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[edit] remove the ad link

The General Lee Fan Club link at the bottom is the link to an ad page with NO useful info —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.160.241 (talk) 09:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

Looks like an informative site to me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.20.157 (talk) 06:55, 8 February 2008 (UTC)


I removed spam for a guy selling General Lee decals. He keeps posting the ad even after many other remove it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.20.157 (talk) 06:56, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Confederate flag on Xtreme Lee

but with a slight change, including the Confederate flag.

This is unclear. Was the flag removed? -- Temtem 15:56, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
i agree. changed it after looking at the pics. SaltyPig 02:37, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks. -- Temtem 03:27, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] landings

if anybody has definite information about what landing attitude was preferred, please add it to the article. from watching the first 4 seasons (and listening to john schneider's comments), it appears that the flat landings were unquestionably the worst, but i don't have enough sources to add that to the article. SaltyPig 02:57, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Flat landings were not desired. Rear first landings were preferred, but had drawbacks. The car would often have visable damage after hitting ramp in mid air. The impact would also be more dramtic as the car would usually bend rear down first, then slam the nose into the ground. In the early days they would follow through these jumps (The episodes Carnival of Thrills and Dukes meet Cale Yarborough are classic examples). Later they would cut the landing out and replace it with a small hop landing, or an interior shot of the actors acting like they landed. (jimshine)

[edit] Don't ya'll love the Audio of the horn!

Love the Audio of the horn! Makes my three dogs tilt their head, and one being a hound dog/ American fox hound, starts barking....LOL-Woof ! Scott 18:59, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Someone please fix "History"

This bit from the History section makes no sense:

The cars required the front entire front clip transplant from a 1968-69 car, which was the parts damaged worst in the jumps. Obtaining cars was not an issue until later years. By that time the car was the star of the show and Warner Brothers moved building of the cars in-house to keep the cars consistent in appearance. This is when we see side marker and rear backup lights deleted on 1969 models as well as 1968 (which we see from the start of the show).

It needs to be fixed, but I'm not 100% sure what it's trying to say. Is it refering to a "front clip transplant" or is that supposed to be "front end transplant"? Also. the last sentence is quite hard to make out. First person should probably be avoided, but that aside, it's just hard to tell why something that happens later in the show's run was also seen "from the start of the show". -Harmil 21:51, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I just went back and read that part of the article and I must say I am having a hard time trying to figure out what they are trying to say, myself. However, we can assume that by "from the start of the show" they are more than likely implying from the "first scene of the opening of the show," rather than "beginning of the series." Wavy G 19:40, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

To clarify the points above: Front clip is a term used to describe the exterior sheetmetal of a car. It describes all the components that make up the front of the car. Fenders, hood, grille, bumper, headlights, all of the parts that make up the skin of the car. They had to remove the 1969 and install all of those components on a 1970 (thus transplanting parts from a 1969 to a 1970). Yes, start of the show meaning since the start of the series 1968 Chargers were used. The key component here is to keep out the myth 1970 Chargers were used on the show. (jimshine)


i'mnot concerned as much about this as i am the fact that author and performer of the theme song is not given his credit...it is always unmistakebly thought to be johnny cash...WRONG!! It is infact Waylon Jennings! and you can take that to the bank...i didn't say Johnny cash never covered the song...but that deep voice that is all to often thought to bo oh so low that it must be the man in black is indeed waylon Jennings.

joe howell

That piece of trivia is stating that a song about the General Lee on the Dukes of Hazzard soundtrack was performed by Johnny Cash. It was worded incorrectly (said "title song," which of course would actually be "Good Ol' Boys"), so I fixed it.

[edit] Someone fix Myths section

Where did this come from? It looks like it was directly ripped off of another webpage and very informal compared to a typical Wikipedia article. Klichka 01:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Not exactly sure what you're getting at. You say it looks informal compared to other pages, therefore it must be plagiarized? That doesn't really make much sense. Wavy G 03:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

My dad had a real General Lee. I hate to break your heart, but most likely did not. These cars were valuable to WB. After a jump the cars were dismantled of all parts and the roof skin was cut off before being taken to the scrap yard. WB insisted this be done so nobody would attempt to rebuild these cars. The ones that did make it out were some gifts (like Waylon's car), and the cars leftover after the show wrapped up.

I might be wrong, but that looks very much like it was ripped. The writing style is very, very, wrong for a Wikipedia article. It's so wrong that it seems reasonable to question if the person wrote it on their own in utter defiance of the standards or copied it from somewhere else. Klichka 07:18, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I see what you mean now. That must be a recent addition, because I don't recall seeing it before. Whether it is a copyvio or not, it was all original research and completely unsourced. Not to mention the "I hate to break your heart but..." style writing is not exactly up to Wikipedia standards. I went ahead and deleted the whole section. Thanks for the heads up. Wavy G 08:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Not sure if this is the one I had up a while back or not. Though I built the main body of this page from scratch, I was also adding to it any time I submitted info on web forums or to others web sites. Often I do not get any credit, so it is hard to know what is being stolen and what is truely my own creation. In the future you can be assured anything I add is my own and if it appears elsewhere on the web it is because I shared it with someone else. (jimshine)

[edit] 12 notes?

I count only ten. dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun! --frothT C 07:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

No, twelve. Although, thanks for spelling out the notes for us like that. It didn't really help your argument, but it was quite amusing. Wavy G 06:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

haha! you guys crack me up! twelve. end of story. "then - i - wish - i - wa - s - in - the - land - of - cot - ton" GarrettJL 07:13, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Expert Review

I'm guessing it's ridiculous B.S., but just thought I'd ask you folks to review a recent addition to Publius Valerius Publicola. -Crimson30 05:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] tiny grammar fix

Just made a little change, in the section about exit and entry, "Nevertheless, there was the odd production mistake in the TV shows, where the doors was actually shown being opened to let Uncle Jesse in." "where the doors was" changed to "where the doors were" to be grammatically correct. Cthon98 22:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

But get people to show you where the doors were mistakenly open on the show (not in behind the scenes pics). They can't do it because it doesn't exist. (jimshine)

[edit] de-italicizing Traveller

While named conveyances are typically italicized (i.e. USS Indianapolis), this rule does not apply to animals. As an equine example: Secretariat. Ribonucleic 16:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural reference?

This was added to the cultural references section:

 *Based on the Korean alphabet, Lee, the 2nd most popular surname 
 is characterized as "이", thus explaining the number "01".

I have a hard time believing that an LA based production company making a southern TV show would be using an obscure korean reference. Does anyone have anything that might show this to have a shred of reality? Improbcat 16:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

That statement is false. They originally wanted it to be #1, but Gy said they all agreed that an "odd" looking number would look better. So they added a zero. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.20.157 (talk) 22:14, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] dukesofhazzardhistorian

An anon acount repeatedly removed the link to the lee1 webstie, and added links to a website (dukesofhazzardhistorian.com) and book by the same person. I restored the lee1 link and removed the promo paragraph twice, and it was only with repeated warnings on their user page that they stopped trying to insert it into the article. I even suggested the post the link on this talk page and get people's feedback. Instead they've inserted it as an external link under "Georgia Era Information" (at the top of the list of course). I've poked around the site, and it does have some interesting and unique information, but I'm not sure whether it should be a link here or just considered another "fan site". Thoughts? Improbcat 17:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


Improbcat, thank you for restoring the Lee1 site links. There are a few people trying to remove the Lee1 links on a personal agenda. Keep an eye on it as it will likely be changed again. For what its worth, there is only one official Lee1 website, and that is www.generalleeone.com. Though we do use the domain names www.generalleeenterprises.com and theoriginalgenerallee.com, they all forward to www.generalleeone.com. Thanks! [jimshine] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.20.157 (talk) 06:34, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

There was more vandalisim to the Lee1 info that I just fixed. This time changing the verbage in "The Original General Lee". —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jimshine (talk • contribs) 21:28, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Design

I think the Charger is based on the Barracuda's design, but who's design the General Lee? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.95.20.159 (talk) 05:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)