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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 6:44:07 AM | I don't know, someth'n about having to jump in and out through a window just doesn't appeal to me...Now give me "The Fall Guy's" Truck and it's on.....lol !!! | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 7:09:46 AM | I've had a few high end muscle cars over the years...
I can safely say they do attract the ladies... I've even had them pull up beside me as I'm driving and ask me to pull over and give them a ride...
I miss my old cars....
In truth, I was looking at buying a car to fix up this summer. Just haven't found a suitable body/drivetrain to start with. Maybe next summer. | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 7:19:40 AM | it always breaks the ice if you have a cool car it just depends on who your picking up some love my old charger some would rather be picked up in a jag
tells me something about the girl if she likes the car we will have a good time banging gears if she is the kind that wants the jag well not so good | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 7:44:01 AM | Depends on how good of a replica it is: if the doors open at all, I might be somewhat disappointed. 
I used to absolutely adore that car when I was a boy, and frankly, I still do... It always struck me as strange in my later years to see southern folks' reaction to the Rebel flag, usually negative and visceral; much the way some people react to a Nazi flag. I guess that growing-up in Montreal, far, far from the south, we had no real grasp of its significance, and just saw it as a neat flag.
The General Lee would just look incomplete without it though; delicate sensibilities be damned! | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 7:57:24 AM | | I'd not be very thrilled if I had to climb in and out of the windown with shorts or a skirt on. Or in winter when it's icy out. :) | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 8:55:04 AM | Down here anyone with the General gets to sign autographs. It's a real classic. What I really don't get is how so many people can turn it into a political issue, as one poster on here did. The flag painted on top of the car is not a political statement. It's pretty much as close as you can get to the anarchy symbol in the conservative South. It's just a symbol of rebellion, youth and foolhardiness. True, the flag is a dated symbol with confused ownership, but in the Dukes of Hazzard there was no ill intent. The show's creators just wanted to bring back memorabilia from the prohibition era.
If anyone really wants to argue about the confederate flag ... really, it's just history. I doubt it belongs on war monuments in proud display (as it is in my state, rediculously so) or even in museums, unless the flag itself was an original from the Civil War. But the fact that the KKK used it in some rallies means nothing. Hate groups use the American flag too, you know? That doesn't make Old Glory a racist symbol in the eyes of most of us does it? Probably the American flag has seen more misuse than the rebel flag ever will ... it's been used to promote slavery, then later to deny groups of people the right to vote, to raid Amerindian lands and drive them on death marches, to bomb third world countries into oblivion under the pretext of defeating Communism, to promote fascist ideas like "we must defeat the _____s" (fill in the blank) ... and yet we still love and cherish it as a symbol of freedom. So what's the harm in using the Confederate flag as a symbol of teenage rebellion, without any racist intent? | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 11:39:38 AM |
I'd not be very thrilled if I had to climb in and out of the windown with shorts or a skirt on.
But the rest of use would be...  | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 11:49:22 AM | If you were getting taken out on the date with someone and they're picking you up/driving, what would be your reaction if your date showed up with The General Lee? I'd sit on the bolted-down door and slide me-self right on in.  Then I'd get on the CB and ask Shepherd if he knew where Bo Peep was! 
pick up trucks with a confederation flag and bumper stickers saying" the south will rise again" and you know whats bizarre about that is, they have Canadian License plates living in Toronto I didn't know south Ontario wanted to secede from the Confederation! LOL | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 11:49:24 AM |
If anyone really wants to argue about the confederate flag ... really, it's just history. I doubt it belongs on war monuments in proud display (as it is in my state, rediculously so) or even in museums, unless the flag itself was an original from the Civil War well thats great blaueaughen2, if you live below the mason dixon line, but up in Canada, you know the country north of the United States, 49 th parellel, pass port to get in, land of hockey, tim horton timbits, great beer and colourful money, there is no reason why someone should be driving in a Canadian City with a confederation flag.
That would be like me driving in Mississippi with a Quebec flag saying long live Quebec, and quebec doesnt need Canada, and I have Mississippi plates and a license | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 12:24:18 PM | If someone tried to pick me up with anything with a rebel flag on it, i'd laugh in his face so hard i'd likely have to excuse myself to the restroom, make some "redneck" comment and walk away quickly. That sort of thing does NOT impress me in the least.
Now if a guy was to gun the engine in a classic muscle car SANS any offensive advertisements, i'd be hard pressed to not jump right in, lol. | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 4:49:33 PM |
well thats great blaueaughen2, if you live below the mason dixon line, but up in Canada, you know the country north of the United States, 49 th parellel, pass port to get in, land of hockey, tim horton timbits, great beer and colourful money, there is no reason why someone should be driving in a Canadian City with a confederation flag.
That would be like me driving in Mississippi with a Quebec flag saying long live Quebec, and quebec doesnt need Canada, and I have Mississippi plates and a license
Oh, Canada!
Now that I read the original post I kinda get the strange reaction. It is kind of out of culture there. But mostly I meant to respond to someone's over the top PC post calling everyone who paints their car like the General Lee an "extremist" and linking them with known hate groups. | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 5:50:20 PM |
what would be your reaction if your date showed up with The General Lee?
If she's less hairy than Uncle Jesse I wouldn't mind too much.
I'd be more concerned about having to crawl through the window and getting shoe prints all over the place. Or trying to get in and ultimately shoving my ass in her face after ripping my pants.
Also those things tend to drink gas, I would wonder if I have to help pay for high octane leaded or whatever it uses for fuel (hope it's not the blood of yankee's).
I would also be concerned if she asked if I wanted to run some liquor and flee from the cops.
In other words it would probably annoy me more than anything. | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 7:32:18 PM | There is actually an annual General Lee convention somewhere- the point being that there are enough people with General Lees to hold a convention. LOL.
I was a big Dukes of Hazzard fan as a child. Even now I get weak hearing that opening guitar....
BUT, I didn't know what the confederate flag stood for in those days. It would be a big turnoff if a guy had that on his car in 2009. | |
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| The General Lee... on a Date...
Posted: 9/1/2009 8:02:27 PM | What gal wouldn't jump at a chance to ride in a classic MOPAR musclecar?
(i certainly wouldn't turn down a lift in Daisy's jeep)
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