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CoastinHome
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Was blown away that they sacrificed over 300 of these 1969 Dodge Charger R/T's over the course of shooting The Dukes of Hazzard!
Links:
- Roughly Two General Lee Cars Were Totaled Every Episode
- The Orange Paint Color was from Chevrolet, Not Chrysler
- The Interior Color on the General Lee Car was Called Saddle Tan
- The Duke Boys’ Car Was Named After a Southern Civil War General
- The General Lee Car Horn Played the First 12 Notes from “Dixie”
- To Buy an Authentic General Lee Car is more than $100,000
- The General Lee Jumped a Record Making 16-Feet High
- Finding a General Lee Car to Buy Has Never Been Easier
- The Duke Boys Car Was a Dodge Charger
- The General Lee Had Three Different Displacement Engines
- Top 5 Mistakes Made When Building a General Lee Car
- The Nuts & Bolts
Also...
The Dukes of Hazzard Crew Gets Desperate
In addition to the link above, the production designers also resorted to buying orange AMC Ambassadors and modified them to resemble the Charger in the show's later years.
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screenersam
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