General Lee 5 Mistakes People Make When Building Their Dream Car

So today we're going to talk about the five

mistakes

people

make

when

building

a General Lee. Five

mistakes

. What is mistake number one? Simple interior color. I don't know why, but many times

people

have black

general

sheets. interior we never had a General Lee that had a black interior once it was painted orange, okay,

when

we first got the General Lee. Honestly, I don't remember when we first got the General Lee when we showed it to you on happy birthday, General Lee. Don't know. Remember what color the interior of that black car was. He may have been black, but he was never black.

Once the car was orange. Now mine is a little different. This one is very special. It's got these fancy pedals. By the way, in my car. a brake pedal only for the rear wheels and I like it, I like all this because it keeps my foot from slipping when I press the brake accelerator or the rear brake for you young people, and I don't know what this is, that's right how you turn the high beams on and off, click, click, click, click, that's the number one mistake people

make

, number two, the second biggest mistake people make when they make a General Lee is they think they just is there a way to do it no, yes we never had the black interior, however there are many variations on the

general

sheets that we made here.

I'm going to show you a couple of them right now, they usually don't have a roll bar because I drink a lot People go out for rides in my General Lee and having the roll bar here is just a pain in the ass so I chose not to have it there if I wanted To be more precise, I would sometimes put in a roll bar now. We actually had a piece of roll bar right here hanging from a cable in the ceiling just so you could see the roll bar as we went by, but if you watch Dukes of Hazzard, you'll see us a few times where we don't have a roll bar. , this body line disappeared and many of our generals leave because there was a lot of bondo here.

Same thing with the body, since it got all the way to the back, that line disappeared a lot now, a lot of times in the show. You'll see this marker light isn't here, that means it was a 68. Sometimes you'll see the round marker lights, but I think it's very strange that they made that mistake and left it like that. There is another body line on top. here this was the number one place for rust in general feces right here behind the tires and that would be Fred the cat hey Fred you would notice this would go away we had a piece of stainless steel here on some of the cars but on many We didn't like any of them personally.

I like it without the stainless steel because I like that this line is unbroken now a lot of times on older cars, especially ours, because we didn't do a lot of body work, we just wanted to make sure they did it. run and be able to jump another day there's a seam right here that Chrysler never bothered to cover up because every one of these cars, every one of them had a vinyl top, they were two tone, it was usually black here and then green or white or yellow or whatever color they had down here, but they didn't bother to do any body work or put any filler in here because no one would ever see it because this was covered, so the water is going to get trapped here and it's going to rust. eventually, here's a mistake that people make when they make

their

general lees, this window should be convex, out comes the first pair of general leaves that I made.

I didn't realize that and it seems to me that they should have been put in a cave if they go concave they will leak completely like a sieve so convex now my flag is hand painted and yes

their

arcs generally lean overall , but this is hand painted a lot of times on Dukes of Hazzard, this right here was actually medical tape, white medical cloth. tape that they put here to simulate the flag now some people are saying that they see photos of the General Lee without the windshield wipers because many times we did not have the windshield wipers on because when they jumped the car not all the time but a Many times this was actually a piece of plexiglass.

They removed the windshield and put plexiglass there so the specialist wouldn't be in danger of any glass breaking and blowing his face off. Yes, I have air conditioning in my General. Reads and works this is not the correct steering wheel but that's okay I like it too my General Lee is my choice and that doesn't make it any less of a general blade in my opinion mine has white lettering on the tires just because I like it we never had letters white ones on the Dukes tires, now something else, we also had two different sized push rods at the beginning of the show, in the first five episodes of the show we had a small push rod there, then we moved on and graduated to the largest big.

One reason we really used it we started doing things where we would run into people and when cars would get stuck, Uncle Jesse's car would get stuck or Boss Hogg's Cadillac or even Daisy's Jeep, guess what vehicle came to the rescue to push it. the General Lee, of course, is common, generally mistake number three. Now this, of course, is when people use the 68 and it has a rear view mirror on the passenger side. We never had a rearview mirror on the passenger side. Now it has a 69 charger. a rear view mirror only on one side sometimes I see the one on the General Lee with rear view mirrors on the right side or the passenger side too and that means it is a 68, the stainless steel bottom now this it doesn't have the stainless steel bottom, very few actually had it the bottom stainless steel because there's a lot of bondo down there and most of the general goes away and it's hard to keep the stainless steel on this body line disappears on a lot of our generals, this line of the body disappeared and many of our generals leave because there was a lot of bondo here, the same with the body, since it reached the back, that line disappeared a lot now, many times in the program you will see that this light marker isn't here, that means it was a 68 at times.

I'll see the round marker lights, but I think it's very strange that they made that mistake and left it at that. There's another body line here at the top that tends to disappear when you add more link. Oh yes, that's my reflection. it was the number one place for rust in general feces right here behind the tires and that would be Fred the cat hey Fred, keep going buddy come on keep going thanks now a lot of times you would notice this would go away. a piece of stainless steel here on some of the cars, but on many of them we didn't personally like it.

I like it with the stain or I personally like it without the stainless because I like this line to be unbroken now a lot of times on older cars especially. ours because we didn't do much body work, we just wanted to make sure they worked and could jump another day. There's a seam right here that Chrysler never bothered to cover up because every one of these cars, every one. They all had a vinyl top, they were two tone, it was usually black here and then green, white, yellow or whatever color they had down here, but they didn't bother to do any body work or put any padding in here because no one You would see it sometime because it was covered, so water will be trapped here and it will eventually rust.

Here's a mistake people make when doing their general stools. This window must be convex. The first couple of general sheets I made come out. I didn't realize that and it seems to me that they should have been put in caves. If they go into concaves they will absolutely leak like a sieve, so convex, now my flag is hand painted and yes they are usually arches. but this is hand painted many times in Dukes of Hazzard, this here was actually medical tape, white cloth medical tape that was placed here to simulate the flag, now some people say they see pictures of the General Lee without the windshield wipers a lot times.

We didn't have the windshield wipers on because when they jumped on the car not all the time, but a lot of times it was actually a piece of plexiglass, they would take out the windshield and put plexiglass in there so the stuntman wouldn't go crazy. In danger of some glass breaking and flying in your face. What's happening? Come on, I look like I'm, look, you know, I look like I'm going fast, okay, here's a mistake that people make often, in general, mistake number four, many, many times. I've seen General Lee's where it's still painted bad orange, it has to be black and it has to be matte black.

Sometimes I see people where this is painted gloss black and it's also wrong, it doesn't look good, this was done, remember this car was designed in '67 and '68, so we hadn't been to the moon yet, a lot of the cars that they had this kind of thing on the back, as I understand it, that was made to simulate a rocket exhaust, so what it does is cool when you don't do it. You don't have this painted and you don't have it matte black, it just seems wrong to me and it's wrong, however someone says oh I remember I saw in general that I had that thing that was painted orange, yes you did, it was a mistake. in Hazard Goes to Hollywood or Hazard in whatever the first reunion movie was Hazard in Hollywood or Hazard Goes I don't remember the name but I was in it and I was in the running at the beginning one of the first takes that What we did when we filmed that that TV movie was the beginning of the race and we had to go back and grab cases of moonshine and throw the moonshine in the trunk and jump in the car and drive away.

Tom and I were looking at the General Lee and saying something's not right something's wrong with this car and what happened this is crazy what happened was the producers who were so far removed from Dukes that they hadn't made Dukes in several years They looked at a diecast model, there is a diecast model, it's the small one, the 124, I think it has that orange on the back and that's how they designed the General Lee. You'll also notice in that shot that the numbers are too small, the O is too small on the doors, that's because It was all the research they did, they looked at a diecast car and then they painted the General League, so we went with the transport captain and we told him this is wrong it should be matte black and the guy said you're right and the next he went and got a can of black spray paint, some duct tape and it's duct tape, by the way, no it's duct tape, it's not duct taped, that's fine and he fixed it and the rest from that shot, but overall it was fixed, however, that's not the case. the first shot you see in the movie, you'll see in that movie the back is black, black like it should be and then all of a sudden for no reason it's orange and then it goes back to black, that's why now Okay, number five , the 68 didn't have a sight here a lot of times, you'll see it generally, it just has a shiny blank piece here, if it's a 69, if it's a General Lee, I should say fuel now, of course, we had some of that.

I didn't do it because we use 68. Some people said we also use 70 on the show and I have to be honest with you. I don't remember ever ever using a 1970 Charger for a general permit, because well it's simple 70. The Chargers had that big stainless steel front piece, so this wasn't part of the hood on a 70, it wasn't part of the body line on a 70 and I'm here to tell you that changing that hood and adding that line to a 68 with bondo was too much work for any of us there was no time there was no time for the Department of Transportation to do the job they was required to make a 70 front end look like a 69 I just wouldn't have done it, there wouldn't be any reason in the world, okay, I'll give you a bonus.

The number one question I have received through all your questions on Facebook and YouTube is what happened to the crossed flags on the back of the General Lee well that is simple as I already told you we had 280 cars at least a minimum of 280 cars that sticker was exactly that was a sticker you can see when the young man is squirting orange drink on the window and I say what are you doing son, it says squirts and flies, you can see it as clear as day back here you will also notice that no I have the CB antenna here, I have ordered it and I am going to get it, but I don't have it here.

I also cover this car a lot and it's a bit of a pain to keep putting it on and taking it off and they make them that are magnetic and I don't want to scratch this paint. I had a magnetic Uno in my 511 Hemi and it scratched all the paint. I don't want to do that, so the stars, the crossed flags here, the American flag, the rebel flag, where did that go? Why wasn't it in all the other cars? impossible to replicate, so once the producers found out that the show was going to be a hit, they had to make sure this car was easily duplicated over and over again because they realized they needed everyone they could get their hands on. hands now the flag. it was easy to do, you could do that, they had stock days, your kids would cut out stars out of construction paper and stick them on top of the car, they could paint the blue with spray paint, they could paint the red, they would paint with spray paint and As I told you, the white was usually medical tape or just duct tape, so they did it, but it was a stickervery complicated, the flags crossed, so there was no way they could duplicate it over and over and over again.

Now today they could just make a decal and put it on there, but that added a little bit of time and when they were turning these cars around, we needed to have cars every day, they had 13 General Lees ready to go anytime, anywhere . day, so it wasn't practical to follow that particular sticker. I miss her. I thought it was awesome. I would like to get one for mine and maybe will in the future. Alright. I will be here again. Check it. I'll leave next week. I'm going to answer questions. Do you have any questions about Smallville or the haves and have-nots?

Ask me. I'll be happy to answer them unless you're asking what's going on between the haves and have-nots in January, then I can't. Answer that, okay guys, take care of yourselves. I'm John Schneider. I'm going to cover my car again. Oh yes, they are ready for this. free thanks for watching christmas cards christmas cards are going very well redneck rebel is going very well. I appreciate his support of everything we are doing here. I left.