If the General Lee had been a Chevelle instead of a Charger

[Ghoste]

If they had used a Chevelle or Torino instead of a Charger would you still have become a Mopar person you think or did the DOH imprint itself on you that whatever car the Duke boys drove that was the direction you were bound?

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

Mother Mopar has always built some cool cars, but the DOH has left a serious impression on so many... 

[Drache]

I mostly grew up on my dad's stories of him and his cousins with my dad's charger long before I ever watched the Dukes. DOH just clinched it though.

[Cooter]

Charger is a Charger and a Chevelle is still a Chevelle. I have owned/own both, and both offer different things. Although, the Charger being chosen to be the most iconic car ever created, is just a stroke of genius, and icing on the cake.

Richard Petty drove plenty 1964-1974 plymouths, but doesn't make me wanna go out and buy one, paint it blue with a huge "43" on each door like the DOH does most people. It's the popularity of the show, how it connects with so many that draws folks to the DOH..Of course a good looking car doesn't hurt either. I'm gonna say doesn't matter what type of car it was, the General Lee would always be the General Lee for my generation.

[doctor4766]

It's hard to say if I would have liked the DOH with any other car... possibly. But it was how it was.
Maybe someone could photoshop a Torino, Chevelle or Camaro dressed up as a GL. Might have looked just as cool?
No smart cars, no tractors and no Capris though...

[Charger-Bodie]

Its hard to answer that question honestly. Chevelles have some cool features, they just dont have it all. They look heavy, if you get what I mean. The Charger looks lean and mean.

[TheGhost]

Never really been a Chevy fan.  Don't think a flag on the roof and numbers on the door would have changed that.

[paironines]

My mom had a 69 Charger and my uncle a 68 at the same time, so its safe to say that I'd wind up in a Charger.

[JT01]

I grew up in a camaro family which i own a 71 SS but the Dukes is what got me into Mopars

[Drache]

Now if my dad hadn't of rolled his Chevelle end over end almost killing himself and a friend... he never would have bought the Charger and I might have grown up a Chevy Boy....

[Old Moparz]

If they had used a Chevelle or Torino instead of a Charger would you still have become a Mopar person you think or did the DOH imprint itself on you that whatever car the Duke boys drove that was the direction you were bound?

I'd still be into Mopars, but I'd start an orange paint factory since there were trillions more Chebbies out there that people would be turning into Generals & I'd be rich.   

[41husk]

Chevells are cool but they don't have the lines like a 2nd gen Charger.  I sat in cudakens garage one night stairing at his 69.  The next day I was on line looking for a 2nd gen.  More addicting than crack

[Ghoste]

This is a surprise then because all of those topics where people are going on and on and on and on about how the GL is the greatest thing that ever happened to Chargers and how the 300 sacrificed for the show pales alongide the the thousands of Chargers that are only on the road because of the DOH runs counter to what I am reading here. 

[resq302]

I grew up watching the show but fell in love with the car cause of the sexy lines of it, not because it could fly through the air with the greatest of ease.  (its the landing that needed work)   

[Mikesmoparperformance]

The lines of the car the beauty of it did it for me. If it was a Chevelle or Torino Then i still was a mopar fan. But would no the Charger a bit later on. When I saw the show I thought that car i must have!

[Mike DC]

 
Plain and simple - I got hooked on the car because of the show.

But it might never have hooked me as hard if it hadn't been such a gorgeous car.  Hollywood is all about visual images.  I might want a Vanishing Point replica a bit more if it had been a white 1970 Charger R/T instead of the Chally.  IMHO the Challys don't look quite as good as Chargers.   

[bobs66440]

I was always a Chevy guy up until I got my Charger a couple of years ago. Chrysler products always seemed a little odd to me I still do like many Chevys, but I've gained a true respect for Mopars, and I love my Charger more than any other car I've had for sure.

The show had no effect on me at all. For the most part, I didn't really like it.  

[Ghoste]

At the risk of insulting the GL fans though Bob, I would consider you to be more of a mainstream Charger fan.  It's the DOH Charger lover that I asked this question towards.
And it sounds like trolling as I read it back but it isnt, it was a question that arose in my little brain from a number of comments in a variety of threads.

[41husk]

I don't know the 70 Challengers look pretty sweet and could be had in convertible, RT, SE and TA.  It had a mean stance and all drive train options. 70 was by far the best year for the Challenger.  I know I can sit and look at them both for hours on end, and there is nothing like putting the top down on those perfect days

[rarefish]

My comments might surprise some, but I never really watched or cared for the show much when it was on. When I watched it, it was for Daisy Duke. I never was really interested in the GL and always thought of it as just a TV prop. During the mid 80's when GL's copies started showing up at car shows, I thought how embarrassing it would be to admit that you owned such a car and who in there right mind would do such a thing to a Charger. In those days if you were 15 and under you might get excited about seeing one, but any one older would usual laugh at the sight of one. I know people today who still do.

[charger_fan_4ever]

Always had a sweet spot for 67 camaros. Hugger orange with the flag on the roof I could see it.

Mind you it was more the bullit movie and DMCL that got me hooked. I watched the DOH as a kid at the time. Still watch it. Cool it was a charger, but I liked the show itself. Was sad to see them wrecked.

[Brock Lee]

I was a fan of the car first and foremost when this show was new. A Chevelle would not have been as cool to me. Why? There were two on every block. I would look for Chargers because I loved the General Lee. Usually I saw 1968 and 1970's, which were close, but not quite the same. Even then, they were only something I saw here and there, not daily. The Charger was a little more elusive because they were not all over the place. At that time Chevelle's and Nova's were literally everywhere. A Chevelle would have been no big deal at all as they were not special. And there were many other models using the exact same body watering things down.

[Indygenerallee]

I am a Mopar guy first and foremost, My last name was a Chrysler,Dodge,Plymouth dealership! Mopar is in my blood and it will never go anywhere I loved the Dukes as a kid but the 69 Charger is a 69 Charger one of the baddest musclecars ever built imo, to myself getting one was like laying my hands on the holy grail!

[Kern Dog]

If the show had used a Gm or a Ford, yeah... things would have been different. The Dukes would have been doing engine swaps every other episode, running down to Cooters trailer park for advice. He'd stop cooking crystal meth for a few minutes to give them advice as well as a long, paranoid rant about intrusive government and surveilance implants that were placed into his brain when he slept.....

I remember seeing Chargers before the show, but TV really cemented the image into my brain. I DO give the show credit for the popularity of the car.

[Fred]

The lines of the Charger did it for me