Boss JD Hogg

I think Daisy should have ended up with Enos.  It's too bad they went that way again in the reunion movie.  
I'm with RogerDuke, Hazzard County hasn't changed.  I have all the seasons on DVD and will continue watching them forever and remembering the show that way.  
BTW, I've never seen the 2005 movie and most likely never will. 

Here's a picture of the General Lee from 'The Ghost Of General Lee'.  It was actually a white Charger.  The orange glow was added in post production.
 

You have a much sharper eye than eye do!

The scene with all the body panels falling off Rosco's patrol car is from the chase at the end of "Mrs. Daisy Duke" (season 4, episode 1). First the front fenders, grille and hood fall off, then the rear fenders, trunk and doors, and finally they lose the roof driving under a low tree branch. Rosco's driving, Cletus is riding shotgun, and Boss, Jesse and Flash are in the back.
 
Rosco P. Coltrane - master of understatement!
 

 

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing it. This thing looks like it would have a chance in a race against the real General Lee. Well, maybe not since nothing can beat the most famous car in the world....still, this is very cool and he is now my favorite drag car racer. I wish I could write his name but this stupid spell correct won't let me. How did you do it Boss? 

Thanks Roth for posting this link!

The General Lee is all finished!  I took some quick pictures but the lighting inside isn't so good today.  I'll try to take some better pictures soon.
BTW the CB antenna is held on with a magnet so I'll be able to remove it for some pictures.
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I've enjoyed following this build, so I'm almost sad it's finished . What a great job you've done!

Roth - Thanks for the nice compliment!  I had fun working on this one.
I'll try and get some better pictures soon.  

Awesome, just awesome man! There's no self build General Lee which is this detailed!

Here's a couple of pictures with the engine in.  The radiator hoses still need to be added.
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This will be the newest addition to the Hazzard Garage fleet!  Anyone who follows HossC's research will know that this particular configuration isn't actually a wrecker that appeared during the series, but to the casual viewer (or even most hard-core fans), you would never know it.  It combines elements of several wreckers seen in the series, but isn't a match for any one vehicle.  It is, however, a match to the wrecker that you will find if you visit the Cooter's Place in Nashville.  That particular wrecker also appears on all the merchandise sold at the Cooter's Place museums and website.  So I figured since my garage model will be at the Gatlinburg Cooter's for this month's Hazzard Run, I should have their tow truck parked out front.
 
I combined parts from two different model kits, but had to scratch build most of the rear towing rig to match the pics I took of the real thing in Nashville this past January (I can't believe I thought ahead to take that many pics!).
 
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Thanks Roger for the nice compliment!
Here's another picture.
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That's a cool early picture.  You have to take a second look to notice the open door the missing 01.
Here's an update.  I painted the black on the tail light panel and sprayed the clear lacquer on the body.  In a week or so I'll polish the clear.
Today I made a couple of adjustments to the stance(ride height) and took some pictures with the wheels and tires on one side.  It's propped up on the other side. 
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It's been a while but here is an update.  I started painting the wheels. I made pedals and an automatic shifter for the interior.  I'll be using a heater under the dash board from a Revell 69 Charger.  The engine is a 440 with an automatic like used on the show cars.  This model comes with a Hemi engine that was never used on the show.  The head rest on the front seat is a set from a Revell 69 Charger.
I started painting the chassis.  I painted it mostly like it would be painted at the factory with gray primer in the middle and the body color overspray.  I painted the engine compartment and inner front wheel wells as if the car was painted with the front end off.
I painted the body with Testors Custom Lacquer System Hugger Orange and applied the decals.  The decals represent how the car looked in the early Georgia episodes.  I also painted the headliner inside the body.
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Thanks Roger!  The early Georgia episodes are my favorite and this is my favorite look for the General Lee.  I like the earlier darker tan interior more than the later light colored interior.  
Here is some more work I did on the interior.  I painted the interior seats and door panels in Tamiya acrylic XF-59 Desert Yellow which is actually a dark tan color that's a good match to the saddle tan interiors in the 69 Chargers.  The dash board, rear speaker deck and the kick panels in front of the doors panels are painted a darker color.  It's a mix of Testors acrylic leather and dark tan.  These areas were a darker color than the seats and door panels in 69 Chargers.  
The carpeting is made with Champagne colored embossing powder I got from Michael craft store.  I painted on some Testors acrylic clear and poured the powder on top.  It gives the look of carpeting.  
The center console is painted to look like wood grain although it isn't showing up to well in the pictures.  I painted the inset in the dash Testors acrylic silver and then painted Tamiya acrylic flat black on top.  The Tamiya acrylic paint is easily removed with Windex where as the Testors acrylic paint will not be removed with Windex.  I used a toothpick slightly moistened with Windex to remove the black paint around the gauges and to pick out the details of the radio and some buttons.  The red button on the left was painted after this was done.  It was sealed with Testors acrylic clear.
The trim around the center console, door handles and the straight molding towards the top of the door panels is done with Bare Metal Foil.  The window roller handles, round Charger emblem(in the top of the door panels), and trim around the shifter area are done with Testors acrylic silver paint.
I also added some Bare Metal Foil trim on the head rests but haven't taken any pictures yet.  
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I spoke with Jon Holland about the CB radio.  
 
He told me the Cobra 78x was seen one time.  All the other times a sharp 40 channel was seen.
 
Below is a picture of the Sharp 40 channel CB which looks a lot like the one in the screen grab Roth Potter posted above.
 

Here's some more progress on the General Lee.
 
I filled in the space behind the license plate below the rear bumper.  It's strange how this part of the body is split.  I put some sheet styrene behind as well to close it all off and strengthen this area of the body.  I also sanded the putty in the engine compartment.  
 
The hood that comes with this MPC kit is actually a 1970 Charger hood.  MPC did put out a Charger 500 kit that was based on the Dukes kit that had a correct 1969 hood.  I was able to get my hands on one for this build.  The picture with the two hoods shows the correct (yellow)1969 hood on the left and the (white) 1970 hood that came with this kit on the right. 
 
I'm using the exhaust system from the Revell Charger which is more accurate than what came with the MPC Charger. I had to make the area that goes over the rear axle shorter to fit the MPC chassis by cutting out a small section.  The last picture has the chassis with the exhaust system and rear end axle and springs in place.  These are parts from the Revell Charger kit.
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