What about the guy who was building them? Who has stated it was Corvette flame red.

Aaron Sanborn The experts are absolutely right to put our health first.

ok... and now i'll take this TO A VERY VERY VER SPECIFIC LEVEL, ok because i think it deserves it let's talk facts FACT - He was there, i don't think anyone can or should question that FACT - He's a car guy, ok, fair enough, let's give that a degree of respect as well FACT - There is no such thing as a MUT OF ORANGE, but i'll explain that later FACT - YEAH SURE... if they threw a few colours they had in the workshop together and then THAT, was the original colour of the general lee, then... so be it But.. this needs to be understood as well... when you research Colours and Colour Gamut's and colour codes and how the frequency of colour works, you start to understand that .... When you mix any two different colours or any amount of different colours, YOU WILL END UP WITH A DIFFERENT COLOUR from the one you started with THIS IS NOT A MUT it's just another colour now... the name of the colour is irrelevant , what is important is HOW THAT COLOUR WAS MADE UP and the way you can tell is BY USING A SPECTROPHOTOMETER (in simple terms, an analyzer that analyzes the make up of what colour or colours has gone into a mix IN WHAT RATIO'S To make up the existing colour you are analzying SO.. why doesn't someone just get an original General Lee and take a Spectrophotometer to it and instead of fucking around with what the name was WHY DON'T YOU ALL JUST FUCKING FIGURE OUT THE RATIO'S OF ALL THE ORANGE'S THAT WERE PUT TOGETHER AND THEN CALL THAT COLOUR.... GENERAL LEE ORANGE how fucking hard is that The ratio's of one colour to another are important, not the name. because let's take blue for example you can go to ford (for example) and they have a colour that is called BLUE and it's made up of this and that in whatever ratio of one to another then you can go to holden and they have BLUE but holden's blue is not the same ratio mix of one blue to another or white or whatever so... the name doesn't really matter , the name just assigns a name to an existing mix or ratio combination of colours SINCE WE DON'T KNOW THE RATIO, the name is irrelevant like i said GET A SPECTROPHOTOMETER on an original general lee (which would be the hard part, i would imagine) and then.. to be really fucking accurate, you have to account for wear and fade of the paint over 40 years but... let's just say that someone from the crew in the pain shop had a can left over with a bit of ORIGINAL GENERAL LEE PAINT left in the can from 40 years ago i reckon you could take a reading from that and establish the exact colour of what was used on the general lee then from that.. RECORD THE COLOURS AND THE RATIO'S AND GIVE IT A NAME call it GENERAL LEE 01 for all we care, it doesn't matter so.. that's what needs to be done i'm not questioning john in any way, i'm just saying a colour is not a mut, if you made a new colour then you need to know the ratio's HOWEVER.. IF THEY DON'T KNOW, THEN...... Given we've had crashes and 40 years of fading i suppose... the ABSOLUTE EXACT COLOUR is then lost forever and all you can do is do your best to get an exact match, as close as you can that's all you can do

@@martinkuliza With all of the "F" bombs you could be mistaken for a liberal, be careful! Your right however, but the thre device you are talking about is not 100%accurate. Ive used them and still had to make connections. But that's the nature of ther beast.

So apparently someone had the original trunk lid, that had been stored indoors. And they had the color scanned with the spectrometer or whatever. The name of the color that came back to be an exact match was "TnT express.". Which is a color used by a foreign auto manufacturer for vans. Not saying they ordered tnt express and painted that color...I'm saying that they scanned the new color they created, and found an existing exact match. So someone wanting their car painted that now, could look up tnt express and find the ratios of everything. Still might not be "exact", as they scanned 40 year old paint....but that's as close as we're gonna get

YOU MAKE ME. FEEL SO SAD YES. I LIKE THE GENERAL LEE CAR IS WILL IT IS SO COOL.

You sound like me! I can't tell you how old I was when I discovered the Dukes, must have been '79 I'm thinking... But I as girl I got hooked FAST! Toss up between the car & Bo! Every Friday night w/out fail I was at my Grandma's - we'd make pizza and dessert & from 8p - 9p was the Dukes for me & 9p - 10p was freakin' Dallas for Memeir (G ma) we did this until she passed away in '83. That line up brought something special to Friday nights! I WOULDN'T even go out w/my boyfriend on Fridays!

There's 2 or 3 replicas around here. Buy you a 69 charger, paint and add the graphics. Get some replica wheels put on and ur in business.

Maybe because they've said "Orange man bad" way too much 🤣🤣😂

@@s.b.8258 Maybe, but I think it's just that they want to put a specific color to it, rather than just accepting that it was orange, and any shade of orange close enough will do.

@@andaros2106 How about Hazzard Orange?

Come to find out it was actually tnt express

@@user-lw8jk6nv7l thompson national transport express same orange they used on their trucks , the reason tnt had their own paint is because back in the day they owned their fleet outright and would re build trucks instead of trading in or buying new ones , over a trucks life time they get banged up and scratched and repairs happened in house , i heard stories of diff or gearbox replacements taking a couple of hours because they had full replacements on hand and dings would be popped out with a mallet and given a lick of paint and off you went , things are different now days but

Someone that calls people snowflakes= Trash

@@cosimfre2651 Rather hypocritical of you.

The snow flakes are offended by General Lees' beautiful ORANGE Color.

I agree a lot

....a car for those who love freedom

What was it like when it happened?

Lmao! Love The Dukes and The General Lee 🧡🧡

I have six general Lee model one done very well in a showcase 2 never opened 1 all hopped up with a blower coming through the hood one painted Gray and another in a showcase with two deputy cars

I got a 68 Ford mustang model painting greys blue with an American flag on top double zero on the doors and it's called general Grant

I couldn't make up my mind when I was a kid - was it orange? Red-Orange? Some orange-y kind of red? Definitely a unique color - only the General Lee has it!

@Marilyn Snider I have, at least, the first season of The Dukes Of Hazzard on DVD! I watched the episode, and I believe it was the first episode, where they “painted” the General Lee in Cooter’s garage and in that episode they mixed the paint for the General Lee in that very manner, every color they had on hand to come up with an orange color cause they needed two full gallons of automotive paint to cover the General Lee and Cooter didn’t have two full gallons in his garage!!! Now, I’m sure that was done specifically for that episode and that to real General Lee had already been painted before it was unveiled on TV in that episode, cause I know that you can’t paint a car overnight and have it ready to roll out of the paint booth in under 24hrs! In most cases it takes a solid week for the paint to fully cure before it can be wet sanded and buffed out!

Ironic, that was the name of Boss’ old runner in the show! 😂

The first general was green tho

Why not do them all? That way you have the true theatrical versions and the "could have been" versions.

Too true !! Now you'll be seeing "Confederate Grey" "General Lees". You'll start hating that color! I'll spare you the full size version, but I must see it in 1/25 or 1/24 scale. If I can get your fan mail address, I'll send you one.

@@JeffCKeane - No fan physical address just yet.. Work has been taking up most of my time. Check me out on Instagram at the_neniwa When I've finished both models (I've obtained a 2nd General Lee kit) I'll be sharing them there, one Orange, and one Gray.

LMAO!

Or mutt orange.. 😁

The man who built them and Warner brothers has stated it was Corvette flame red. Some theory that Lee 1 was painted hemi orange but they painted over it's original color and it didn't cover well enough.

@@chadjustice8560 I still take John's word of a so called "Builder"

Corvette flame red is not res. It's orange lol just find a Corvette painted that color. It looks just the general.