Talk:General Lee (car)

message: if anybody has definite information about what landing attitude was preferred, please add it to the article. from watching the first 4 seasons (and listening to john schneider's comments), it appears that the flat landings were unquestionably the worst, but i don't have enough sources to add that to the article. SaltyPig 02:57, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  landings 

message: Love the Audio of the horn! Makes my three dogs tilt their head, and one being a hound dog/ American fox hound, starts barking....LOL-Woof !   Scott 18:59, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Don't ya'll love the Audio of the horn!

message: Where did this come from? It looks like it was directly ripped off of another webpage and very informal compared to a typical Wikipedia article. Klichka 01:45, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not exactly sure what you're getting at.  You say it looks informal compared to other pages, therefore it must be plagiarized?  That doesn't really make much sense. Wavy G 03:19, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

text: I see what you mean now.  That must be a recent addition, because I don't recall seeing it before.  Whether it is a copyvio or not, it was all original research and completely unsourced.  Not to mention the "I hate to break your heart but..." style writing is not exactly up to Wikipedia standards.  I went ahead and deleted the whole section.  Thanks for the heads up.  Wavy G 08:27, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone fix Myths section 

message: I count only ten. dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun! --⁪frothT C 07:59, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, twelve.  Although, thanks for spelling out the notes for us like that.  It didn't really help your argument, but it was quite amusing. Wavy G 06:02, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  12 notes? 

message: I'm guessing it's ridiculous B.S., but just thought I'd ask you folks to review a recent addition to Publius Valerius Publicola.  -Crimson30 05:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert Review 

message: Just made a little change, in the section about exit and entry, "Nevertheless, there was the odd production mistake in the TV shows, where the doors was actually shown being opened to let Uncle Jesse in." "where the doors was" changed to "where the doors were" to be grammatically correct. Cthon98 22:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  tiny grammar fix 

message: While named conveyances are typically italicized (i.e. USS Indianapolis), this rule does not apply to animals. As an equine example: Secretariat. Ribonucleic 16:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  de-italicizing Traveller 

message: This was added to the cultural references section:
  *Based on the Korean alphabet, Lee, the 2nd most popular surname 
  is characterized as "이", thus explaining the number "01".
I have a hard time believing that an LA based production company making a southern TV show would be using an obscure korean reference. Does anyone have anything that might show this to have a shred of reality?  Improbcat 16:03, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural reference?

message: An anon acount repeatedly removed the link to the lee1 webstie, and added links to a website (dukesofhazzardhistorian.com) and book by the same person. I restored the lee1 link and removed the promo paragraph twice, and it was only with repeated warnings on their user page that they stopped trying to insert it into the article. I even suggested the post the link on this talk page and get people's feedback. Instead they've inserted it as an external link under "Georgia Era Information" (at the top of the list of course). I've poked around the site, and it does have some interesting and unique information, but I'm not sure whether it should be a link here or just considered another "fan site". Thoughts? Improbcat 17:15, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: dukesofhazzardhistorian

message: The General Lee Fan Club link at the bottom is the link to an ad page with NO useful info  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.160.241 (talk) 09:09, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  remove the ad link 

message: I think the Charger is based on the Barracuda's design, but who's design the General Lee?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.95.20.159 (talk) 05:08, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Design 

message: I would think that if there is any doubt about how many Chargers were used in the show's run, Wayne Wooten of the Dodge Charger Registry having a list of the VIN numbers would settle it, no? Tim Riches, Brampton, Ontario (talk) 18:51, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of General Lees used 

message: I've removed the speculative and uncited portion on the AutoTrader commercial that indicates that the "General Lee" text and the flag were removed for the commercial. Besides that they were NOT removed from virtually any shot (camera and lighting tricks were used to not show them), there is no citation for such information. Since there's no citation for the camera/lighting tricks portion, I am not adding that either.
That aside, for anyone who's curious you can watch the BTS video and see the text and flag in various shots (for instance, at 37 seconds and 3:54, under the broken glass hiding the rest of it... 42 seconds, edge of the flag right of "Bo", etc). 
ROBERTMFROMLI | TK/CN 18:32, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  AutoTrader Commercial 

message: In the Exit and entry section it says "WB stopped welding the doors for time crams". What is a time cram? --Guy Macon (talk) 09:27, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It is an obvious error, and I just removed it. While it is true that early NASCAR race cars had welded doors and it is true that the show shows the doors being welded, there was no reason to actually weld the doors on the show cars, and you can clearly see that they doors still have the normal gaps. They just pretended that they were welded. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:06, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time crams? 

message: This section is devoted to the history of some of the individual cars used for filming various scenes, but mentions little or no actual history on the character car General Lee. Mention might be made of it's origins, evolved from "Traveller", the name of the main character's stock car in the original 1974 movie "Moonrunners" which all of it was based on. Traveller was a 1955 Chevrolet stock car, which would be of interest to some readers who want to know where the concept for the General Lee came from.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Wilke339 (talk • contribs) 21:30, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone please fix "History" 2.0 

message: This is where there is a missing quotation where it is describing how a roll bar is better without telling the readers why. "this is why only LEE 1 and 2 had full roll cages and all other General Lees only had a roll bar (this made it easier for the actors to get in and out).[citation needed]"
So I looked up the difference and found this quote at https://bangshift.com/general-news/tech-stories/roll-cage-roll-bar-vs-roll-cage-show-whats/
"If you are sitting with a group of tubes that are welded together in such a way as to create a “cage” around you, then it’s pretty safe to say that the car you are in has a roll cage. If the tubes don’t create a cage all the way around you, it’s a roll bar"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Runningstarter98 (talk • contribs) 22:47, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing citation 

message: Unfortunately, the car was destroyed by Ida. PattywhackAW93 (talk) 04:20, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Car was Destroyed