General Lee Stunts

23 facts you might not know about the dukes of hazzard. Sheriff big ed little police car turn over enos police car jump the bad guy car turn over and the grand finalethe iconic jump of the general lee. Stunt car 20 which performed several screen used rear end slides fish tailing the drifting scene around lee circle and the final racing scene when general lee was being chased by black shelby.

general lee stunts

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The stunt managers welded steel boxes into the trunks of the cars and added weights as necessary usually 300 400 pounds.

General lee stunts.

We provide four major stunts.
Its right up there on cultures pedestal with kitt from knight rider or bandits pontiac trans am.
It is known for performing wild stunts especially high jumps in almost every episode and for having the doors welded shut leaving the dukes to climb in and out through the windows.
General lee stunt car from the 2005 dukes of hazzard movie featuring jessica simpson johnny knoxville and seann william scott.

The train stunt was initially supposed to jump the general through the open doors of a moving boxcar but budget restrictions changed it to a simple jump over the train.
What a sight to see.
The dukes of hazzard featured many daring stunts via its starring dodge charger with 320 reportedly employed throughout the shows 147 episode run.
How the general lee works.

The general lee jumps into history.
The general lee is the 1969 dodge charger driven by the duke cousins bo and luke in the television series the dukes of hazzard and the subsequent films.
20 stickers in door jamb and cross member under hood.
The dukes of hazzard stunts and crashes in slowmotion musclecarfan01.

Bo and luke dukes general lee remains the most iconic small screen car ever.
The general lee was a neon orange charger with 01 painted on the doors a confederate flag on the roof and a horn that played the first 12 notes of the song dixie it belonged to the dukes of hazzard themselves the cousins bo played by actor john schneider and luke duke actor tom wopat.
Mixed in between all four stunts is all the drama and action that tells the story of the dukes of hazzard.
To make the jumps work general lees had to be weighted down in the back to compensate for the weight of the engine in the front.

General lee destroyed by fire fifteen years of fun.
Two lane blacktop captures the dukes of hazard general lee charger flying through the air behind cobo center for the kick of the 2017 detroit autorama.
However the general lee is known best for taking on huge jumps clearing rivers gullies highways other cars and even trains.