TV episode 1984 #7.1

Here it is on Youtube.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_40FmGvumI 

Check out Roscoes pornstash and the General jumping thru a huge culvert pipe in the opening first minute!  hahahaha  

[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!    

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

Damn right borther! ! !      In my travels all over the world and more speciffically the middle east, I have never seen any titty-mirages or Boob-Oasis' in any of the five deserts I have been in! 

And I forgot to mention... I am not restoring my Charger, originally a 318 car, into the GL for attention... I am doing it because its a project that my wife and I can work on together and eventually pass it on to my two sons.  I get enough attention back home as a US Marine because people love to talk in small towns... not that I don't apprecieate it, but I like to keep out of the press.     

[Brass]

I can't believe those Dukes took a super-cool, outlaw black Charger and turned it into the General Lee!  

[Mike DC]

                    
The GL origin episode was the season-opener for the last (7th) season.  It was the "Happy Birthday, General Lee" flashback episode.  

Don't get your hopes up too much for it.  They had a cool idea for the car's backstory but it's a shame they didn't do it during one of the first couple seasons.  The miniature stunts were starting to show up by that time.  It was deep into the cheesy era at the end of the show.  The producers were only giving them something like 8-9 days to film each episode by then and the cast had given up trying to make the bad writing sound decent.