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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Would You Buy This General Lee?

Posted December 10, 2009 12:01 AM by dstrohl

This is documented as one of the original Dodge Chargers bought by Warner Bros. in 1978 for use during the Georgia filming of the first episodes of Dukes of Hazzard. For the first episodes there were a total of 8 Dodge Chargers bought by Warner Bros. to be used as General Lees.

This particular General Lee disappeared in 1980 when Don Schisler, transportation coordinator for the Dukes of Hazzard, sold the car because of the amount of attention he got with it. People would see the car in his drive-way and actually stop at his home looking for "the Duke boys"!

The car was sold to private hands and just resurfaced in 2008 when we purchased it. Only about 1500 miles had been put on the car since Schisler sold it in 1980. The asking price today? $110,000 (USD).

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Re: Would You Buy This General Lee?

12/11/2009 9:11 AM

No.

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Re: Would You Buy This General Lee?

12/11/2009 4:56 PM

No; but I will say It looks like a Matchbox.

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Re: Would You Buy This General Lee?

12/19/2009 4:34 AM

The car will certainly get attention on the streets but I won't buy it. There are far better vehicles than this that costs over a hundred dollars.

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