A General Lee jump finally done the right way.

[bamadukefan02]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKumsUVz6oY

In the description it even claims the same car was used the next day to do another jump.  Its nice to see that they can have a stunt show for the fans without destroying a car.

[Ghoste]

I'm usually one of the first to complain about them wrecking cars for these things so I guess its a better thing that this one was jumped more gently.  Was the Sunday jump an easier one too?

[myk]

When I take over the planet such deeds will be outlawed, punishable by death...

[Ghoste]

 

[tan top]

  got  feeling  it was  destroyed on the sunday jump    ?

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

The general was fine after the jump on Sunday


The show was great and only casualty was a rite on one of the Roscoe cars which blew out during the chase.


It was truly amazing to watch in real life

[Ghoste]

Was the car modified to jump in a less destructive fashion or was it the ramp or what?

[tan top]

The general was fine after the jump on Sunday


The show was great and only casualty was a rite on one of the Roscoe cars which blew out during the chase.


It was truly amazing to watch in real life

oh right  !! thats good to hear    was thinking it was along the lines of  getting more people to go , seeing a charger get jumped twice , saturday warm up  , &  sunday !! off the charger went to the great junk yard in the sky !!

this sound & looks the way forward then !! if  there  are  people still needing  to jump these chargers 
that sort of  jump with a landing ramp , build a space frame chassis & cage & hang charger panels on 

[Ghoste]

Yeah, space frame with AMD panels.  I still wouldn't understand it but whatever.

[Cooter]

What are you guys complaining about? With every one that's destroyed, the value of your "goes up daily"....

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

I didn't see the car up close to notice modifications, but it was the General fro
Cooters in Nashville that was used for the jump.

The car reportedly was just gone through and repainted. It was much nicer than many on the hill that weekend!!

The jump was a ramp to ramp type, clearing 40 ft, at least...

Cool stuff!!! And no Chargers were harmed in this activity

[mopar0166]

No major mods to the jump, i had sub frame connectors, the torision bars wound up and new heavy duty shocks. thats it from what i was told after the show by the stunt cord.

[Back N Black]

OK, go back to destroying charger's because that was Gay!

[bull]

I talked to James and Bob Smith about this stunt a few weeks ago when I went to their place to check things out. Bob and James were building the ramps for it when I was there and the idea was to take it easy on the car while giving the crowd a good show. They love Chargers as much as they do the DOH so really, if you gotta do it, this kind of jump is the best of both worlds. I'm pretty sure it was James who did the jump.

[Indygenerallee]

Pretty cool!

[Mike DC]

           
What really breaks those cars is the vertical fall & impact.

A landing ramp takes most of the violence out of it.  It's pretty easy on the car as long as they hit both ramps just right. 

[c00nhunterjoe]

Its cool to see it jump the way the show implied it works where th car lands gracefully and keeps gettin' 'er done.

[UH60L]

I've always found it interesting how people are able to calculate the speed and angles and such to make stunts work the way they are supposed to.

I suppose these days they use computers to do the calculating.....

The life of a stunt man must be an interesting one, the thigns they get to do....     

[Ghoste]

So it would be fair to say they are still destroying the car but much more slowly?

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

So it would be fair to say they are still destroying the car but much more slowly?

Really, the car looked fine, body and all, after the jumps

[resq302]

From what they said on Friday at the opening of Return of the Killer Shrews movie, all that they needed to replace was the shocks on it during the pre jump inspection.  Everything else was in good shape.  And yes, that is Ben Jones' personal Lee!

[Ghoste]

Hmm, interesting.

[SRT-440]

That was more entertaining than seeing someone do a unrealistic jump that completely destroys the car upon landing...I don't think the point of this show was the "jump" but the chance to see Bo and Luke being chased around in person. 

[resq302]

actually, Bo and Luke were not really being chased at all.  They had lines hours long waiting to see them.  I know Tom Wopats line they cut off at around noon time on Sat because there was a 3 hour wait and it ended at 5 pm.  Plus they had lunch breaks and all too still to do.

[Ghoste]

Surprising Wopat was even there.