The NEVER BEFORE REVEALED secret of the General Lee
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You guys said Travis was so interesting that you could listen to him talk about paint drying. Well, here you go.
Just two good ol boys, never meaning no harm...
hahaha
Next we need Christopher and Rabbit to talk about paint drying. 😂🤣😂
Would argue that paint was quite dry already.
What was that shade called again?
I think we were speaking General-Lee 😉
My dad worked for TNT for 25 years, he also loves dukes of hazard so he’s going to flip when I tell him he’s been driving round in general Lee orange for 25 years!
Be sure to have your camera at hand!
Make sure you put his reaction on you tube!
I'll bet he kinda already knew, hell I'm REALLY colourblind I and I just KNEW it was the same, as a kid had a toy TNT truck and obviously a toy General Lee!
I used to park them side by side because they matched EXACTLY!!!!
As a child, I could not tell they were Orange, could have been green,red or brown, I couldn't tell you which though, but I could identify that they were not just the same colour, but matched EXACTLY!!!!
For everyone's safety i wouldn't tell him man.I could imagine him thinking of jumping his truck 🤣
Oh wow. Great vid
I do enjoy the obsession over car colors. This is next level. I guarantee you there is someone sending an inquiry right now to Porsche for a PTS allocation to have the only German car every painted in this color.
Agreed...sounds like a very Porsche owner thing to do 😂
If one does it then there will be many more shortly. Not a bad thing. Great color!
Yep...just did it.
Just Kiddn'.
Since TNT is here in Germany too, it surely won't be the first "german car" in that color :D
Would be funny to see a 911 driving around in the General Lee Theme though. Including roof-flag (it's not controversal over here)
He's wrong though. There in an interview on the Kibbe and Friends podcast where they spoke with the people who actually built lee1. It was painted Flame Red. Travis stole a deck lid (it was never promised to him, he made a clone and gave the fake back) and used a scanner that doesn't tell you what it's actually been painted with. Just the most similar colour in its database. Dude is a fraud.
I grew up Black... And I'm still Black to this day...
I never had a problem with the General Lee (the car).
Never heard anyone in my family have a problem with it.
I would drive one 🤤🤷🏾♂️
That is very enlightened. You should own one.
@I'm Me Its a beautiful car... and I'm not the biggest Mopar fan (the cars at least).
Who’s ready to see a TNT Express Scania truck jump a river
Ivan Vrkljan lol
TNT Express Orange is #f66600 for all you illustrators out there. Heads up.
thank you satan. very cool.
Thank you.
Doing the dark lord’s work
I'm not exactly sure how all this works, but from his description they picked that color based on how it would appear on camera and so it wouldn't reflect an image of the camera.
So depending on what/where/how you're illustrating something that color might or might not work, depending on the lighting...somehow?
Bo and Luke did deliver Dynamite quickly by Bow and Arrow, so the name fits right in.
Colorblind People: "PRINCE OF LIES!! IT'S HUGGER GRAY, DAGGUMMIT!!" {0.o}
🤙🥳😆😂🤣🥳🤙
For what it's worth, I worked at a store that mixed automotive paint. I mixed up a custom shade of red and subsequently managed to lose the formula somehow. About a year later someone did some minor damage to the truck in a parking lot. Shortly after that our Dupont rep stopped by. He asked about my truck and I told him what had happened and that my plan was mix something close then add a few drops of different colors until I got a match. The trouble is red is notorious for changing shade after a week of curing. That meant putting some on the damaged area and waiting for it to cure to see which way I needed to go for the next attempt. The Dupont rep said I didn't have to waste all that time because he had a scanner with him that would give us the exact match formula, even accounting for any fading that had occurred. He scanned it and it printed out a formula. It also identified that color as an old American LaFrance color. I mixed up a pint later that day and thought there's no possible way this is going to match. The guy who originally painted the truck also said there was no way. I called the rep and told him it looked like it had way too much blue in it. He said shoot it and if it doesn't match in two weeks or less he would pay to have the whole truck repainted. I vaguely remembered thinking the paint I mixed originally did get brighter once it cured so we tried it. Initially it was a dramatic difference. After three days it was barely noticeable and within a week it was a perfect match. That scanner is an amazing tool for matching custom mixed paint or older paint for a repair where the original color has faded and no longer matches the original formula. Even with the original trunk it would have taken a good paint person quite a while to come up with an exact match and you still would only have the formula, not an actual paint code to go by.
When I go to repaint my car (not a muscle car) that's likely how I will have it done since I doubt the formula for a 60 year old car is still available
*listen cool story bro*
Gotta love that John Schneider still works together with fans to keep the fandom alive and kicking.
Still love the car, if I could afford to build one the controversy over the flag wouldn't stop me.
There's no controversy for me cuz I don't give a F what America hating democrats think. If anything the schadenfreude of seeing their displeasure would make me enjoy my car even more.
The flag on the General Lee is not offensive. Its part of the car & its history. Its the woke left cancel culture that make it offensive. I'm with you if I had the cash I would buy or build one in a hart beat.
@@matk4731
Agree. Interesting how nobody is canceling Porsche and Mercedes for their involvement in WW2. The Left is once again cherry-picking things to cry about to make the White man look bad.
Last time I was this early, Ed's Vanquish was still filled with contraband.
Last time I was this early, Kimmie had just gotten her butt implants
Last time I was this early, I met right in the middle
last time i was this early nick still had an ant in his face
Last time i was this late Rabbit had realised the car he had just driven was stolen
If I where to build a general lee it would HAVE to have the flag on top.
Hell ya it would, it wouldn't be the same without it
It’s not the General Lee without it.
Orange is cool but I mean... *this could be red*
I got that reference 😂😂😂😂
Don't start again..
Hahahahha that comment is soooo gold
Hahahahahahahaha
Expertly played😂😂
My great great grandfather Ken Thomas started the Thomas nation wide transport company in Australia in 1946 my grandmother and her sister are the last alive of the Thomas family. The business was sold out of the family long ago but it made me very proud to watch this video. Thanks Travis Thanks Vinwiki
Any more details you have to share? That'd be awesome
@@LCaddyStudios I never got to know too much only found out during my school family tree assignment, have a few photos I would be happy to share of old trucks etc
I remember those TNT trucks barreling along dirt roads in Western Australia in the early 1970’s.
"TNT express" is such a sick name for a color!
It Loses its charm after 30 years of sitting behind their trucks in traffic jams!!!!!!!!!!!!!
, from henceforth I will now refer to TNT Express as "Them Duke boys" Orange, in an effort to make traffic jams seem more exciting!
Saying my car color is "TNT express" is similar to saying my car color is "DHL" or "UPS".
In Europe it's just another shipping company.
@@Jegorex across the pond here in America most people only know TNT as either a bad reality TV network or as explosives formerly used in mining (and according to old people: at one point you could buy it at hardware stores and it was used to remove stumps)
@@Jegorex Same here, I believe it was started in the 40's here in Australia. Used to play the game spot the tnt truck, definitely going and filming a video about this lol
Bo and Luke did deliver Dynamite quickly by Bow and Arrow, so the name fits right in.
Colorblind People: "IT'S HUGGER GRAY, DAGGUMMIT!!" {0.o}
🤙🥳😆😂🤣🥳🤙
You called your G.L.” promotional cancer”. Man, what in the Hell is the werl’ comin’ to? Long live General Lee.
The pride of the South.
All the sleepless nights I have spent worrying about this...whew.
When I did my lee (my grandpa owned a body shop) I chose mine to do it in 1978 “Chrysler flame orange” which is very close to the Corvette orange. But here’s 3 generations of combined mechanic shop wisdom... when a guy would come in and say “hey, I want this car painted orange” and a guy would go back and grab a chip book. Odds would be A) he would grab the book with the same make as your car. and B) He would grab the newest book they had because they had the most accurate to fresh spray colors in them (paint chip books fade no matter what) and they were the cleanest (any body guy knows that bondo dust gets everywhere)
The Duke family was in no way raciest. Not all family’s in that time were either. If the media would just stop fueling people up...then all would just be good for everyone.
Just cause they’re not “racist” doesn’t mean they won’t step aside and watch racial injustice carry itself on. Just cause people understand that more and more doesn’t mean it’s the mass media or the Russian bots
I guess that the American flag has promotional cancer too as far as Anitfa and BLM are concerned.....
The problem I see with the SJW cancel culture movent is that we are now allowing Marxist terrorists redefine which historic symbols go and which ones stay.
It seems that anybody can start a protest in order to blot out an entire race or culture in the name of equality.....
But, almost nobody notices when these anybody's come to Burn Loot and murder all dressed up in their own symbolism...much of which represents hatred of Americans!
And while many marginalized people like southerners, have adopted symbols like the old Confederate battle flag, there are many others who pretend that they're enlightened about the meanings of those symbols.
Regardless, there remains an ignorance as of late which is telling on those who don't know American history!
I've begun to have sympathy for the kids who've been taught to hate American culture from day 1, but I also realize that the rebel flag was such a part of American history that even Hollywood used it to portray the south on many occasions
Therefore; full grown adults have NO excuse for not reaching out enough to understand that not all those who fly that flag are racist.
@@huh3424 MAYBE's don't count. What one actually does or did counts.
@@crabbinmoose8583 I mean you said it right there "rebel flag" It was never the flag of the United States of America, and doesn't represent it. You want to show patriotism with a flag.... use the USA one. Want to show pride in your state... you have a state flag. The Confederate flag is literally anti USA.
(I don't mean you as specifically you, just in general)
@@fcscouto Have you ever seen or heard stories of an innocent husband whose wife had accused him of cheating on her..... even though she was doing just that?
If you have, you will begin to understand the souths adoption of the "rebel flag" as it pertains to a marriage of sorts conducted by the same powers who would later allow the holocaust to take place, making many more innocent Americans pay the ultimate cost for real freedom!
Don't put extra words in my post. Truth is, many southerners adopted the battle flag (Dixie Flag) as a way to remember the cost institutionalized stupidity and being labled as perpetual losers because their ancestors might have made political mistakes.
Even today many more Americans from the south, who's family's are separated from slavery are being accused of racism and bigotry. They chose to fly that flag because of an attachment to a beloved land (plantation country if you're from the north)
Just by choosing to have your family remain in the south after the civil war, many southerners were denigrated by those up north who's bankers supported slavery and so it goes until this day with credit and debt.
And thus, if the shoe fits...they lace it up by flying that old flag as a protest against hypocrisy. It doesn't mean they are haters, racists or even bigots like some who choose to use that flag for a club logo.
Like I said...there's no need to explain things to a brick wall of prejudice when there's so much to understand historically about the reason's narratives are formed in order to divide and conquer lovers, families, nations, and cultures.
TNT Express is a Dutch company. I see that color on a daily basis 🤣
Got a depo a couple of miles from me, so pretty much same here 😂
Ik heb er gewerkt.. nooit opgevallen dat t dezelfde kleur is als General Lee :P
Same here, worked there, never crossed my mind!
It would have a Dutch subsidiary, started in Australia.
Incorrect, it started in Australia and was bought by the dutch
Has anyone ever checked WHEN TNT Express registered the color? Would be interesting to know if it was before or after the Burbank Studios painted the original General Lee.
TNT Express sounds like a fancy type of Jazz Cabbage
If it already isn’t, I’m sure it will be.
Schnieder is 100% correct. It was a combination of a bunch of oranges. Even calling the color TNT Express is not correct. It may scan down to TNT Express. But it's not. If you know anything about scanning paints... you will get the closest representation of the color. Unless, of course, you scan an actual color. For example. If you scan Plumb Crazy Purple, it is very likely that the scanner is going to say that it is Plumb Crazy Purple. However. If the color had been modified in any way the scanner is going to give you a color and code of its closest representation of the color scanned. So, no. It's not really TNT Express. But that's about as close as you are going to get.
It was probably a lot like Operation Petticoat. (not enough white primer, not enough red primer, so mix it all and paint the boat)
"We don't have enough of this orange, but we have a bunch of this other orange but not enough of it either." "Well, mix them all together so that all the cars match."
I've seen Schneider's video where he talks about the original color of the General. He does say it was a mixture of all the orange paint in the shop.
Back in the late 70s, I was working in an auto parts store in Fairhope, AL. With the annual Christmas parade coming up, an auto repair shop down the street had procured a Dodge Charger which they converted to a General Lee for the parade. I remember ordering a set of "Dixie" horns for the car, and it was a huge hit during the parade (and for months afterward!)
Travis' got to be the most down to earth guy *on god's green earth*. He really ended the video on the right respectful note.
I've always wanted to know his opinion on it and I think he couldn't have done it better
IMO people need to get over the whole flag issue and stop being so sensitive and butt hurt about it. My son has a Confederate flag on his truck..... By the way he's black, just proud of being from the south
I disagree... the flag on the car wasn't offensive for decades, but because the current social climate changed, people need to hump on a bandwagon and get rid of the very thing that shaped their life and career... Imagine caving in like that... In my eyes, people who do that are no different than those in Germany who sold out their neighbors in hiding to save their own asses...
He caved and ran for the hills....enough said.
@@cbsundance Exactly... Imagine being so weak that you would be willing get rid of something you absolutely love and spent your life dreaming about... Just because other people decide that it hurts their feelings and needs to be canceled...
I remember an America where we'd flip those people the bird and tell them to get bent...
I've heard before that TnT Express was the color of the General Lee. I was told its one of the most common colors in Europe for fleets of trucks. Also I wanna add that the show producers must have known they were gonna run through multiple cars during the filming, so its hard to believe they just mixed up paint haphazardly to get that shade of orange. Ask any painter to come up with the percentage of different paints for a color to mix for you. You could mix that same combination up over and over, and there will always be subtle variations. It would be impossible to get the exact same color. Over the course of filming they would never had been able to consistently get the same color for hundreds of cars unless they used one specific color.
Good points. They probably never anticipated the show going past the original 5 GA eps so they likely painted the first few cars the same. I haven't thought about this for many years but I seem to recall they had 3 cars at first, probably built the same time and transported from CA to GA. It stands to reason those cars would have been the same color. They soon totalled 2 cars (Lee1 and Lee2(?) in the pilot) and made a 4th one. Wonder if the 4th one was the same color. Lee3 went back to CA and was promptly totalled in the jump over the bad guy car (The meeting). Once the show was in CA they had to find and make more cars and later on they fired the supplier/builder. So the liklihood of them sticking with the same formula for 7 years due to all those factors seems possible for some change. I may be a little off on the info shared but should be close. Like I said, I've been out of the loop for nearly 2 decades and don't think about this stuff anymore. But like you said, unless they actually picked a code it would be increase the chances of variances. Probably no way to know because all we have to go by is looking at old film which looks different than the naked eye. And the surviing cars may not have a protected area to scan to compare to the TNT Express to see if the end of the show matches the beginning of the show color
Chrysler flash red is closer.
Also considering they didn’t prime the cars, the final color will be different
Travis. You are my doppelganger or the other way around. Watching you is like looking in a mirror- frightening, but enlightening. Always great watching your videos.
Drinking game: Take a shot every time he says "TNT Express".
Just like effspot with his 12k exhaust lol
@@Toxic2T Just like Rabbit and the word corvette
Maybe promotional cancer, but a huge part of a lot of people’s childhood that had no realization of anything but entertainment
After hearing you talk about how much you love this car, how much it has meant to you over the years, and how much it still means to you, it was a bit disheartening to hear that you got rid of it because it might hurt someone's feelings. As a side note, growing up in Kentucky with family in Tennessee, that flag represented rebellion and freedom from authority, not racism. Probably why everyone always called it a Rebel flag and not a Confederate flag. From what I can see, the people that have managed to label this flag as racist seem to be the same people that are now putting the racist label on the American flag.
spot on
Exactly. Your attitude and respect for another man determines your worth not a tribute car to your favorite tv show. It’s sad what a few people can cuase
Very well said.
Imagine choosing to sell your dream car that shaped your entire life and career just because people started getting offended by it... It's absolutely ridiculous... Same with Bubba and his virtue signaling "I'm gonna paint the roof and get rid of the flag"... He said that to get all sorts of social media attention but never actually did it... like all those celebs that were "moving to another country" back in 2016... never happened...
hey man what authority were yall rebelling from? certainly not the united states federal government telling you to end segregation i hope, or you'd look like a real dumbass here. almost like you think your individual, rose-tinted feelings should get to dictate how everyone else thinks or something. but that'd be extra crazy, because then you guys would also be raging hypocrites
Promotional cancer...such an accurate label for what happened with this car icon. Thanks for another great story, Travis.
I would be curious if Travis sold his personal General Lee because he noticed a difference in reactions that he would get from people while driving his car once the confederate flag controversy became a more sensitive issue!
My guess on why he sold fear that someone try to damage his car. Sad time we live in
Kind of frustrating tho that the same people who feign offense at the stars & bars don’t react that same way to a hammer and sickle or a Che Guevara shirt.
I have really enjoyed learning about the General Lee. I never would have expected to care but it is really cool history.
"Angelfire", man, I hadn't heard that in at least ten years.
*takes slow drag off of cigarette
This guys way of speaking just eliminates anxiety!
I gotta say, I'm kinda jealous of Travis. Not only does he have the General Lee, he also has the Bluesmobile, and got to drive the Bluesmobile thru the mall.
Great video! My god this has been a great run of content!
Love the videos
Great stories to listen to while driving or have in the background on the computer
this is the smoothest TNT ad I've ever seen
The shipping company was in the states too. First it was TNT Express. Then it was TNT Holland. Then it was USF Holland. Then just USF. I don't know what happened to them in the last 5 years but that orange is stuck in my head because I saw it every day for 25 years.
Hes going back to saying " God's green Earth" every other sentence
Bit it is, gods green earth.
Ric Flair would be proud!
As soon as you said TNT the first thing I thought was trucks and it clicked straight away.
i remember reading how the paint was lead based , and the shop fixing them between filming would use cooking flame in a can to warm up the paint before it would go in what passed for a paint booth back then , but joked that even he did not know if it was the perfect color .
Dam WHERE DID you find that shirt. Man that brings back so many great memories. I need that shirt in my life
I remember skating in the shoes
No doubt! When that shirt was new Tony Hawk was a kid, Matt Hoffman was the first to pull off a back flip fakey and Martin Aparijo was king of freestyle riding (still is)
Check Ebay
They have been reissued for a while now! Also, You can buy the shoes.
Very interested! Love this channel!
Just a slight correction, that Ferrari was a later year F1 car and it was dark red. They started using that colour after F2006. Which actually had the colour he was talking about. Main Schumacher era cars had that colour, ie. F2004. I wouldn't call them orange, they were actually pink-ish in real life, but on camera, they looked red. That is why Ferrari used them, they wanted their cars to look red on camera but if they painted it just red, they looked orange-ish. If you google F2004-05-06 cars, you'll notice in some pictures they are really red, and in some they are actually pink-ish.
I think John Schneider said it on his CZcams channel before
He probably didn't say it as many times as this video though.
he did. czcams.com/video/tEPs5N992Vg/video.html
I don't believe John
John Snieder said they took several cans of paint and mixed them together at the set to paint it orange. The first General Lee was Blue.
@@TheGforcead yes Chevy Hugger orange, AMC Big Bad orange, Vette red flame and Smitty's mack truck orange
I think context matters a lot in the flag discussion. Having it on top of a General Lee replica just makes it an accurate replica. It shows support for a TV show people loved, it doesn't show support for the actual Confederacy. Just my 2 cents
The flag of the Confederate States of America was not that flag anyway... it's the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia
My brother had a 71 Pontiac Firebird when i was young; in what's called "Racing Red" even tho its technically Orange - almost identical color.
Thanks, I was waiting for this. I was going to use Crayola orange on the monastery but this will help get a closer match. The soffits and gutters are Alcoa evergreen and the trim will probably be Alcoa almond.
A lot of people argued it was orange and a lot of people argued it was red. But people at the time didn't realize that everyone could see colors differently. I'm glad this video was made.
In the Dukes of Hazzard fan base, There are people who want a General Lee in the absolute worst way, especially with charger values being as high as they are! I was surprised to learn that someone who is as big of a fan as Travis Bell would sell their General Lee! I would have thought that he would have kept his car forever...
pressured by woke culture it seems... imagine having your childhood dream car and then feeling compelled to sell it because culture deemed it "unacceptable" decades later. they took the show off the air and canceled it... cancel culture and woke-ism ruins everything... They even had confederate graves dug up and moved so they wouldn't be visible too the public... but hundreds of Germans from WW2 who fought for nazi Germany are still buried in our national Cemeteries... under a German flag
Love it! Keep it up.
I absolutely appreciate this video I'd love to have my own General Lee someday but I figure it'll have to be a Challenger with the paint and decals
Thanks So Much for the info
Love these videos 😜✌
YES IVE WAITED YEARS FOR THIS
Lol. The ads were right before the big reveal. The timing was impeccable.
Amazing in the show remember Cooter said it was a bright red orange. Always wondered the original color of The General Lee. Now I know thanks
Nice interview set
My dad has a 1991 dodge w250. He had redone a a few years back and he used the hugger orange and put a different engine gets 650 hp now. I didnt think he could pull it off thought it looked good before the redo withhugger orange is really good looking if done well.
was just watching yesterday's video!
Woot woot!!! Nice vision street wear shirt! Super cool to see someone still repping an old sk8 brand.
IDK why... but AWESOME!
Damn the color, thank you for letting it go. That was very big of you to say at the end.
Turner National Transport was here in the US for years, when they bought Reddaway Truck Line ( The company I retired from ) Our trucks were painted TNT orange and white. They retained that color all these years later, Dont know if its the same orange, but it sure looks like it! Todd Konoske the retired trucker.
Love you are rocking Vision Street Wear!!
This was my favorite show behind The A-Team as a kid.
Yes, directed here from Yahoo and Motorious. What would be really interesting is for the color mix to be compared to all those other orange colors people though were correct. Compare 3:23 to Hemi Orange, Hugger Orange, Corvette Flame Orange, and others. It would be interesting to see which is the closest.
Fascinating info.
That's so wierd... I was jus re-watching dukes of Hazard when this notification popped up 0_o
Damn Travis. That vision shirt took me back. Nice.
I remember in one episode when they were building the car in Cooter's garage, he actually said it was a mix up a bunch of different random colors that he had on the shelf...
As far as the controversy about the Confederate flag, people just need to get over it.
Love it!
Hahaha....good ol World of Wheels. . Thanks so much fir the flash back brotha, wish I held on to those polaroids, not that they would’ve lasted this long. 5$ and I could only sit on the door sill lol
Cars on rotating pedestals, with mirrors on the floors, and velvet ropes strung between shiny brass bollards. What young gear head wouldn’t drool.
That shirt!!! Love it!!
i just sat in cooters general this weekend!
love travis such a good bloke
I always thought they used some sort of random mixed paint from the studio. Thank god. Now i can rest in piece knowing the color of the general lee
I’m from England and knew right away the T&T orange lol
That Vision Street Wear tee!!!!!! No idea he was such an OG!!!!!
Great video! So it looks like they finally determined the color used for Lee1 and obviously the other GA cars but later on they changed car builders many dozens of cars later. So were all cars painted the same for the entire series? Reason I'm asking is about 20 years ago it was supposedly determined after much debate that the colors used were ~75 Flame red and later AMC Big Bad Orange.. Remember a supplier got fired for re-selling General Lees to the studio. Recently John Schneider said they just mixed up a random orange from what they had which goes along with what Travis said on this video and makes sense. But does anyone know if the entire 7 year run stuck with that formula/color? Has anyone scanned one of the surviving cars to compare, assuming there is a place somewhere on them that isn't faded out? Not that it really matters but Dukes fans are curious about this stuff.
Every Mopar guy I know has told me for years "they know for sure" all General Lees were pained Hemi Orange. :)
Good reporting
I bet someone will still argue that colour is wrong 😂
definitely
See John schneider a video
On the subject you'll see this color is wrong however it is probably the closest to be correct
John Schneider made a video on this a while ago
I'm in the UK, have seen plenty of TNT delivery vehicles out and about, just did a quick Google search on TNT delivery and this came up.
"TNT Express is an international courier delivery services company. It is a subsidiary of FedEx, with its headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands."
Dude, iv been wanting to build a Lee for a while. But I wanna do it in a rally car kind of way so it can take mild jumps and keep on truckin
Should get some paint samples together and compare how close they all were. I thought for sure it was the Corvette Flame Red!
The saddest part is he can't even say what flag he was talking about. He just says red white and blue. What has happened to this world???
Russia?
8:06 Carl Casper wow i sure do miss those shows
Such an iconic car and color
I thought it was a government county orange. I work for the county were I live and every vehicle is orange seems like there the same color. In the episode where they painted the car Cooter said all I have is the orange I've been painting the county trucks with. Very cool.
But my uncle's cousin's drinking buddy at the Frog Leg bar in Winona, Mississippi said that HIS uncle knew a guy who knew a guy who worked on the original show and said the car was Hemi Orange, by God.
Loved it
Well for those that remember how the Duke boys acquired the old general. Remember it's supposedly was black originally when they bought it. Then again you can add the chrome rubber ducky and lightning bolts across the hood and end up death proof.
Sporting Vision street wear! Nice
My work uses TNT orange as their corporate color, they once had a big deal with TNT. Never knew it was the also the general Lee color.
Awesome T Shirt!
I was there in Covington Georgia {lifelong resident} in 2003 for the jump at the 25th anniversary of the Dukes of Hazzard! I was also in the first episode 1978 standing in front of Harper's Five & Dime store as the General slides onto the square {CZcams video Dukes Of Hazzard : Chase From 1st Episode} & I was standing on the opposite of the square when Burt Reynolds landed his plane to get beer in Cannonball Run 1981, I was with the folks where the plane turned around {CZcams video Cannonball Plane}
Nice to know, that the true color of the General, is actually a fleet truck color. Thanks!
TNT Express - see their trucks & vans all the time here in the U.K.