General Lee

General Lee is the 1969 Dodge Charger driven by the Duke cousins Bo and Luke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and the subsequent films and the animated series, The Dukes. It is known for performing wild stunts, especially high jumps, in almost every episode, and for having the doors welded shut, leaving the Dukes to climb in and out through the windows. The car appears in all but one episode of the series (the third broadcast, "Mary Kaye's Baby"). The car's name is a reference to Confederate General Robert E. Lee, and indeed the vehicle embodies the Southern United States, as it bears a Confederate Battle Flag on its roof and a horn which plays the first twelve notes of the song "Dixie".
The idea for the General Lee was developed from the famous bootlegger Jerry Rushing's car, nicknamed Traveller, after General Robert E. Lee's horse. Traveller was also the name of the Hagg cousins' car in Moonrunners, the 1975 movie from which The Dukes of Hazzard was originally developed for television.
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