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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Vehicles|Black Tillie]]<br />
[[Image:BlackTillie0105.jpg|thumb|Tillie in ''High Octane'']]<br />
'''Black Tillie''' was [[Uncle Jesse Duke|Uncle Jesse]]'s moonshine running car. When it first appeared in [[High Octane]], the car was simply known as Tillie. The adjective "sweet" appears in the closed captions with a lowercase "S", so the car's name was never "Sweet Tillie". When they unveil the car, [[The Balladeer|the Balladeer]] describes it as "A real sweetheart with a leaded body, a hard engine, and racing shocks." He goes on to say, "Though he hadn't made a run with her in several years, old Jesse kept her tuned up and ready.<br />
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The car used in ''High Octane'' was a 1971 Ford Custom 500, the same model as the car driven by Burt Reynolds in the 1973 movie ''White Lightning''. The car was a dull black color, and had had all of its chrome either removed or painted over.<br />
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[[Image:BlackTillie0201.jpg|thumb|Black Tillie in ''Days of Shine and Roses'']]<br />
It's not clear what became of the Ford Custom 500, but when Jesse needed a car to race [[Boss Hogg]] in the [[:Category:Season 2|season 2]] opener [[Days of Shine and Roses]], he borrowed a tatty 1967 Ford Mustang from [[Cooter Davenport|Cooter]]. This time he named the car "Black Tillie II". Given that the episode started with old movies showing Jesse driving a 1940s car which he referred to as "Black Tillie", the Mustang should have been at least "Black Tillie III".<br />
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The only other time that Black Tillie gets a mention is near the start of [[Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough]].</div>HossC