Movie/TV Chargers

[WB General Lee]

Here is another cool shot

[MoparManJim]

That jump car, wouldn't that be the very one that they used in the 07 film where the Bo ran into a tree while trying to feel the road in the dust? 

[Mike DC]

                         
That one in the foreground (front wheels on skates) is gonna be the jumped car from the 2007 TV movie at the end.  

The meat of the jump footage over the huge canyon was CGI, but they also did a regular size jump on flat ground with this car for the takeoff & landing footage.  

[Ghoste]

As an aside, the one used to set up those jumps (I don't believe it appears in the movie but on the dvd it's the one that gets shot up onto the freeway and misses it's landing so it goes carreening off into the guardrail) is now being used as a sign for a junkyard just outside of Toronto.

[nascarxx29]

The one off supercharger was in a movie called Truck Turner .And on this site you enter the car of your choice and you get results of what cars of any make that were in a particular movie
http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle.php?id=134567&PHPSESSID=e0f632043bc86fda7d78ac9f5d885093

[GL#10]

Hey

Mike you are right that jumped GL , is #12  ,it was a pre cooter charger in the 2005 movie , redone for the 2007 and jumped ,  Wayne has it and #6   along with his 2 tv series gl's .

K.c

[Mike DC]

         
Yeah, the damage from a jump is different from any other type of collision.  It's hard to miss once you know what to look for. 


It's cool that Wayne got one of the newer movie cars. 

I'll never dig them like the TV series cars, but I really think the modern crew did a good job building the new batch of GLs overall.  Most of the differences were just minor changes for practicality or product placements they were forced into.  I actually like the movie rollcages better than the old TV cars. 

   

[lexxman]

I don't know,its still weird to see the doors open on the general.

[GL#10]

Hey Mike

Yes the cages where done better , by the same guy who did the tv cars A.J Thrasher , at least they never cut into the dash like the did on the tv series cars , My movie Gl cage is very close to the full cage i have in tv  sgl13 .

I actually think they did a better job on the movie cars ,as in appearance , the movie gls did not look so cheap in the way they where put together .

K.c

[Mike DC]

I actually think they did a better job on the movie cars ,as in appearance , the movie gls did not look so cheap in the way they where put together

Agreed, the movie GLs got more individual attention to detail by a long shot.  You can tell that much more money went into each car for buying and setting it up.  Hollywood just used to be faster & cheaper 30 years ago before home VCRs revealed all the rough spots.

I think the 2005 rollcages are probably what they would have done 30 years ago if they had ever sat down and planned out the closeup GLs when they first started the show.  The original 2-point dummy bar was probably just a single rushed job by the Georgia crew that got copied for 6 more years.    


SGL #13 is just plain badass.   A true veteran of the GL lifestyle.   I'm glad at least one of those real jump cars survived without having all the crudeness restored away.    

[WB General Lee]

Its really amazing that noone got hurt during the series. My General Lees have very different cages. The second one has a heavy duty cage. I am going to beat on that one a little I would love to jump it to see what it can do but no happening

[Ghoste]

I can't believe no one was hurt.  If they weren't at the time I'd bet there are a couple of sore backs today that were created back in the day.

[WB General Lee]

Here is another picture.

[Mike DC]

Cool pics, WB.  You really got busy with the camera on those shopping trips.   

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I can't believe no one was hurt.  If they weren't at the time I'd bet there are a couple of sore backs today that were created back in the day.

Major understatement there.  They cracked plenty of vertebrae on those jumps.  There are a number of fused back & neck bones today because of it.  

They eventually came up with the bungee vest deal around 1980.  That's the only reason they could repeatedly fall from 10-20 feet in those cars and walk away from it.  It didn't totally eliminate the problems but it helped a lot.    


The main reason they were landing those cars diagonally nose-down all the time was to take some of the sting out of the impact.  The show's producers wanted the cars to land flatter but the stunt crew said no.  (The cars came out just as dead either way.)  

[WB General Lee]

I would have had lots more but that day when I got off the plane I was nauseated from the ride. I remember I had an appointment and I almost told my buddy forget it we will wait until tomorrow

[PatrickPeeters]

Well two of those cars are in my garage now. I will post more pictures when I get home.

You own two cars may i ask what they where asking for a jump car?

[WB General Lee]

I had to sign documents with Warner Brothers lawyers so I rather keep that private.

[The70RT]

So your going you are going to leave them crashed like that and never drive them?

[PatrickPeeters]

I had to sign documents with Warner Brothers lawyers so I rather keep that private.

They really do that?
No worries, I was just courious.
But very cool that you own those, what a ya gonna do with them?

[WB General Lee]

Ya they drew up a two page liability agreement that I had to sign. They told me this was the first timein history that they are going to  selli a car to an induvidual so they had to figure out how to go about it. They are a huge corporation so they wanted to cover themselves but thier head lawyer is a super nice guy. There was alot going on at the time, WB was on strike so it took about 9 months to take delivery. I received a folder with DMV records and pictures of my car all over the movie set which was neat.

Neither of my cars are smashed. They are stunt cars and have both been jumped. They run and drive great in fact I drive the first car at least once a week. That car is mint. I put about 3000 miles on it since I owned it.  I bought the second one because I said if I ever sell the first one then I may never get another one. Now I like both cars. I did own the original Boss Hogg Cadillac and sold it this year and I kinda regret that so I had to replace it with something. We have a movie thing going on by me. I hang out with a bunch if guys who own movie cars like original Monkees. At the Woodward Cruise we had 15 movie cars all together.

I do want a winged car so you never know I may sell one. For now I am getting rid of a few other things. I love to keep them all but tough to keep them up.

[PatrickPeeters]

Cool!

[moparstuart]

 My buddy sold his two cars to them for a buck each and then he got to buy them back for a buck .

[WB General Lee]

You're buddy is a lucky guy I never heard of that.  Were they Chargers? They must have been for the TV show I am guessing. Did he get a Warner Brothers title?

[jb666]

Hey Mike

Yes the cages where done better , by the same guy who did the tv cars A.J Thrasher , at least they never cut into the dash like the did on the tv series cars , My movie Gl cage is very close to the full cage i have in tv  sgl13 .

I actually think they did a better job on the movie cars ,as in appearance , the movie gls did not look so cheap in the way they where put together .

K.c

I am curious, and I'm sorry if it's been covered already, but I heard Hans "built" some of the cars used in the 05 movie??? Is there any merit to this?? Back 2.5 years ago it was his big claim to fame, that he was "Warner Brother's Big Builder". 

[Mike DC]

      
Every car that was onscreen in the 2005 movie was painted and dressed out just for that movie.  Even if the crew got it with an existing GL paintjob of some kind.  Even the handful of older GLs that Warner Bros itself sent down to Louisiana were redone inside and out.  

The parts interchangeability and continuity problems of mismatching cars would have been too much of a PITA.  They were swapping body panels and parts all over the place as cars got damaged and hastily repaired during filming.  Better to wipe the slate clean and start with totally matching cars.    



Hans supplied about half a dozen overpriced bondo-buckets wearing GL paintjobs.  They were used purely as Dodge Charger raw material, not finished GLs by any stretch of the imagination.  

Somebody else can correct me if I'm remembering this wrong, but I think a couple of Hans's Chargers actually ended up being used as cable-launch jump cars.