Wheel question for DOH fans

[JT01]

I think it was a popular style in general (no pun intended) at the time the series came together.

I think your exactlly right being they was so popular and they look really good on about anything.

[Cooter]

From what I understand, those wheels were the wheels that were on the car when the producers happen to put it on the air..Once everybody had seen it with those wheels, well, they had to keep those for the entire run of the show...

[Ghoste]

Personally I never cared for them much but to each his own.

[Cooter]

Hell, I'm running Buick "T" type wheels wheels on mine so......

[Ghoste]

Did that GL Enterprises have any connection to George Barris?

[Cooter]

Not as far as I know...It was all Warner Bro. when it came to thinking up that paint job...I remember seeing one of the producers on TV saying how they came upon the idea for the Charger as the GL...


One day the Execs. were "Brainstorming" about which car to use..They already had a red and white Torino (S&H), already had a Black Trans Am (S&TB), so while trying to come up with a car, one of them walked over to the Window (I think it was Guy Waldron Spelling?), and looked down and there was a copper colored Charger with a black Vinyl roof sitting on the street..He said "Hey! What about a Charger?" The General Lee was born...

[Ghoste]

But wasn't the place that made the [ub;ic appearance cars some kind of subcontractor?

[Cooter]

Don't know bout the PR cars, but the show was all bodyshopped right on the set...

[Ghoste]

From what Mike is saying though, this one is a pr car.  Although I have say that if it wa for pr purposes they sure didn't break the bank on doing a nice job.  It's not a turd exactly but it doesn't seem pr worthy to me.

[Mike DC]

    
Barris was not involved in the GL in any official capacity whatsoever.  He just loves to imply that he was involved.  


The GLE cars weren't directly Warner Bros P.R. cars.  They were similar to a P.R. car when they toured the country, but the GLE cars really didn't rub elbows with WB and the show in any other way.  That was before it was normal for shows to have a "hero car" or a P.R. car at all.  They were not displayed on WB's studio tour (like many star-cars are today at WB and Universal).  When WB needed to send a GL for various magazine articles, other TV appearances at the time, etc, they typically just borrowed a GL from the regular prop-car fleet. 

[aussiemuscle]

I always wondered why they choose Vectors. I would think slot Mags would have been more correct for the look they were trying to go for. I always thought of the Vector style to be more suited to trucks.

is this why? Even though they are not vectors, these remind me of them:

the a-team van

[GL#10]

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The Hardcore Racing GL jump several years ago (the rich moron who briefly opened up a shop in Flint, Michigan) was one of these cars.  This was the jump that everyone was (justifiably) infuriated about because he insisted on jumping a legit 440/4spd car. 

Hans Ludke got ahold of the car after that and supposedly restored it.  Of course it probably just got rebodied"

Mike

You are right they it was a rebody on that GLE charger and it was sold to a guy in Australia , as a real screen used General Lee, he tried selling it for $350k  down here , far as i know , no one brought it .

As for the GLE chargers , the W.B had nothing officially to do with them or there build , they where built for the show circuit  .

K.c

[Ghoste]

So this GLE place was just a custom shop cashing in on the craze?

[WB General Lee]

Sounds like these GLE cars are just another way of trying make something out of nothing. It was not built by Warner Brothers crew or related at all so really its a Charger painted oarnge .  The Hardcore racing car is in my town and I saw it at the Woodward Cruise. When you talk to guys like this they always try to twist the car into being something more special. They are always saying things like, "it was thought to be used or I heard it was used". If you don't have proper documentation, then it is not what you say until you can prove it. Museums try this all the time. There were cars in Volo and Peterson and it is always advertized as, this is a promotional car used by WB or a variation of this. At Woodward cruise all day I heard people saying, "oh there is another GL clone" so I taped the title to the window. Some people really knew by looking at the car though.

My car had some new wheels put on it after a crash scene. It said something on the caps that was different I will check today and let you know.