The Most Important Surviving General Lee from Dukes of Hazzard 

Thank you for saying that. It’s made into something it’s not. 👊

Hi five to my brotha...

Im an illegal alien and i love this car

I'm a random American of a random mix of random colors, and I love this car.

Tell me ONE time race came into play on this show. I’ll wait and I’M a BLACK MAN!! Doesn’t mean racism doesn’t exist but THIS show was about the damn car!!!

Lemmy K. Is God 😂😂

it taught me bad guys always drive sedans

you & me both brotha. but let us not forget SMOKEY & THE BANDIT as well. that pretty much started everything.

In the blame somebody else age. I kinda blame the Dukes, the Bandit, A -Team, Starsky and Hutch, Knight Rider, Canon Ball Run and the Fall Guy for my irresponsible driving and the need to slide anything I am driving around a dirt road corner. Plenty of them where I live. But damn it is fun and never gets old.

@@aleew20 who do i blame for my constant need to jump a creek, or a passing train, or a police blockade & such?

Vinyl sticker. No big deal and the Chrome Cars guys just want visibility for their company.

@@AutotopiaLA so then run an ad on the video?

I agree

Buy the car off the guy, and you may peel it off yourself.

They probably only put it on for the shoot.

One sticker ruins the entire car. Ok.

Dumbass sticker ruined the General Lee

@Nob the Knave Fuck sponsorship.

@@Blood_Goddess Fuck you

*Triggered over a sticker*

@@capcom7794 fuck you

@@gangsterlean7300 😢

Awesome!! Me too 👊

Nob the Knave no I’m guessing it’s because they wouldn’t be sellouts

@@jaboi1108 Sellouts? Bitch, you know how hard it is to make anything on the gay ass platform anymore.

A buddy of mine worked gassing up General Lee's in the morning (bunch of them on a car hauler) before the days shooting and, being a MOPAR fan almost cried at the end of the day when he saw them wrecked on another car hauler.

If they were in NASCAR they would have sponsors :P

@Nob the Knave because it's the 80s are you dumb?

And Airwolf and Street Hawk.

Carolus Magnus dumbass. After family ties you should have stopped the list. Asshole monkey garage sucks and is all fake. And where the fuck does flip this house fit into this line up? Moron

The executive producer of the Dukes of Hazzard, Paul Romeo Picard was my maternal grandmother's first cousin so that means he's my first cousin twice removed. Paul's father Romeo Joseph Picard was my 2nd great uncle and was my great grandfather's older brother. I even have old family photographs that has both Paul's parents in them his father Romeo and his mother Irene. I've also gotten in touch with his sister's granddaughter and grandson just recently. Where they told me that Paul's sister Claire is suffering from the early stages of dementia today and she's still living today in Maryland. I never met Paul himself growing up but I do know some of Claire's grandchildren and her children did know the man personally and has met him. The reason for that is the Picard family never had good family reunions both when my mother or when I was growing up. So myself or my mother never got to know anyone from her mother's side of the family all that much since they never once got together when I was growing up. Also I never once remembered ever seeing any extended family member from my Picard family ever coming to my grandmother's house not once when I visited her when I was growing up but only I got to know her mother my great grandmother only at her home and that was it. But I do think it would've been nice to have met my grandmother's cousin Paul before he died in Italy of Pancreatic Cancer in 1994. But the thing was we always did know about my grandmother's cousin Paul growing up because back then my grandmother did like to brag about Paul being the executive producer of the Dukes of Hazzard television show back in the late 70s early 80s according to my mother. The plus thing was I wasn't born until the end of the year of 1984 by the way so I was very little and I was almost 10 years old when Paul died and living in Arizona at that time.

Knight Rider was gay!

Hell yeah man I used to get out of my mom’s car by sliding out open window lol

Bobby Vinyle right there with you. Getting to do burnouts in this car was so cool 😎

AutotopiaLA thanks brother. I love your channel. You’ve got a dream job.

I agree & I have a bunch of the toys by Ertl Still want one of these but with a 4 speed stick

I was glued to the TV. A few years later, my dad became a private pilot and had a plane at a small airport. One of the repair facilities was called Schneider Aviation, it was johns father. he had a soap box derby car up on the wall, painted up in general lee garb. John was known to pop by at any time. Good stuff.

MrHillfolk great connections and memories. I love to see that soo many others loved the show as much as I did.

the sticker says www.chromecars(dot)de the website for the owners of the car which is why it's there 😤🤬 SMH it's only there as atheir advertisement SMH..!!

Bret D. It was incredible getting to drive it and do a few burnouts!

TrustMe ImAMechanic hell yes!

Aand the Lee is meant to be jumped/flied with

Hi there I'm from northern Ireland and to me it takes a lot of power to smoke the rears as your moving ,we over here don't have many cars that can do that , looks class

Where?

@@jimwright5492 I used to drive cars like that when i was a teenager, there is nothing like driving a big block V8 if you've never experienced it, it's hard to describe other than you have to learn to drive with that much power, they have so much torque it's easy to lose it if you're not careful, it's like driving a rocket. You cannot floor one of those without smoking the tires, that's the way real cars were/are.

I get it but they want to give visibility to their company and it’s just a vinyl sticker

Or it might be a 69 valance with the lights removed. The removed the reverse and side marker lights when WB started building the cars.

68 had the better rear end imo.

@@kevinvandeventer8690 agreed

Also 68's but still love em, after all dodge built more than 300:p

No one cared about cars like this back then except for gear head's, at the end of the 70's there had been huge increases in gas prices and bad inflation, in 1972 I was at the county fair with my family and half of the cars in the demolition derby were 55-57 Chevys, they're not classic until they get rare and old.

John Marston I hear you but they were 10 year old cars that no one was interested in at the time.

It is missing side marker and back-up lights.

it was probably a 68 converted to A 69. @@jamesdennis2058

Rodcognito 00 awesome!

Rodcognito 00 😁✌🍻✌✌✌✌✌✌🍻👏👏✌✌

@@AutotopiaLA and you let a German buy the General!! by history standards.....they didn't like Uncle Jessie! a WWII vet! and a German bought it! too many cars going overseas cause nobody here can afford it

The General Lee was the boss. Legendary.

Several weeks ago I had my picture taken sitting in another classic TV vehicle, the Sanford and Son pickup.

Cool. Stoked I got to drive it a little

That's actually not the stars and bars

@@weaslemin7728 I meant for the show.

I don’t know why people are so against the Rebel flag after all it’s a Democratic flag! Has absolutely nothing to do with Republicans.

If anything was racist about the show, it was stereotyping white country people. Jeesh. I agree nothing racist at all. Just a TV show.

😂😂😂"Tom Schneider" i think u mean "John Schneider"

Nothing rebel about the flag.....if you represent white supremacy then you should be proud of what your people did and are continuing to do to African Americans. You probably don’t even know the definition of the word REBEL means anyway. Stay racist and don’t change.

@@iamOAKland ooooh, I'm so offended. You called me racist. Oh well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x3SxEOvAOEg.html

@@iamOAKland Sooo I guess we should change everything in history because a few people don't like it? That's okay, in all future representations of WW2, the Nazi flag will be removed because a few babies can't hack it. Pussy.

iamOAKland lol butt hurt

Holy shit that was a beating. Please stop I cant stop laughing. Facts dont care about your feeling!!!!

But... he didnt put it on

Good ol Waylon Jennings the balladeer of the show

Just the good ole boys

Well said

I’m a good ole boy I know my mama loves me But she don’t understand Why they keep showing my hands And not my face on TV

BrianOnTheGo exactly! Playing with MB and HW cars while watching the show. LOL Dallas came on afterwards in my time zone...I believe?

Wade Perkin 👊

Too many leftists

I can watch it anytime I want on my DVDs. I have all 7 seasons and it is my favorite TV show of all time! I was watching it when it was brand new in '79!

😂

Good fact check here!

One mistake. All the cars had opening doors (ask Tom Sarmento the mechanic, I did) the "welded shut doors" was just a sort of running gag for the tie-in to stockcar racing and NAscar

flashy5150 such a great motor. This thing gets up and goes

C Carlson awesome!! Would love to have had Daisy next to me while shooting. Probably wouldn’t have brought the car back 😂

LRL Official glad you enjoyed this one!

Turbo 6 you get it. Couldn’t stop smiling driving this one 👊

Condolences to your to you and your family. 🌷🌹

Great motors for sure!

Killer comment here! I loved the trivia Bob had to offer. He knows the show, the cars and the history of picture cars as good or better than anyone.

Glad you enjoyed it! I’m the same...hardcore enthusiast

george reid love Waylon

I was going to say the exact same thing. I wonder if they have been on there since the car was used on Dukes or if they were added during the restoration.

Jason Wandling picture cars are like Lego’s on set. Grab this and put it there. Cool, now shoot!

Interesting.

this also was a vinyl top car ,why don't they removed the trim to it looks stupid.

@@dark_one1337 they were all vinyl top cars, because of this Chrysler never took the body filler or seems out of the rear pillars if you look close enough you can see it. and you're right the trim looks stupid

It’s just a sticker. Comical that with a survivor from the show that the sticker gets comments 😂

Yep didnt have it.

The first 200 people before you already said it shut the hell up

sean peterson and to do burnouts in it was amazing!

sean peterson I'm 42 and it's still my dream car!!!

Treva Graham I still dream about the general lee and kit from the night rider... and viscous mustang

@@ThePete2432 Indeed!

As “the most important general lee” is should remain authentic in my opinion.

James Clark certainly one of the most iconic cars ever produced

I'm a Ford guy and would kill everyone on the planet to have a General Lee

Im a toyota fan but i appreciate it, my grandpa had a few mopars.

Mopar dont go far.... But the General is a cool car...

95% of Dodge cars on the road are no longer on the road

The Charger is one of the most perfect muscle cars ever produced

@@AutotopiaLA I agree 100%

Matthew Mazzella 😂 wanted to do a good slide so bad but didn’t want to dent the hood 😂

Matthew Mazzella haha🍻😁

Haha, all the time as a kid!

Agreed...so amazing to drive this one

Awesome!! Love it 👊

Charles Kline definitely one of the top 2 or 3 for me

KITT comes close... but the General will always be the ultimate TV car. Of all time.

The tumbler is the 2nd great tv car in my opinion.

From what I’ve read they offer Charger owners 500 of that 1600 limit. Put into perspective the Chargers popularity pre-Dukes.

LincolnTek you and me both

Back in the 80s that might have been possible

Well, you need a time machine like the DeLorean and go back in 1979 and then pick one up for 1600$ and then you'll have to live in the 80's and meet KITT from Knight Rider head to head to compete with jumps.

65.000$ for a stock refurbished one last time i checked ...

Jason Peters Bob is a long time picture car guy and he said the doors did open but to keep the bootlegger/Nascar theme they climbed through the windows.

Jason Peter's, just wondered what do you mean about the door handles? Ok I'm a former Grneral Lee owner, it would suck major ass if the doors were really welded shut. Its murder on the door skin, the door and your back. Plus how would you shut the windows if it was raining or you wanted to lock it up? I would always get a good laugh when I'd go to a car show open the door to get out and a grown adult would spaz out that I did'nt go through the window. I'd still own my lee had it not have been stolen. If you get the chance. I highly recommend getting one it is a huge blast all the time.

@@AutotopiaLA Uncle Jessie had to get in too.

Watch the series again lol even as a 5 year old I saw all the scenes where the doors would move while driving

My mistake they still kept the door handles on I thought they took them off

It is a true icon and still being driven but now lives in Germany with my friends Chrome Cars

@@AutotopiaLA It is getting closer to Scotland at least 🤣

Brenton K awesome!! Such a cool piece of American muscle car history

@@AutotopiaLA yeah! They don't make cars like that anymore.

Kurt Poblenz agreed!

NOOO WAY THE BEST/MOST IMPORTANT TV/MOVIE CAR IS IMO THE 67 SHELBY GT500 ELEANOR) FROM THE GONE IN 60 SECONDS REMAKE WITH NIC CAGE IN IT AS "MEMPHIS RAINES" RETIRED MASTER CAR THIEF 😅'NUFF SAID AS ANOTHER COMMENTER PUT IT 🤨😅..!!

Ryan Beers lets agree to disagree on this one Ryan....

Me too. I grew up on this

And it’s just a simple sticker for the company. No big deal although some folks are freaking out here!

And it’s just a simple sticker for the company. No big deal although some folks are freaking out here!

Hoagie Sherlin awesome! Such an iconic car!

It needs compression from the engine

Mr. Nationwide there’s a few tweaks to be done on this car including the slow horn

Could be a under rated cable to the compressor

Roger Goodman fair call. I’d still go with this one as it’s the only 440 RT left from the show

Roger Goodman is day Lee1 is the most important. Bubba Watson owns it here in my hometown.

@@Pcola70Chevelle Didn't Bubba paint over the flag on the roof?

Mike Gibson No, he just has a big magnet covering it. The kind you see on a business/work truck door. Its color matched to the general.

When Warner Brothers sold the 17 cars, they kept one car that went on to star in the reunion movies and the 2005 remake! Its currently on display as part of the Warner Brothers Studio Tour! Even if the car that WB still has isn't a 440 RT, would the fact that it went on to appear in the movies make it more desirable than this one? While some might argue that it is, it is not likely to end up in private hands. This is arguably the most desirable General Lee that Chris from Chrome Cars could buy...

I should've said of the 17 surviving cars that Warner Bros sold off a number of years ago. The number one car you're referring to wasn't one of the 17.

Yours is absolutely impressive and what a find. Love that it is unmolested. Great car.

Fayette Fishing Outdoors 👊

To be fair Daisy was smoking hot, i wanted to 'slam' her too.

Fayette Fishing Outdoors *their cousin

Sounds like my family reunions

That car is a fraud barely anything orginal on it. The guy who found it is a scam artist. It's basically a replica car now

@@bb-gc2tx with that kind of thinking there is no original car out there... it has its original drive train... just because all of the panels were replaced does not bring anything away from how it was saved and restored.

@@bb-gc2tx so because they used donor fenders makes it a fake???? so does that make every thing that is fixed a fake??? The Mona Lisa has had work done on it so i guess with your train of thought its fake too??? how about the statue of liberty or the Washington Monument or White house or ANYTHING just because it has replacement parts on it doesn't make it fake.

@@jaro2608 yes it does

@@bb-gc2tx lol your a clown

😂 funny comment bro 👊

So true...a slow horn sequence meant a scary jump and freeze frame followed by a commercial

@@looseele I can't believe you left out "short, suspenseful Waylon monologue"... for shame.

Glad you enjoyed it. So cool that it’s a rare survivor from the show

Thanks for the comment and great story. Sorry to hear his health is failing but I appreciate you sharing this with us 👊

matthewboylez34 a little slower but it makes it even funnier for me

In a couple of years, driving any car yourself will be a crime. AI is the future.

Reginald Fitzpatrick 😂 makes it even more fun to drive

Reginald Fitzpatrick if you knew what a hate crime really is you wouldn’t have the audacity to compare the two and disrespect the millions of black Americans, Native Americans who lost lives from your white supremacist family members you piece of shit human being.

@@iamOAKland thank you. You just proved my point EXACTLY friend =]

What’s happened to our country? 🇺🇸🇺🇸

I know. This was so cool to drive and even the slow horn didn’t bother me...thought it was funny

You and me both 👊

Tim Taylor many people would argue the 383 is faster then both the hemi and the 440....

john schneider on his youtube channel just a few days ago said the generals had all kinds of engines in em when they got em but he also said that they only had one 440 car and it was totaled cause it sunk to the bottom of a lake before it could be jumped

@@jonmeray713 My dad had a 383 4 speed Hurst. Lost the cops twice. He drove 440 cudas and said exactly what you said. Why? Simple. Weight.

Sorry...it was really fun! And the slow horn was cracking me up. Such a fun episode to shoot

Crazy!!! Did the car survive?

AutotopuaLA: I managed to stick a perfect landing! Lots of noise dust and scraped up concrete, but drove the car for 3 more years. FYI always wear your seatbelt when attempting a jump.

At least a lap belt and make sure its really tight otherwise your head will contact the ceiling