I have mad respect for James Smith for several reasons... 1. He understand the value of the classic charger and won't ruin one for a one time jump 2. He made a perfect replica of an iconic car. 3. He did the stunt with a landing ramp so the car can be used multiple times. Respect!
Nothing wrong with Ford, as long as it wasn't made in the US... The best engine ever built is the Australian Ford Barra straight 6. The Ford Falcon model stopped production in the US in 1965, but it lived on in Australia and New Zealand until 2016. It either had a V8 which was okay, or the Barra inline 6. That Barra is without question, the best petrol engine ever made. Don't believe me? Google it.
@@KiwiPokerPlayer The Ford modular V8 engine is a great engine, the heart of many police cars and taxi cabs for decades, logging hundreds of thousands of miles. Was used in Mustangs, Lincolns and trucks, features overhead cams with either 2, 3 or 4 valves per cylinder. I have 2 vehicles with the 4.6 liter.
Perhaps not, but what of the SJWs who are wailing and gnashing their teeth over the Confederate Battle Flag? Who speaks for them. Who *cries* for them???
Didn't mean to make a political comment of this. I just watched the video because i was interested in how they fit the shell of a charger in a Crown Vic. I don't care your ideologies, I'm not even american.
As a Mopar enthusiast this makes me so happy to see! This is what film crews, and stunt performers NEED to do whenever a classic car is required for whatever scene or stunt is being done. It absolutely breaks my heart to see old pickups or muscle cars of any brand get destroyed just to for a movie scene...I can't even watch the "Fast and Furious" movies because it kills me to see old vintage cars get destroyed just to film a movie. I truly love what they did here with this car. It's helping to keep the genuine factory production parts/complete cars in circulation where they belong! I can't even imagine how many production 69 chargers have been destroyed by film and stunt crews over the years as the "General Lee". What they did here is absolutely awesome! I really hope this becomes a trend for these sorts of things in the future, and more real factory production cars can be left for restorations/driving. Excellent job!
Chad Fitterling one of the ones that hurts the most for me is from the tv show scrubs. They wreck a nice 70-72 skylark because of a spoof of some movie where a 71/72 blue skylark drives over a bridge. Don’t remember what it was called exactly
It's a FORD charger!! Someone had to say it!! Lol, and honestly it just doesn't sound right!! But nevertheless this is absolutely the right thing to do,to many cars have been destroyed just for the sake of entertainment!
Curtis Fleabag it’s Remanufactured AMD body panels, As he said multiple times throughout the video. The only “real” charger parts were either too far gone to use on another car or are super easy to purchase new. It’s a Ford frame, and cheap steel that looks like a charger.
It's basically a kit car! Cool beans! Much cheaper to build and own than rebuilding a Charger from junkyard parts! And it'll get way better gas mileage, as the only thing an original '69 Dodge Charger couldn't pass, was a gas station! LMAO!!
I am a 63 year old recently retired government fleet mechanic who has been driving Crown Vics as my personal cars for over 2 decades. I don't plan to ever drive anything else. There are enough cars and parts to keep a Crown Vic (and Mercury Grand Marquis) running for decades into the future. They are one of the safest cars ever built. They are built like a tank. And stock ones are super comfortable and get amazing gas mileage on the highway. I was involved in a fairly major accident in one several years ago, and it held together. I only had very minor injuries. If this had happened in a little front wheel drive car, it would have been completely crushed, and I probably would have been too. The Ford Panther platform cars are absolutely amazing.
Me to and I have a real one but I don't dare race it with other cars bumping into it / close so this = Perfect drift car or dirt track race car just needs a lsx or a 440 Rb / 2 gen hemi
Knackered Dad Hollywood doesn't care, a car is just money to them :-( This man is a true car enthusiast, he knows the value of a car that can't be replaced
Makes perfect sense, the CVPI is a full frame beast of a car, the toughest cop car ever, and has a similar width and wheelbase to a Charger. It's far more rugged than a B body. A reusable jump car, what a concept!
I beg to differ, I have a 68 Dodge Charger with 383 BB bored out 30 over. all bushings and parts replaced under the B-Body. I've tested it around ugly dirt roads hardly ever feel em having torsion bars, and new suspension parts with Energy suspensions. Old Dodges were and as sturdy as the crown vic. Steve McQueen's Mustang can vouch for that too during the chase scene.
As an owner of 7 , yes 7 Crown Vic's and a huge love for the Dukes of Hazzard , i love this video more than one 'like' click. i would love to own that car. word cannot express my happiness towards this build. if you're ever in New Hampshire , i NEEEEED to see this car. anyway thank you for uploading . PS: The Dukes of Hazzard has been a Family thing and the show means alot to me because my mom and i would watch this every week when i was a child. and the Crown Vic , well Ford is my life and these cars have been so loyal to me , in almost 20 years of having a Ford Crown Victoria (P71) i have never broke down. and yes , ALL my cars were retired police cars. Some call me a 'Whacker' but whatever , y'all don't know a good fleet car like i do.
@@hiesenburg669 I'm going to hack mine up tomorrow. Im sure it will take me longer than 3 days. Wish he had showed us a little more about the build.....he is about the dollar
I was there and until you got right up to it ..You could hardly tell that it wasn't a charger...while y'all had it sitting there I was jaw dropped as to how well and safe the car was built...Wild is the word I would use just wild!!! Loved it great job!!!!!!
I'm a service guy with a Ford dealer. Believe me, those Crown Vics were tanks. And they were often jumped. Sometimes they would come in with the radiator cor support smashed half way up in to the radiator. The story was always the same. The officer hit a bump and then the engine started to over heat a little while later. Among the over heat codes stored in the PCM there would be a code for vehicle top speed reached. Haha. We would just fix it, realign it, and return it to service.
As an owner of several vintage Mopars, including 2 '69 and 1 '68 Charger over the years let me say that you are a ROCK STAR!!!! Awesome way to keep the legend of the General Lee alive without destroying anymore of the ever dwindling supply of original cars. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
From a B-Body Charger Fan, And especially a Dukes Fan, Thank you for saving a Charger. There's not many left. And while the jumps are always great, seeing them get all twisted up brings a tear to my eye every time.
This blew my mind brother. I would have never in a million years thought you could actually buy the sheet metal for a charger anywhere.i always thought once they quit building that model they retired the prints and it was illegal to reproduce. This shop sure knows there shit. Good job to them and this impressed the shit out of me.
This is SWEET. I've wondered many times if something like this would be possible, given the rarity and value of REAL Chargers. It's a tough, easy to find car and you wouldn't have to be completely paranoid about damaging it. Maybe you could do some kind of an in dept guide on how you did this, like measurements on welding the panels on and things like that. I just restored a 77 Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am, so I'm no stranger to body work!
From 78 until 82 my parents worked for a stuntshow who jumped a car over a ramp while another car drove under it, and they did that twice a day and for 6 months a year, and they never ruined a single car because the landing was always perfect.
@@AutoEdits The man was willy Bossle, also known as stuntman Joe Williams who also did some stunts in 2 james bond movies, like driving the mustang on two wheels through a narrow alley. And it's not that hard, because every few years they used new cars, so to calculate they just started to jump at slow speeds while the ramps stand close together, and every next jump is done faster and while the ramps are being put further away from each other until they reached the desired distance between the ramps. I aksed if i could drive along as a passenger, but i was 15 so they refused alright, but i was the passenger in the car that drove between the ramps while the other jumped over our roof. Well, those 4 years were the best years of my childhood, because when you're a young kid, then what better time is there to spend than with a traveling stunt show? I learned to drive cars and trucks there, and got my own honda dax 70cc when i was 14 and i could drive in all the cars they used for the show, and in all the crash cars and i even learned to ride my honda sittting backwards and standing on the seat and ride like a surfer, so no hands on the handlebars. And i helped out in the show aswel and did sit in the back with johnny bossle when they drove with 3-4 cars on 2 wheels. And they had a contract with toyota and who gave them 10 new cars for the show and then in every city the toyota dealers brought a brandnew car of all models they had, and they were commmercialy presented to the public and gues who drove all the expensive ones like the super saloon and landcruisers and celica's? Well, i sure had the time of my life, and it was also a time when the best road movies were made like cannonball run ,smokey and the bandit, convoy, mad max, and tv series like the dukes of hazard, and the knightrider, and who are all related with cars and stunts, so stuntshows were popular in those days, and the bossle Hell drivers were one of the best here in europe and that's why they got a contract with toyota and even honda gave them new off road bikes and leather costumes, so very professional because the whole picture looked like a million dollars, and it was a priveledge that i was there and a part of it.
Now that is a very good idea. A vintage car is not harmed and there are thousands of crown vics out there. Great job. Hell I might build one. Here in Detroit we have plenty.
this is a pretty cool idea. people are doing the same thing to the 67/72 Ford f-100,s. they cut all of the crown vic. stuff off and drop on the f-100. now that he has done this just wait for all of the people to want to get rid of crown vic,s.
@@bananaman2184 don't get me lying bone but I almost bought a 1974(69) general Lee. Paperwork for a 74 inside looked 74 outside was a AMD 69 an yes doors opened bone
That's amazing! A shame they didn't do thos years ago, but the modern Crown Vics weren't around yet. You guys are pretty talented fabricators/men! Nice work!
Oh, dear lord the wheels are turning. There are so many possibilities for cool builds on the Panther platform. Cop cars are still reasonably cheap, not a ton of miles on most. I've got an '09 driver (ironically enough; from the Tigard Police department, a suburb of Portland) with only 85k on the clock. These things are freakin' tanks.
I’m so glad you made this video. I was always the guy screaming blasphemy when I’d see videos of these cars being jumped and wrecked. I should have known anyone that has the skills and passion to build a car like this would respect the original car enough to not pointlessly destroy it. So much respect.
Awesome job, sir! Thanks for the tip about using a box fan for a grill, I will be using that idea in the future, and I've used several AMD panels, and they fit nicely!
As a long time owner of similar vintage Mopar, I truly appreciate the approach you've done to both continue having the Duke's Charger in action for the public, and preserving the restorable shells for future use. Excellent! Thank you very much!!!
@@wheels-n-tires1846 the front end indicates a 1989-91 Daytona ES, ES Turbo or Shelby. The color with what appears to be silver ground effects, plus the hood type and 'Shelby' door graphic at 2:03 indicates this example is specifically a 1989 Daytona Shelby.
This is absolutely fantastic. Like you said, flying through the air, you would never know the difference. For a completely custom build, you guys did a great job. Looks really good.
Jeremiah Griffith not confused at all. The vin is part of the body. On another note, I put a new dash in my 1977 mercury marquis. I could have swapped the vin haha. It was stamped on the metal part of the dash which was only bolted down
Got my 1st car in 81 and was a 68, so you can say that Chargers are special to me and have owned two of them. The first one was just a 318 car, but #2 was an RT with built 440 plus added 6 pk and was a badass Mopar. John Schneider (Bo Duke), is a friend and said that they used only 318 cars to jump with and did not smash any of the extra special one's thank God 🙏🏼. So it's awesome that they are using Crown Vics these days, and is really interesting how they do it
I can't believe it!! Now that is BAD ASS!! Never knew that could even be done!! Put some damn roll up windows and a set of wipers on it, I'd buy it!!!!
Man, you are definitely living my dream. I’m a ford guy through and through but I always loved the show and obviously the General Lee when I was a kid growing up. Outstanding job. I just saw a General Lee in front of a store last week near where I live (Valpo, In. ) and I thought, my grandkids would love going for rides with their paw paw on weekends to get ice cream. I love the modern day safety / reliability aspect of it. If you have time, a tutorial would be appreciated nation wide. Again, outstanding job from one gearhead to another. God bless.
2 THUMBS UP for the CONFEDERATE FLAG 👍👍. Great job and Great video. And to HELL to the people who ruined our chances of never seeing this car on TV ever again!
Awesome. When I first heard on the Kibbe and Finnegan show that this was a Crown Vic and not actually a charger I was upset at being a Mopar fan. Now that I see this I actually understand why and then stoked. Man would I have it like to have one of these with a small block Chrysler stuffed under the hood. Good job man.
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how much would you charge to build a general lee like this?
Would you still build one if u have someone wanting one?
I have mad respect for James Smith for several reasons...
1. He understand the value of the classic charger and won't ruin one for a one time jump
2. He made a perfect replica of an iconic car.
3. He did the stunt with a landing ramp so the car can be used multiple times.
Respect!
Replicated a iconic car with another more plentiful iconic car
Dont forget he did that poor vic a favor by removing "portland" off of it
Couldn't agree more!!!
@kytryd73....maybe u can meet him one day an toss his salad.
My biggest is 6:46 "There's a little damage there but that's just history of the car."
The irony that the general lee is made from a police car.
A Ford one that
Nothing wrong with Ford, as long as it wasn't made in the US... The best engine ever built is the Australian Ford Barra straight 6. The Ford Falcon model stopped production in the US in 1965, but it lived on in Australia and New Zealand until 2016. It either had a V8 which was okay, or the Barra inline 6. That Barra is without question, the best petrol engine ever made. Don't believe me? Google it.
He's not saying there's something wrong with Ford, just that it's ironic that they used a Ford to make a car that is so famous as a Dodge.
@@mrfixitusa6165 Exactly they should have used a modern charger if they could
@@KiwiPokerPlayer The Ford modular V8 engine is a great engine, the heart of many police cars and taxi cabs for decades, logging hundreds of thousands of miles. Was used in Mustangs, Lincolns and trucks, features overhead cams with either 2, 3 or 4 valves per cylinder. I have 2 vehicles with the 4.6 liter.
My wife is gonna be mad when I start cutting up my Grand Marquis, lol...
Did she get mad
its easier to get forgiveness than permission!
Cornelius Crewe lol
I'm turning my Grand Marquis off road with a 3" lift and truck tires lol!
I am cutting my Marquis and putting a 51 Merc body on it. Keep your fingers crossed
Guy rebodies car in 3 days, put most body shops to shame.
Disclaimer: No Chargers were harmed in the making of this video.
Perhaps not, but what of the SJWs who are wailing and gnashing their teeth over the Confederate Battle Flag? Who speaks for them. Who *cries* for them???
Fabrizio Julian Caldara just liberals
Didn't mean to make a political comment of this. I just watched the video because i was interested in how they fit the shell of a charger in a Crown Vic. I don't care your ideologies, I'm not even american.
John-Del the flag was already erased from the "official " Charger.
John-Del no one because whoever thinks the confederate flag is racist is a dumbfuck who thinks we should erase history
This guy is a hero. Save the vintage cars.
It's not even a real charger lol
@@PlymouthOwner he means save the real ones from being destroyed
@@PlymouthOwner the general lee is a dodge challenge look it up
@@PlymouthOwner not trying to be rude i just get really annoyed when people misuse the names of the cars I like
@@PlymouthOwner That's the point. The guy's conscience finally guided him to make the correct decision.
As a Mopar enthusiast this makes me so happy to see! This is what film crews, and stunt performers NEED to do whenever a classic car is required for whatever scene or stunt is being done. It absolutely breaks my heart to see old pickups or muscle cars of any brand get destroyed just to for a movie scene...I can't even watch the "Fast and Furious" movies because it kills me to see old vintage cars get destroyed just to film a movie. I truly love what they did here with this car. It's helping to keep the genuine factory production parts/complete cars in circulation where they belong! I can't even imagine how many production 69 chargers have been destroyed by film and stunt crews over the years as the "General Lee". What they did here is absolutely awesome! I really hope this becomes a trend for these sorts of things in the future, and more real factory production cars can be left for restorations/driving. Excellent job!
Chad Fitterling one of the ones that hurts the most for me is from the tv show scrubs. They wreck a nice 70-72 skylark because of a spoof of some movie where a 71/72 blue skylark drives over a bridge. Don’t remember what it was called exactly
I watched a video once and they actually used some 70-71 chargers and replaced some parts so it looked like a 69
@Curtis Fleabag did you watch the video? LoL they made that charger shell from scratch. Its all pressed sheet metal....
Curtis Fleabag No, it’s still a crown Vic.
It's a FORD charger!! Someone had to say it!! Lol, and honestly it just doesn't sound right!! But nevertheless this is absolutely the right thing to do,to many cars have been destroyed just for the sake of entertainment!
As long as the jump cars are like this I wouldn't mind watching a jump some time. Thank you for not using a real Charger.
Curtis Fleabag it’s Remanufactured AMD body panels, As he said multiple times throughout the video. The only “real” charger parts were either too far gone to use on another car or are super easy to purchase new. It’s a Ford frame, and cheap steel that looks like a charger.
It's basically a kit car! Cool beans! Much cheaper to build and own than rebuilding a Charger from junkyard parts! And it'll get way better gas mileage, as the only thing an original '69 Dodge Charger couldn't pass, was a gas station! LMAO!!
Charger383Mopar YES!
@Indy Sanders If the wheelbase is the same im sure it would work. try it and donate it to me when youre done.
Charger383Mopar yep
Cool build. I like that rather than wreck the last few chargers that are left, use a car that is super common instead.
true I do want a real 69 Charger like this & drive it to Hazard, Nebraska!
now I want to buy a crown vic and make charger from it !!!
microbusss I wanna build a General Lee and drive it all over LA and San Fransisco to piss off the libs lol
martinez1701a you would probably get shot at. Rebel flag through the hood not a good idea
Bernie Lomax good thing I carry
Could you imagine showing up to the tag office in that? "Yeah i need to register my Ford Crown Vic." Lady: "ummmmm....what?"
Can you imagine getting pulled over by a cop and trying to tell him your Dodge Charger is actually a Ford Crown Vic ?
uncledadcan yeah that would take some explaining! I'd be carrying my project photo album just in case!
Or buying this car and taking it to a mechanic and him telling you "Dude this is not a Dodge Charger it's a Ford Crown Vic." 😠
Johnny cash gave him a idea in one pice at a time lol
P71 ?
I am a 63 year old recently retired government fleet mechanic who has been driving Crown Vics as my personal cars for over 2 decades. I don't plan to ever drive anything else. There are enough cars and parts to keep a Crown Vic (and Mercury Grand Marquis) running for decades into the future. They are one of the safest cars ever built. They are built like a tank. And stock ones are super comfortable and get amazing gas mileage on the highway. I was involved in a fairly major accident in one several years ago, and it held together. I only had very minor injuries. If this had happened in a little front wheel drive car, it would have been completely crushed, and I probably would have been too. The Ford Panther platform cars are absolutely amazing.
You should produce General Lees for customers from Crown Vics. That would be great!
Contact Smith Bros Restorations.
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Yeah 👍 I want one too 😊
general vic or crown lee
Crown Royal...
Vic Lee
The force is strong in this one.
cee dee general lee interceptor lol
I like general vic more
This is a great build! Hollywood take note...you don't need to wreck any real Chargers any more!!!
Quite tempted to build my own now.
Me to and I have a real one but I don't dare race it with other cars bumping into it / close so this = Perfect drift car or dirt track race car just needs a lsx or a 440 Rb / 2 gen hemi
Richard Price yes...please stick with a Dodge motor. Done be one of those guys.
Hollywood doesn't wreck original chargers 😂
Knackered Dad Hollywood doesn't care, a car is just money to them :-(
This man is a true car enthusiast, he knows the value of a car that can't be replaced
I like to play with muscle cars if this is accurate thats damn sad
Best looking ford I've ever seen lol
Glenn & Carolinda Powell I’m a GM guy and I still agree lmao
I'm a GM guy too; but disagree. I miss my 1969 Mustang :(
Oof
Don't you mean best forge you've ever seen?
Apparently you've never heard of a Ford GT40? Torino Talladega, a Mustang?? It's been a pretty popular car for like idk @ 60 years now..
I love how you’re thinking about the cars, keeping the classics alive and destroying less aspirated, popular cars
Makes perfect sense, the CVPI is a full frame beast of a car, the toughest cop car ever, and has a similar width and wheelbase to a Charger. It's far more rugged than a B body. A reusable jump car, what a concept!
I beg to differ, I have a 68 Dodge Charger with 383 BB bored out 30 over. all bushings and parts replaced under the B-Body. I've tested it around ugly dirt roads hardly ever feel em having torsion bars, and new suspension parts with Energy suspensions. Old Dodges were and as sturdy as the crown vic. Steve McQueen's Mustang can vouch for that too during the chase scene.
@westbender 820 its also about 500-1000lbs heavier.
@Curtis Fleabag loved to see old general lee's wrinkle when they did those jumps.
@@frigglebiscuit7484 I'm glad you told that Joe Biden loving gun banning clown off
@Johnny Deez Bah. A 69 has nothing on the updated technical marvels of a modern day CVPI
As an owner of 7 , yes 7 Crown Vic's and a huge love for the Dukes of Hazzard , i love this video more than one 'like' click. i would love to own that car. word cannot express my happiness towards this build. if you're ever in New Hampshire , i NEEEEED to see this car. anyway thank you for uploading .
PS: The Dukes of Hazzard has been a Family thing and the show means alot to me because my mom and i would watch this every week when i was a child. and the Crown Vic , well Ford is my life and these cars have been so loyal to me , in almost 20 years of having a Ford Crown Victoria (P71) i have never broke down. and yes , ALL my cars were retired police cars. Some call me a 'Whacker' but whatever , y'all don't know a good fleet car like i do.
what year of a crown vic would you be able to do this with?
The one in the video is a 99 but im sure they didn't change them up that much over the years
@@hiesenburg669 I'm going to hack mine up tomorrow. Im sure it will take me longer than 3 days. Wish he had showed us a little more about the build.....he is about the dollar
I have been wanting a General Lee my whole life
Honey I'm cutting up the Lincoln!
Uncle Jessie would've beeen so proud of you recycling most of your strapped parts
Pure genius! No more babying your 50+k vintage mopar with one of these
Tom Eis thinking about doing this. You're right. The coolest send-it-mobile
I was there and until you got right up to it ..You could hardly tell that it wasn't a charger...while y'all had it sitting there I was jaw dropped as to how well and safe the car was built...Wild is the word I would use just wild!!! Loved it great job!!!!!!
How was the sound?
uncle freddie it actually didn't sound bad ,besides that signature dodge start ..
I'm a service guy with a Ford dealer. Believe me, those Crown Vics were tanks. And they were often jumped. Sometimes they would come in with the radiator cor support smashed half way up in to the radiator. The story was always the same. The officer hit a bump and then the engine started to over heat a little while later. Among the over heat codes stored in the PCM there would be a code for vehicle top speed reached. Haha. We would just fix it, realign it, and return it to service.
Thank you guys!
All the chargers that died in the 80s😭
Sebastian O. Breaks my heart seeing them smashed for movies and Tv, I want to own a 69 charger in future more then anything
Ryan Streuli wouldn’t even be nothing if it wasn’t for the show
@@DJVICTOR-es7gs u right bone, the show saved the rest of them. In 79 dad said u couldn't give one away until the show
Please, please, *please* make a semi step-by-step tutorial on this car!
No kidding. Cause now all the sudden owning a general Lee doesn't seem to be too out of reach.
@@hiesenburg669 or doms charger
Got access to wrecked, low mileage crown vics, wish he would show us how to
Dang bro show us how to do it
This was awesome to see!!! As a kid in the 70s, I watched Dukes of Hazard religiously and this was so satisfying to watch! I loved it!!!
Hell yeah! I love NOT destroying classics! Thank you
Imagine how pissed his grandson would be when he grows up and gets given a general lee, only to find out its really just a crown vic 😂😂
It's still unique and valuable in its own right.
@@17531trice I'm glad you told that clown off
You destroyed a beautiful ford crown Vic to make this? Just kidding!!!
alex hess crown Vic’s imo are ugly lol
alex hess lmfao.....awesome!!!!!
I like them but a dime a dozen
That is just awesome!! Great job on that build! It looks just like a Charger!
As an owner of several vintage Mopars, including 2 '69 and 1 '68 Charger over the years let me say that you are a ROCK STAR!!!! Awesome way to keep the legend of the General Lee alive without destroying anymore of the ever dwindling supply of original cars. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Dude! That's bad ass. I'm a crown Vic lover so this is right up my alley.
“I used the police to escape the police”
I have only one word for how awesome this is: awesome.
Ah, so this is where the saying " F'ing Old Rebuild Dodge" came from!
In this case Flying Old Replica Dodge!
Damn, that would be a fun car to own. Great video, very well done!
Cletus: Where's the dipstick?
Luke: You're under the hood, Cletus.
It was bo that said that lol
So great to see someone who cares about preserving classics and not destroying them for fun because each time they’re destroyed that’s just one less
From a B-Body Charger Fan, And especially a Dukes Fan, Thank you for saving a Charger. There's not many left. And while the jumps are always great, seeing them get all twisted up brings a tear to my eye every time.
Cool video. Loved that show when I was a kid. Those were the good ol days.
Can you please in the future make a step by step video on how to make this?!?
This blew my mind brother. I would have never in a million years thought you could actually buy the sheet metal for a charger anywhere.i always thought once they quit building that model they retired the prints and it was illegal to reproduce. This shop sure knows there shit. Good job to them and this impressed the shit out of me.
The panther frame is one of the best frames on the planet
Too bad we didn't get those here in Argentina.
You sir are awesome! Nice job on the General Lee Crown Vic!!
You should receive a Mopar medal of honor my friend! Brilliant! Thank you!
As a huge fan of the 68 - 70 Chargers, I find this utterly fascinating. I really appreciate this gentleman saving the remaining Chargers .
This is SWEET. I've wondered many times if something like this would be possible, given the rarity and value of REAL Chargers. It's a tough, easy to find car and you wouldn't have to be completely paranoid about damaging it. Maybe you could do some kind of an in dept guide on how you did this, like measurements on welding the panels on and things like that. I just restored a 77 Smokey and the Bandit Trans Am, so I'm no stranger to body work!
i would want one as a daily driver
well it doesn't have windows so I'm not sure how great that would be.
Hope you have thousands of extra cash for the constant gas stops :-)
17 city / 24 highway oof better than my jeep atleast
James Noble it’s still just a crown Vic, not like it has an old school hemi. Hell it gets better mileage than my little 6 cylinder.
@@jamesnoble8205 My 2000 Town Car gets 20 MPG average if driven lightly. That's better than my other dailys, LOL!
Soo..can we can call this a Dodge Charger replica?
Yep
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@@DiegoGarcia-wi5mz that's a view bot
From 78 until 82 my parents worked for a stuntshow who jumped a car over a ramp while another car drove under it, and they did that twice a day and for 6 months
a year, and they never ruined a single car because the landing was always perfect.
Cool story!
@@AutoEdits The man was willy Bossle, also known as stuntman Joe Williams who also did some stunts in 2 james bond movies, like driving
the mustang on two wheels through a narrow alley. And it's not that hard, because every few years they used new cars, so to calculate
they just started to jump at slow speeds while the ramps stand close together, and every next jump is done faster and while the ramps
are being put further away from each other until they reached the desired distance between the ramps. I aksed if i could drive along
as a passenger, but i was 15 so they refused alright, but i was the passenger in the car that drove between the ramps while the other jumped
over our roof. Well, those 4 years were the best years of my childhood, because when you're a young kid, then what better time is there to spend
than with a traveling stunt show? I learned to drive cars and trucks there, and got my own honda dax 70cc when i was 14 and i could drive
in all the cars they used for the show, and in all the crash cars and i even learned to ride my honda sittting backwards
and standing on the seat and ride like a surfer, so no hands on the handlebars. And i helped out in the show aswel and did sit in the back with
johnny bossle when they drove with 3-4 cars on 2 wheels. And they had a contract with toyota and who gave them 10 new cars for the show
and then in every city the toyota dealers brought a brandnew car of all models they had, and they were commmercialy presented to the public
and gues who drove all the expensive ones like the super saloon and landcruisers and celica's? Well, i sure had the time of my life, and it was
also a time when the best road movies were made like cannonball run ,smokey and the bandit, convoy, mad max, and tv series like the dukes of hazard,
and the knightrider, and who are all related with cars and stunts, so stuntshows were popular in those days, and the bossle Hell drivers
were one of the best here in europe and that's why they got a contract with toyota and even honda gave them new off road bikes
and leather costumes, so very professional because the whole picture looked like a million dollars, and it was a priveledge that i was there and a part of it.
@@3DPeter Buzz Bundy did the Mustang stunt in that movie.
Now that is a very good idea. A vintage car is not harmed and there are thousands of crown vics out there. Great job. Hell I might build one. Here in Detroit we have plenty.
like to see a honda accord do that? long live the crown victoria...
this is a pretty cool idea. people are doing the same thing to the 67/72 Ford f-100,s. they cut all of the crown vic. stuff off and drop on the f-100. now that he has done this just wait for all of the people to want to get rid of crown vic,s.
lilorbie lilorbie haha like off of Hot Rod Garage?
Roscoe and Enos are still out there waiting on the Dukes to come by.
Good tv memories.
I own tons of p71's and I'm doing a general lee clone now. Awesome build. 👍
I asked a few people if they’ve done it and none replied, hows your project going if you started it at all?
@@bananaman2184 he is turning a 71 into a 69. There is a shop here that does them. Most of the cars are 318 tho
@@waynewilliams5802 71? Didn’t they have a completely different chassis?
@@bananaman2184 don't get me lying bone but I almost bought a 1974(69) general Lee. Paperwork for a 74 inside looked 74 outside was a AMD 69 an yes doors opened bone
@@waynewilliams5802 I gotta look into that, 68-70 chargers are hard to come by for me
That's amazing! A shame they didn't do thos years ago, but the modern Crown Vics weren't around yet. You guys are pretty talented fabricators/men! Nice work!
Thats an amazing amount of work, he's so humble!
Holy COW! That looks so painstakingly difficult but turned out GREAT! Youre an artist in your own kind. Beautiful work.
All credit to you for your ingenious build and not destroying an original.
Great General Lee! It was really interesting on seeing how the transformation happened!
Oh, dear lord the wheels are turning. There are so many possibilities for cool builds on the Panther platform. Cop cars are still reasonably cheap, not a ton of miles on most. I've got an '09 driver (ironically enough; from the Tigard Police department, a suburb of Portland) with only 85k on the clock. These things are freakin' tanks.
steven livingston mine has 200k and still going strong...
My 2004 is sitting at 210,000 miles and it cranks and runs like it has 20,000 miles. Absolutely amazing cars!
Wonder if a 70-71 Torino body would fit? Or a 69 Mercury Cyclone. That would be cool.
I’m so glad you made this video. I was always the guy screaming blasphemy when I’d see videos of these cars being jumped and wrecked. I should have known anyone that has the skills and passion to build a car like this would respect the original car enough to not pointlessly destroy it. So much respect.
You could sell these, dude, what cool work. I love it. Very impressive.
Awesome job, sir! Thanks for the tip about using a box fan for a grill, I will be using that idea in the future, and I've used several AMD panels, and they fit nicely!
A limited edition General lee interceptor, lol, nice built!!
As a long time owner of similar vintage Mopar, I truly appreciate the approach you've done to both continue having the Duke's Charger in action for the public, and preserving the restorable shells for future use. Excellent! Thank you very much!!!
This is brilliant! And the best part no original chargers were destroyed!
That is awesome! Glad you are not crashing the real deal!
0:08 I spy a Dodge Daytona...
@Cameron Dougherty the blue car IS a late 80/early 90s Dodge Daytona...
@@wheels-n-tires1846 the front end indicates a 1989-91 Daytona ES, ES Turbo or Shelby. The color with what appears to be silver ground effects, plus the hood type and 'Shelby' door graphic at 2:03 indicates this example is specifically a 1989 Daytona Shelby.
@@jacobirvine704 thx...loved those cars but wasnt sure what year exactly...👍👍
I still have an 89” Daytona Shelby!
@@300ddsrt3 I had a shelby turbo Z great cars but Oh the torque steer! oh yeah, had a 70 charger rt se too.
This is absolutely fantastic. Like you said, flying through the air, you would never know the difference. For a completely custom build, you guys did a great job. Looks really good.
I'm so happy to see, that no classics were harmed by this🥰
Hmmm. imagine a crown vic converted into a 1969 charger daytona replica.
I was just thinking the same thing! That would be awesome... an affordable wing car replica
@Edmond Schwab in film it vas rt but Thé cars used was not rt or 1968 looking like 69
@Edmond Schwab in fast 1,4,5,7
Wow, excellent job!
And that, boys and girls, is why America is still the Greatest!!! Love this stuff.
Very nice. Somewhere Roscoe is living it up knowing that a Police car and a General Lee had a kid... Hence the car you built :)
Has a body of a Charger
Has a heart of a Crown vic.
interesting I never new it could be done
i'm amazed the wheelbase was close enough
I wonder if you could put a hemi in it
FattyandPeaches you'd have to replace the Ford parts with Mopar or GM. Fords are very picky
FattyandPeaches unfortunately Fords are a total pain.
everything is impossible, until someone finally does it
This is one of the most amazing car builds ever. It's genius.
Isn't it ironic the General Lee is a retired cop car???? Love it!!!
I love the precise ramp to ramp, so smooth!!
Ben Wolfram Yea, that’s the difference between have an actual stunt crew, as opposed to a goof with a heavy foot.
Math........
*Imagine how confused a cop would be if they pulled you over and ran the vin*
Jeremiah Griffith not confused at all. The vin is part of the body. On another note, I put a new dash in my 1977 mercury marquis. I could have swapped the vin haha. It was stamped on the metal part of the dash which was only bolted down
Way better than destroying another Charger.
The 68 to 70 Charger is in my opinion the best looking Mopar ever.
I'm glad you didn't waste another one.
Great work restoring the Chargers. Hope you can restore many more so we can still appreciate and drive them
When my dad saw this Carin person, he threw up, was RC cola and cigarette butts, all over the dirt, was pretty fascinating to see
Great job. The craftmanship and love for cars is what we need, keep building!
I like it. Not screwing up a classic car, but showing how to make replicas for fun times.
Got my 1st car in 81 and was a 68, so you can say that Chargers are special to me and have owned two of them. The first one was just a 318 car, but #2 was an RT with built 440 plus added 6 pk and was a badass Mopar. John Schneider (Bo Duke), is a friend and said that they used only 318 cars to jump with and did not smash any of the extra special one's thank God 🙏🏼. So it's awesome that they are using Crown Vics these days, and is really interesting how they do it
I can't believe it!! Now that is BAD ASS!! Never knew that could even be done!! Put some damn roll up windows and a set of wipers on it, I'd buy it!!!!
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First time I've seen a Ford Crown Victorian police car turned into a Dodge Charger General Lee.
One word....MAGNIFICENT.
Man, you are definitely living my dream. I’m a ford guy through and through but I always loved the show and obviously the General Lee when I was a kid growing up. Outstanding job. I just saw a General Lee in front of a store last week near where I live (Valpo, In. ) and I thought, my grandkids would love going for rides with their paw paw on weekends to get ice cream. I love the modern day safety / reliability aspect of it. If you have time, a tutorial would be appreciated nation wide. Again, outstanding job from one gearhead to another. God bless.
2 THUMBS UP for the CONFEDERATE FLAG 👍👍. Great job and Great video. And to HELL to the people who ruined our chances of never seeing this car on TV ever again!
Awesome. When I first heard on the Kibbe and Finnegan show that this was a Crown Vic and not actually a charger I was upset at being a Mopar fan. Now that I see this I actually understand why and then stoked. Man would I have it like to have one of these with a small block Chrysler stuffed under the hood. Good job man.
I'd rather have a late model supercharged Hemi in it.
The way it jumped is smart for not intentionally trying to destroy the General, and it is great that it's not a genuine 1969 Charger.
I lost at the Box Fan. This is fucking awesome!!!! What a great idea. Talk about undercover clone!
Who says you can’t “fuse” a Ford with a Chrysler? This proves the naysayers wrong!
It's not right in the sense of Ford doesent belong there
Thank you for keeping the Rebel Flag on that car! #TheSouth
Awesomeness!!! Love the South!
That is cool thinking to use Crown Vics to make them into General Lee's
Hell yeah! This is awesome as it keeps the beauty of the design and keeps one more Charger alive to stick around.
I did want to hear the engine.