Wanted any pics and information on LEE4

[528hemicuda]

I got a rolling 68 project that needs alot and ive always been a duke fan since i was a kid and the 1st memory i have of watchin those episodes back in the day and that made me fall in love with the dodge charger was that scene with the general lee tearing up the grass behind that wire fence and after discovering and searching through the cglfc site i found out that car was LEE4 of the early georgia cars, so anyone who is an expert on the dukes show( i hear jim shine knows his stuff on the dukes ) please help me out with a few questions cheers skyler

LEE4 questions

1#What engine did it come with from the factory?(And was it stock looking like lee1s engine or aftermarket valve covers,air cleaners and headers?
2#What color did it come with from the factory?(I would like the engine bay,door jams and trunk to be the color it came with from the factory)
3#Was it a console car?
4#What type of roll bar was in it? (I hear the 1st batch of georgia cars had a few with real roll cages but all were different from each other)
5#What size tires did these 1st georgia cars run? and what type?
6#Did it have a sport steering wheel?
7#What cb radio and antenna would this car have had?
8#What colour interior dye do i need to paint my dash,steering wheel,door pads etc.?

p.s heres a pic of the LEE4 car im talkin about

also can anyone posts pics 4,6 and 7 on this page http://www.cglfc.com/lee4.html as they dont show up for me thanks

[Magnumcharger]

I'm another guy who was completely blown away by the General Lee when I first saw it on TV!
I hated what they did to the car(s), but BOY, did I ever want to watch!

Good luck in your quest to find the answers!

[jmeekins33]

Funny, I've been researching this car alot lately.  It's one of my favorite Lee's and I am a huge fan of the Georgia episodes.  I was the one who started a thread about Lee4 on the CGLFC.  The only answers I have for you are.......


The antenna was a radioshack "teardrop" style model 21-908a

The CB should have been a Cobra78x but I'm not sure if it was ever seen on screen for this particular car.  I'd heard that Lee4 was originally supposed to be nothing more than a parts car.  They might not have even put a CB in it.

The roll bar was fake/removable


Good luck in your search. 

-Jason M

[Charger_Fan]

Just to satisfy my curiosity...why Lee4? What makes that one more special than any of the other Lee's?

[jmeekins33]

Well in my opinion it's because Lee4 was one of the first 68 Chargers that they made into a General.  I'm pretty sure it was the first Lee to have the side markers deleted.  There is just a few different things on that car compared to the others because it's a 68.  For example, it doesn't have the chrome trim around the tailpanel like a 69 does.  A few people with 68 or 70 Chargers have tried to pattern their General Lees after Lee4.

-Jason M

[Mike DC]

LEE#4 was indeed bought as a parts-car.  It was a '68 that they got locally during filming.  I think it was another 383/727 car but that's not for sure. 

It was the first converted '68 car, first car with the deleted signals, etc.  The funky too-high door numbers in "Daisy's Song" disappeared quickly and the car continued with another set of more accurately-placed door numbers from then on.  It was used into the California shooting and showed up throughout most of the first season.  I've suspected for a while that it was the car that Gary Baxley jumped at Indian Dunes (the infamous "stix river" jump from the starting sequence) but that's never gonna be confirmed. 

It got a spray-job interior, although some of the parts were borrowed off other LEEs with factory-built tan interiors so it was kind of a mish-mash.  The '69 taillight panel that it got came directly off LEE#/#71 after it did the first jump at Oxford College.

It had several different rollbar configurations.  Everything from duct-taped hunks of tubing on the sides in GA, to a 4-point rollbar in early Calli shows, and then the Indian Dunes car had a full rollcage. 

[Dave22443]

There's one other significant difference with the LEE4 car pictured above.  This was probably the only General Lee I ever saw where all the windows were rolled up   

[joflaig]

Unfortunetly, there is no such thing as standard GL. Of course there are a lot of shared commonalities that existed during the history of the show that you can follow: cb radio, tan interior, roll bar, push bar, paint, etc...but once you get into drivetrain I think there is much less known. It was all over the spectrum. I myself would get bored trying to recreate a particular version GL. I have a preference for the georgia versions, meaning the style of the painted graphics and the narrower push bar for example -- but as for the rest I want to make it my own.

[Mike DC]

   
The short answer is that the cars were subcontracted out for the first half of the TV series, and then the cars were built in-house by the TV crew for the later half of the show.  The subcontracted cars had most of the variations and it caused problems.  The WB-crew-built cars were almost totally consistent.   


Subcontracted cars. Season #1-4:
Smaller pushbars, tan/brown interiors, rollbars painted tan/brown, and 1969 cars still had signals & backup lights, and sometimes wheelwell trim.

WB-crew-built cars.  Season #4-7:
Wider pushbars, light beige interiors, black rollbars, no signal lights or wheelwell trim on either 1968 or 1969 cars.

[warriorbass05]

   
The short answer is that the cars were subcontracted out for the first half of the TV series, and then the cars were built in-house by the TV crew for the later half of the show.  The subcontracted cars had most of the variations and it caused problems.  The WB-crew-built cars were almost totally consistent.   


Subcontracted cars. Season #1-4:
Smaller pushbars, tan/brown interiors, rollbars painted tan/brown, and 1969 cars still had signals & backup lights, and sometimes wheelwell trim.

WB-crew-built cars.  Season #4-7:
Wider pushbars, light beige interiors, black rollbars, no signal lights or wheelwell trim on either 1968 or 1969 cars.

They're all good though!!!!!  I am building one of my own...68 also but the car I have in mind is in Season 2 and appears again in an "out-of-order" episode called "Uncle Boss"
Here it is....notice the 68 reflectors are still there, just painted over....I am going to recreate this car...

[Mike DC]

I've got nothing against one era of the GL or another.

The early cars weren't as consistent but they were more like the classic picture in our heads of the GL than the later ones.