Hero Car Showdown! General Lee VS Bandit Trans Am 

They sound amazing too. No stupid subaru boxer or weak turbo 4 banger sounds

@@Captain_Brown_Beard I just love classics but cant afford but maybe later on

Me too haha. Im working on an old bmw with a V8 in the mean time though until I can get a real classic.

@@Captain_Brown_Beard bmws are like one of my favorite cars you must have read my mind xd ha

I'm so jealous... I thought I was special with my old fiat 500 and with my friends AMC Pacer

It can still be done. Hollywood will find a way

Most of the original cast members have died. It will either be a typical butchered remake, spliced in scenes from stuff we've already watched, or entirely cgi. No thanks.

💯 Perseent and some moon runners.

@@peacebewithyou911 You right there they do not have any new ideas. Only past stuff with woke ideas.

@@adamsifford6228 Not everybody is into praising Hitler like some conservatives are.

Lastashio trans am does

Ok, honest it is. The Trans Am handles better, looks way better and put side by side with the same size engines in stock trim, the 400ci Pontiac would leave the 400ci Mopar in the dust. The Charger was a lot heavier and the Trans Am had better horsepower and torque. So, before all you Mopar guys start yelling "yea? Well let see it run against the hemi!", ok, the Hemi was an option in the Charger but the 455 was an option in the Trans Am.

@@jenningsmills5398 .. Actually the Street Hemi put out a peak hp of 490.

@@dochollywood4576 Sure, the 455 was an impressive engine, but we're talking about HERO cars here. No. 1: The Bandit hero car very clearly had "6.6" plastered on the shaker (the 400ci) which made respectable-for-the-time 200hp that pales in comparison to either the 440 Mag/6-pack OR the 426 Hemi. It's even outplayed by the 383 Magnum, which made 335 bhp. No. 2: The 455 SD (which made crazy power for the time) was only only used through the '76 model year. We're talking about a '77/'78 car here. And let's not forget, the Firebird had a curb weigh of roughly 3,600 lbs. The Charger was only 300 lbs heavier. Given the 100-200 hp gap (depending on engine), this is a pretty moot point. Don't get me wrong, I love the crap out of the Trans Am. It's been one of my all-time dream cars since I saw the movie. But saying the Firebird overpowers the Charger in a straightline is uselsess. The facts don't line up. However, the Firebird DID have a more modernized suspension set up and definately would have handled better. So when choosing between the two, it's really a pick-your-poison sort of deal. At the end of the day, it's important to remember that you're allowed to love multiple cars at once. It's not like your going to hurt their feelings. I''m a self-proclaimed Mopar guy through-and-through, but I love Chevys, Fords, Pontiacs. Anything from the 60s, I'm likely to enjoy. Heck, I love me some Japanese Muscle just as much as Detroit Muscle. Edit: Oh yeah, and saying that the Firebird looks better is subjective. If that's your opinion, that's cool. But please don't use matters of personal preference as arguing points. It just makes you look silly. That's just some advice from one angry commenter to another. Cheers!

T/A looks better to me

No

@@brandykienast852 well it kinda is bc there is no imports

Couldn’t agree more

Yep

Mostly because the lack of computer generated imagery or CGI.....(aka FAKE)!! That and I especially hate import tuner cars too! Junk!!

Breaking the law? Looks like they didnt get above 50 on the rd

I just relived my teens

Thanx son!

every gen x mans dream most of the younger generations arent man enough to get into these cars lol

​@@stevenricker791its still reckless driving or that's what a buddy got anyways for sliding around a corner in a old Dodge pickup in highschool. Didn't see the deputy sheriff hiding down the road 😂

Same, this guy is lliving the dream

I'd really WANT A ROADRUNNER with a 426 Hemi.

My brother still owns the charger, sadly I had to sell the Pontiac. Although I am more than happy with my F100 these days.

My dad has both of the cars. And he said he will give me the general lee. And brother is going to get the trans am

Travis Smith Amen,

Same thing with people thing the rebel flag is racist

@Travis Smith this brings back memories of The Dukes of Hazard for me too! I loved the General Lee back then and I still think it is bad ass!

Regardless of skin color if you think the Confederate flag is racist you're just plain ignorant go educate yourself.

Nope flag is racist

@Edgar Daniels Congrats on your wedding wish you 2 and family the greatest things in life and thank you very much for great people like you.. Sincerely Ivan...

@Edgar Daniels take care of your dream girl love her and respect her I lost mine and I haven't found anybody that made me feel like her I messed up and I wish I could take it back that was 11 year's ago and still single by choice just can't find anyone like her.....please take care of each other make your love grow.... Don't end up like me Brother if you ever in chino California get of hold of me we will have some nice cold one's in my farm ...

@Edgar Daniels much love brother Make America Great Again ..#1🇺🇸

you are welcome

What about fred

Quit smoking that shit

it was built for that shit

i was thinking that the whole time.

I know that if i was a car, i would much rather have some paint chips and dents, instead of getting babied all the time. i want to have fun.

both of them! A terrible way to treat a classic car. Keep em on the pavement.

paint chips aren't that hard to fix

Hey! and what about the "General Lee"?

Waylon Jennings (Duke's of Hazard) is Good ol boys. 😊

A techno remix of both. Lol

There is a edited version with music: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9kW7OBXsXck.html

FraJa1980 yeah true

Same

I like your thinking.

Been having that one for 30+ years myself

69Charger01 SAME I got in trouble for that today except it was a pond I was thinking of jumpin

And that will destroy the car and waste a rare car people need to stop fucking up old cars if you wanna tare shit up buy a car thats not rare like a new car

Heck yeah!

Thanks!

​@@AutoEdits Now do a video with A ROAD RUNNER with a 426 Hemi against the Charger with A 440, or the Tram AM with a 454.

Aarron Morton crossover

Well with the original dukes or the newer ones?

Charger vs pontiac 👌😆

@@AaronturnerPSN original ofcource

Seeing these two cars rip up the silver screen in a movie with the original cast woulda been the definition of epic.

Watching water boil is more enjoyable than football

Bo: takes and does crazy shit with it and doesn’t leave a scratch on it

Thedeadlygamer pay close attention: you can usually see the whole front fender crumple after a jump

Thedeadlygamer They used several hundred Dodge Chargers while filming Dukes of Hazzard.

@@superbird4351 yeah 68s. Same with the T/As. Alot of 76s with the prototype 77 front end. A few scenes where the T/A still has honeycomb wheels instead of snowflakes, cuz 76

@@CaptainFALKEN ya I always wondered about that. I thought it was just me going crazy about the rims changing lol. Thx for the info

This has the best soundtrack, the engines.

I mean, 16 American made cylinders of badassery and glasspacks, exactly how much hillbilly do you want?

No need to trash it up.

Yeah the engines might be awesome, but why not country chase music on top of the engines? That would make it complete

It’s called Bluegrass music 🎶 👍🏻

1Wild CamaroSS the best!

1969*

1970*

Bullet mustang deserves to be there as well, coming from a Chevy guy.

@@Rusty_Blazer The 55 Chevy from 2 lane blacktop coming from a Mopar guy :)

Concepción ok

Thanks for checking it out!

John Davis good old car

John Davis the trans-am from Smokey and the Bandit had two carburetors to maintain the high speeds in the movie. The General Lee had one(I think).

John Abell Jr ok???? so are u saying that bc youre saying a car with dual carb setup is automatically faster than a single carb? ot always the case. it would all depend on the intake manifold. an oversized intake manifold running dual carbs could choke an engine with too much fuel and air.

TheConspiracyFact2 thank you so much for being juvenile and immature and pointing out that my speech-to-text misinterpreting what I said. now let's think with the big boys and think with our adult hats on and think that maybe I was trying to say something else and not that. That was meant to say I commend these guys. But with your juvenile mindset I can see where you might think that I was trying to be gay with my comment. Now get off of RU-vid and go back to school I don't think that the 7th grade is out of school right now so go away

no.. the movie Trans-Ams did not have dual carbs.. the stunt cars were all 1976 TA (single headlights) they just changed front clip

Thanks! It was a ton of fun!

Bamboozel96 totally agree I culd never just stare at it I be driving that bad boy every day

Totally agree with the fact that they should be used and not packed away, especially these cars

Thanks dude!

Old muscle cars - there's nothing like it. Oldschool V8 forever!!

I'm a black man who grew up bin the seventies and eighties..both cars ruled.and Daisy's Duke helped a teenager dream good thoughts.

Thanks!

Reid Guthrie ...1977 Sally Field in a pair of Daisy Dukes.. holy shit!

Thor Teece proof?

Reid Guthrie 😱 😱😱😱😱😱😱

Glad you enjoyed it!

Just a couple of pussys, that's how they drove around, 2 pussys.,,where the hell was the show down.

JR Ewing probably cause they don’t want to trash two classic cars.

@@hankhill5622 your darn right Hank, I don't know hwhat he's talking about

Glad you liked it!

Agreed!

This was from a shoot I did 6 or 7 years ago for Hot Rod Magazine. The link to that video is in the description and this video has some of the raw and out takes that never got used.

Right on!

Hell yes forgot about that one.

Thanks!

Peter but box office remakes? Umm the dukes of hazzard beat Smokey and the bandit quite a bit

@@Shade_tree_garage01 are you really comparing a movie made in 1977 to a movie in the 2000s....there hasn't even been a smokey and the bandit remake to compare it to, and there doesn't need to be...I don't know the numbers but considering the remake of dukes was garbage, and smokey was the second highest grossing movie the year it came out, only behind a little film named star wars, I'd find it difficult to believe the dukes remake killed it at the box office if you adjust for the difference in ticket prices. Matter of fact on checking the dukes remake made 112 million and smokey and the bandit made 300 million....lol

jrvbamafan1 dukes of hazzard made 4 movies you literal nutsack, 1997-2000-2005-2007

jrvbamafan1 also, dukes still beat the bandit.

@@Shade_tree_garage01 OK you fucking idiot, all 4 combined still didn't do over 300 million, and smokey had 3 movies and that's not even counting the other two, so crawl back under your rock before you call me a nutsack you illiterate math challenged fool...

You're lucky. I always wanted a ws6 Trans am....I got a 2003 cobra back then though and don't regret it, but I would love to own a Trans am. My dad had a 78 when I was a kid, and it's still my favorite car to this day

Nice!

Tom Johnson What are the weight differences of both cars?

Paul O'Neal approx. 3,800 lbs charger, 3,600 lbs Trans Am. Nm of a factor.

I got to do extensive wrenching on a 77 Trans Am with the 403 Oldsmobile. The last thing to go was the choke pipe Oldsmobile exhaust. Would like to see how the 415 dyno power did in the car after the exhaust upgrade.

More horsepower is not always faster, ya gotta get it to the ground.

James Piper no trouble there. Leaf springs are the most efficient way & the design pushes the rear axle down..very firmly. If you watch a classic Mopar muscle car on launch, you'll note the rear end rise, not drop..along with the front. The best of these were the superstock type..extra curvature to increase that effect. Flatter springs are better for cornering, given an equal spring rate.