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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Swager on January 25, 2006, 08:48:30 PM
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......is a great waste of a 69 Charger!!
:cry
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Actually, more like a couple hundred of them. I'd bet they had to replace each car after some of the big jumps they did (seemed like almost every episode).
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Published records now show that this car was chosen because the producers felt " that Chrysler produced enough Dodge Chargers (69,100) to always provide enough donor cars" for the shoot ... but, despite legend only 229 were actually used / abused during the filming over the course of 6 years....not the thousand's that people want to believe.
The second figure may be closer to reality for the Police Cars (600) sacrificed but, not the Chargers. The first 150 were 'grenaded' in the 145 episodes. The balance in Reunions and films. By 1985 (the end of filming), 210 were totally destroyed, flipped over, dumped in lakes / streams, crashed into barns, jumped over trains, crushed or burned.
The sacrificial Warner Bros.1st and 2nd Unit (abused) cars were all numbered on the glass "GL01" and up** after 1981. Some feel the highest value is in the 'abused' cars that were left...the nineteen real, General Lee's that survived... including the last one built, which is still owned / shown and driven by the shows star, John Schneider.... but, that matter is still open for discussion.
Part of the reason for the popularity of the car is that the 1969 Dodge Charger won 22 of the 54 major stock car NASCAR Races in 1969.
Source (http://www.classicdreamcars.com/69DodgeGenLee.html)
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ahhhhh, good 'ole 1969...... I was -6 years old. What a year though, eh?
".....just the good 'ole boys........."
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68 is a much better looking car.
lazs
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If that show was on today, wouldn't they (you know, ACLU, Jessie, etc.) say the southern flag on it is racist?
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
If that show was on today, wouldn't they (you know, ACLU, Jessie, etc.) say the southern flag on it is racist?
yep
Karaya
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
If that show was on today, wouldn't they (you know, ACLU, Jessie, etc.) say the southern flag on it is racist?
did you see the movie?
it is laugh out loud funnay!!! and quite enjoyable.
anyway, they do a bit with the flag on the roof in downtown atlanta, pretty funny. :aok
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WB sold all the remaining chargers to a Charger club for a very cheap price and gave the nicest one to the guy who went to the trouble of contacting them and aranging it.
Read about it here. (http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/corndog05dukes/mcg293.html)
It is a shame the new movie had to kill more.
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Originally posted by lazs2
68 is a much better looking car.
lazs
Hmmm... other than grill and trim aren't they virtually identical?
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Back taillights are different also.
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yeah... other than the trim and the interior and the grill and the headlights and the tailights and the back tail panels...
they are idnetical.
68 is a better looking car.
lazs
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As I thought. It's the same body for both cars.
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yes... same basic body.
The 68 is a better looking car.
lazs
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Originally posted by GtoRA2
WB sold all the remaining chargers to a Charger club for a very cheap price and gave the nicest one to the guy who went to the trouble of contacting them and aranging it.
Read about it here. (http://www.angelfire.com/ms2/corndog05dukes/mcg293.html)
It is a shame the new movie had to kill more.
That's an awesome read! I'm impressed how Warner Brothers treated the guy and that organization.
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Originally posted by lazs2
yes... same basic body.
The 68 is a better looking car.
lazs
If you say so.
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Originally posted by LePaul
That's an awesome read! I'm impressed how Warner Brothers treated the guy and that organization.
Yeah totaly.
Very nice thing for them to do.