Over seven season , the General Lee pop off airborne more than 150 prison term . Although it seemed o.k. on screen , the General rarely survived a parachuting . Warner Brothers sum an average of two Chargers per instalment . By the time filming ended , an calculate 300 Chargers had star as the General Lee . What happened to all those car ?
WB salvaged the most beat - up vehicles . shop mechanic saved the doors , the greyback - flagged roof , and railway locomotive parts , which were cannibalize by future superior general . The car ’s wrecked corpse were then sent to a junkyard crusher , where it was crumpled beyond acknowledgement . An estimated 75 to 220 Chargers went to the car yard in the sky this way .
battery charger that were n’t as badly damage often became airplane propeller , called “ bucks . ” automobile mechanic rebuilt and repainted the battle - scarred automobile , which re-emerge as town or chase cars . By the end of each time of year , these Chargers also draw back to a railroad car memorial park .
WhenDukes’Nielsen ratings sunk in 1986 , CBS pulled the show . Warner Brothers desert 18 General Lees at the set , and the cars gathered detritus for five age . In 1991 , WB sold 17 of those cars to individual owner .
BONUS! General Lee Fun Facts
· In 2001 , two collectors get a General Lee in a Georgia junkyard . The car ended up being the original , from the first sequence . The car was repair and sell for $ 110,000 .
· The Dukes ' railroad car was in the first place going to be named “ Traveller , ” after General Lee ’s horse , but the producers concern that no one would get the reference .
· you could still buy the “ Dixie ” horn from JC Whitney .
· The General Lee was a 1969 Charger , but some of the cars filmed were doctored 1968 example .
· The General ’s trunk was filled with backbone or concrete to keep it from tipping on its nose when airborne . Each leap was man .
· The cable car get an average of 35,000 letters of fan post per month .
DOUBLE BONUS! Want to see all those Chargers in flight?
Here ’s almost every jarring parachuting , from season one through six .
