Wasn’t it sold at an auction or put in a museum?

@@faceman2556 - it was sold at auction, the putz who bought it later put his tail between his legs and gave in and painted over it's flag. It's a good thing that car is mostly a reproduction. Not too much is left of Lee 1

@@danielmarinucci9342 As I asked above- has anyone actually seen a picture of Bubba Watson's "Lee 1" with the flag painted over? It's one thing to be a public figure and say something to protect yourself from a mob. It's another to do it.

@@PittsburghMarky - I see your point, we need facts not theories.

@@danielmarinucci9342 LOL Original trans and engine as well as frame and other parts, its got new body panels but it is hardly a reproduction.

Crane Auto Parts in Conyers.

That's right! Also you can tell it's legit Georgia with that overcast sky - none of the overly-bright southern Cali sun.

It would certainly have lasted longer and been better quality. You see a distinct quality drop starting in episode 6 and through the remainder of the run of seasons. Seasons 5-7 were another dropping point...

@@americanpatriot3638 When somebody orders a season of television, it’s all set up and planned in advance The first series was, what, the usual 13 episodes? They all would’ve been written before the decision to change locations, I think the only reason they did was because they went over their budget and physically could not afford it More Generals were already being built at their Georgia garage, if they could’ve stayed they would have A location isn’t a drop in quality per se anyway, the whole of the first series was written like this

@@suddysoap-barproductions4470 It did feel like there was a slight change in tone after episode 5, but the remaining season 1 episodes stayed mostly true to the grittier and smarter Georgia episodes. I still say the location change caused a dip in quality, though. There was an authenticity to the first five episodes because they were actually filmed in Georgia. They were never able to recreate that atmosphere on the backlots and hills of California, which I felt was a detriment to the show.

@@bfsgman Yeah, filming in California didn't automatically make it bad, but the plantlife in California looks completely different from Georgia and it's pretty easy to tell that it's not Georgia

The Georgia episodes aired at 9 pm. When they moved they also move to an 8 pm time slot which was considered family hour therefore some of the language and content had to be toned down.

Didn’t we all!

this is my favorite episode of the whole series and i've watched all 7 seasons

I see where you're going with that. Most Dukes episodes begin with a car driving (or being chased) on the road, almost always the General Lee (the obvious exception of Mary Kae's Baby). "Daisy's Song," "Luke's Love Story," and "Days of Shine and Roses" are the only exceptions off the top of my head (if anyone has any other episodes, please share here). But "General Lee was highly respected in Hazzard County" and "This Murphy, is he a race car driver?" are just great lines leading to greater lines.

I only liked the episodes in Covington GA. Episodes 1-5. The show was raw, real and Rosco was more of an actual threat, not a bumbling buffoon like he was later. I didn't mind the campy episodes later, but I like real better.

It is. I try to use it from time to time.

It was 5 episodes this being number 4 .

Oh yeah, I noticed. The tone was a bit more naughty and the weather was colder and overcast as well. The town looked authentic to. No $$$ in the budget for fancy sets or props. The Boars nest was real dim inside. Boss wasn't nearly as silly or comical, Rosco seemed more reserved.

@@gregorykern9679 The building used for The Boar's Nest is at 290 Flat Rock Rd. in Covington, GA. It has NO windows and two air conditioners keep it cool in the summer. This is why the Boar's Nest (which was actually called "The Rising Sun Club" then) looked so dark inside. I know. I rented it out for the second Dukes convention in 1999.

More natural look

@@MDJ-wb1pn I do agree with that. The town square in the first 5 looked authentic.

Travis Bell found it. Aneesh Seghal and I put on a Dukes con in Covington, GA, where this was shot, in 1999. Bell stayed around a few days and found it in a junkyard. Originally he displayed it in this form and trailed it to shows and such. I am not sure what the story was to restore it or how it got in Bubba Watson's hands. Regardless, has anyone actually SEEN a picture of Bubba Watson's General without the Dixie Flag? I'm wondering if it was just a story he told to satisfy the PC Police.

Marky Billson there’s a video of the whole story on Vinwiki channel. The guy who found it sold it but got it back and restored it. Then was sold at auction to that golfer dude.

@@dwb131313 i just watched it, came here for more research. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jMVyd7Kby6rZqXU.html

@@dwb131313 The car at the time of the "restoration" was owned by Marvin Murphy not Bell. Bell was hired to oversee the "restoration".

@@PittsburghMarky - credible witnesses have said he did it but I'm not sure. The car wouldn't depreciate in value if he would change anything. Homes that get national register of historic places rating has to be restored in the exact same measurements as it was or it's no deal. I'm pretty sure that classic cars get that same Rating. It would lose collector's value.

Not only that, it’s a big block Chevy engine.

@@justinstearns9723 yeah, and that engine bay is probably a 67 Nova or something. Battery in a Charger is placed on the other side

Yeah, it was two different shots.

The Richard Petty car is actually a disguised general Lee

@@terryking7927 Yup, Lee 1. That car was later restored back to its former glory.

It not a GMC blower it a BDS blower

If there was an Emmy category for "fun television" Dukes would have won. Thanks for watching!

That’s hilarious. 😂

A-MEN! AMEN! AMEN! Even when I was 8-years-old watching this as it aired for the first time in 1979 and 1980 I remember thinking "I wish they'd go back to the acoustic guitar because the episodes were better then."

Agreed! The story is that CBS never really thought it was going to be successful. I kind of get the feeling the show got the green light in large part because CBS was going to air the Daytona 500 live for the first time in three weeks and it just fit in to the culture of the times (Smokey and the Bandit a couple of years before, for instance). When the show did well, the decision to move it to California was basically for cost. But what you can plainly see is that the original realism that Gy Waldron wrote and created was Hollywoodized, so to speak. Instead of a show for country southerners by country southerners, you had Hollywood deciding what it should be and going back to that sort of disparaging cornball feel that's so prevalient when Hollywood tries to write south. You see Bob Clark wrote this episode. He was involved in Moonrunners and Porky's, two movies that might not have been critically acclaimed but were certainly southern and certainly NOT corny. I have always wondered what Dukes would've been like if it kept this original vision. I think it would have been a better show, but I also don't think it would have lasted as long on the air.

James Francis Tamburo JR the Georgia episodes are so good. They have such a different feel to it. Feels more like a drama, comedy, action show as oppose to what it became. I love the whole show but I have to say that it got a little corny once it moved to Cali

@@tommyg9719 It's the difference between the Gy Waldron vision for the show and the Hollywoodization of the show, which often is demeaning and engages in southern stereotypes. Waldron was very proud of the writers in the early episodes. Soon they found cartoon writers (literally) to write scripts.

Georgia just felt more real.

@@BillySinnz Even right down to the weather.

I hate to break it to you, but that car's roof still wears the confederate flag, and it is not on LEE1 no more

Dan Marinucci h

Amen brother.

D J Tanner how everyone back when the show was new watch it it was not just popular in America but the whole world.

Thumbs down to you to!

Well I am Canadian so🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

But I do love THE DUKES OF HAZZARD

@@fresh_labz1015 You're not a human being if you give this a thumbs down.

John Schneider said it was just a prop hung from a wire. No time to install a roll bar in all the chargers they went through.

Did not notice until I went back lol. Im surprised they let things like that slide. Easy fix.

40 years ago they never imagined that DOH nerds like us would be poring over the episodes finding [tons] of flaws. It's definitely fun. :D

Some of the roll cages were just the side bars hung from the ceiling to be seen as they were driving so i bey they were bumped into and moved around pretty easily.

Every in-cab shot of it depicts it as an automatic as well. I'm not sure what its intended to have as part of the lore though. The sound effects are of a stick because that's what was available for sound effects, and the cars were all automatics because the stunt guys hated stick. You'd imagine that if General Lee was supposed to be a 70's amateur circle track car it would have a 4 speed though.

John Schneider said they mad it sound like a manual but it actually was a automatic

The general has a slap stick automatic which is a 3 speed with overdrive

@@aidangreene2975 Chrysler didn’t make a automatic overdrive until the late 80s. The only automatic transmission that would have been in a charger would have been a 727 torqueflight, which is a 3 speed.

@@mattrodgers4878 thanks for letting me know, I wasn't sure👍

@Dave D . That'll fuck'em

They didn't expect people to dissect the show back then. They just wanted a picture of a big, beefy engine to make kids go "Ooooo.." when they looked at it.

If you were Boss Hog and made that comment to Lulu you'd be sleeping in your barbers chair at the Boars-nest. Lulu was a force to be reckoned with.

Yes BBC...the first thing that caught my eye was the valve cover on the right with the fill cap near the top.

Hahahahahahahaha

Its a big block chevy to boot. Also definitely not a mopar engine bay, probably a chevelle

That totally destroys the believability of a car that jumps 50ft into the air and drives away like it's made out of titanium and carbon fiber.

@@charlesvan13 😂😂😂😂😂👍

Two different shots. Notice that you only see the blower in that one close up

Do you want to see flying up?

The General Lees driven on the show by John Schneider and Tom Wopat were not rigged for stunts. The rollbars in those cars were just for looks. The actual stunt General Lees used by Paul Baxley's unit were properly rigged.

Losing a battle doesn't make him a poor leader. He was a great leader who defeated armies much bigger than his. I don't condone his personal views, however, but strictly speaking as someone who knew how to lead troops into battle, he was extremely competent.

None of the chargers were Power windows.

Not with today's transmissions lol the 727 torqueflite was a durable transmission

You can manually shift any automatic transmission like that. Granted newer ones tend to be really clunky at manually downshifting to the point you'd never want to do it if you cared anything about either going fast or having a long lasting transmission, but older 3 speeds don't mind it at all.

No. The converter can't handle that kind of abuse. After the 1st try the internal parts start showing damage. 2nd try, transmission fluid and assorted parts will be under the car. A lot of the parts will be scraped and the expensive converter gets rebuilt.

@@4valvemark98 - with today's transmission prices you'd be better off getting another car.

@@danielmarinucci7708 I'm sticking with my belvedere it never left me stranded, on the other hand my previous daily driver went through 2 4l65e's in 3 years driving 50 miles everyday to work. I've neutral dropped my belvedere too many times and yet that transmission took a beating all I've replaced are shift linkages and the fluid. older 727s are robust and easy to work on I love em. Although you're not wrong, today's cars can't do that and unfourtunatly they're all sealed transmissions. If something was to happen the whole transmission would have to be replaced instead of fixing the problem.

Which one? I practically have most of them. On the ColecoVision, PS1 & PS2. lol And yes I remember and love the video games, especially Return of The General Lee on PS2.

@@atranfanatic I mean The return of the General Lee.

MichaelMopar69 you can make it fit.

Reid MacKay custom oil pan

Elijah Noles there no 500 model used and no such 9.4 Hemi

Daedalx Al-Maurikanos hmmmmm crap car huh..... the car is more famous than the entire show

Which one? The General Lee, the fancy white car, or the one Richard Petty wrecked? (There will be war if you choose option 1)