Discussion for article #237818
Funny…considering AutoTrader has been running ads with the General Lee and both actors for awhile now.
But even funnier because that particular make of car is rather hard to come by…largely because of the enormous amount that they wrecked shooting the show. I remember way back when it was on, that they were desperate looking for cars to use in the jump and chase scenes…because they almost always totaled the vehicles.
What’s ironic for me is I just saw someone driving a car just like this in Duluth, MN. last night. I’ve never seen it before.
The “General Lee” in the AutoTrader adds doesn’t show the Confederate Battle Flag on its roof. It’s either obscured or gone completely. The car is shot entirely at low angles where its absence is not obvious:
I’ve never understood the appeal of that show to southern “heritage” folks. Yes, the Dukes are “good ol’ boys,” but otherwise the show is a running mockery of southern stereotypes, with characters named Lulu, Cooter and Cletus.
Has Ben Jones forgotten that the full name of the show’s main villain was Jefferson Davis Hogg?
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The car is Orange, not Red.
The FLAG is Red.
Jones, who is also the chairman of the Sons of Confederate Veterans heritage operations, said that now it not the time to be “making major historic decisions.”
So, lemme guess - in six months or so, after things have died down a bit, he’ll then announce that it’s time to be “making major historic decisions,” right?
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Can someone please explain to me the parts of the “Heritage” that are being celebrated that are not about slavery or the fruits of slave labor? As a New Yorker, I really don’t get it.
Thanks!
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Awwwww. Cooter will be in a snit.
“No one thinks it was not a terrible, horrible thing.”
$100 says there were at least a couple hundred thousand knuckle-draggers chugging beer in their man caves wishing a few dozen Dylann Roofs roamed the land dishing out murder and mayhem.
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I have no brief at all with these nutbars who run around chanting that “The South will rise again!”
But this instance is as bad as all the film producers that went thru movies and cut out shots of the World Trade Center after the Towers fell.
I didn’t like the show, live action, or cartoon. But it is now what amounts to a historical relic of the time in which it was made.
All something like this does is to jack up the collectors prices on the older toys, and pad other people’s pockets in the bargain.
I’m glad to see the flag fade into history. It should be followed at once by the GUNS that killed those innocent people. All this flag hoo-ha is all right, as far as it goes, but it is also misdirection on a grand scale.
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Not far from where I live in outer borough NYC there is a Chrysler/Dodge dealer with a late model Dodge Challenger done up in retro Dukes trim including the lost cause flag on the roof. It has been in the front of the lot for the past several weeks. I wonder if the dealer has second thoughts about keeping it in a prominent place or shipping it to a dealer south of the Mason Dixon line.
I went to high school with John Schneider in ATL in the mid-70s.
IIRC his mother was a divorcee who moved them there from NYC.
John was a great guy; a talented performer.
I managed the stage lighting and effects for the theater group
for 3 years and had the pleasure of getting to know John.
He played a brilliant Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof my senior year.
Bo Duke was his first/breakout professional role.
jw1
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I won’t rest until those Duke boys are driving the General Sherman!
Actually, in one of the ads at least, it does show the flag. In fact, the fly through the window of the store and drive away in a new little orange sports car…with the flag on the roof.