John Schneider's General Lee crushed during Hurricane Ida

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No Shelbys were harmed in the posting of this story.

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/john-schneiders-general-lee-stunt-car-got-crushed-by-a-tree-in-hurricane-ida-168537.html

Well maybe it was a re-skinned Ford Crown Victoria underneath. But still...

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Another Southern monument taken down.....momentarily

Like the late great Southern Gentleman Charlie Daniels said " The South Gonna Do It Again"

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He found a replacement General to park out front.

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Amusing photo.  Damn I remember the Gremlin so well.  I vividly recall one on the street where I grew up and even then I found them to be appalling. 

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Oh heck, jus give er to ole Cooter. Jus one over night slam bang and the General Lee will be as good as new. Better make it two nights, Ben Jones is 80 but still breathin.

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My favourite character in the series was Cooter

Picture from L to R, Bo, Cooter and Luke

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Amusing photo.  Damn I remember the Gremlin so well.  I vividly recall one on the street where I grew up and even then I found them to be appalling.

.  I actually managed to get a speeding ticket in one of my roommates Gremmie back in the 80s...The shame.......

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A guy in my old neighborhood in SoCal (late '70s) swapped a 401 that he got out of a Matador cop car, into a Gremlin.  Same size block as the stock 304.

It was a one-legged tire burner!    Fun at the street races.   

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A guy in my old neighborhood in SoCal (mid-70s) swapped a 401 that he got out of a Matador cop car, into a Gremlin.  Same size block as the stock 304.

It was a one-legged tire burner!    Fun at the street races.

Matadors were cop cars???

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In Los Angeles from 1971 through '74 they sure were.   Check out a few Adam-12 episodes from that era.

BTW: The '71 401 was rated at 340 or 360 hp (I can't remember) and had lots of torque.  Great runners. 

The cop car my buddy bought from the LAPD auction was a strong old bull.  It was a root beer brown, ex-detective car, with dog dish hubcaps and wide blackwall tires. 

One slow drive through "our" Bob's Big Boy restaurant parking lot easily cleared out any out-of-town punks hanging out there.  My buddy put a whip antenna and an underhood P.A. speaker on the car,  to further our hijinks.

We had fun with it for a couple of weeks after he bought it (the auction cop cars were sold with NO license plates/tags!) until we got pulled over for not having any. 

We didn't even have a temporary paper tag for the window. Nothing.  Just a bill of sale and title.  (Neither of which my buddy had in the car with us.)

After about an hour of us sitting cuffed on the curb, the car being searched, and a thorough round of fact-checking, the cops (who were not LAPD) let us go.  Then they told us that the Hillside Strangler was thought to be driving an old cop car...without license plates. 

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In Los Angeles from 1971 through '74 they sure were.   Check out a few Adam-12 episodes from that era.

BTW: The '71 401 was rated at 340 or 360 hp (I can't remember) and had lots of torque.  Great runners. 

The cop car my buddy bought from the LAPD auction was a strong old bull.  It was a root beer brown, ex-detective car, with dog dish hubcaps and wide blackwall tires. 

One slow drive through "our" Bob's Big Boy restaurant parking lot easily cleared out any out-of-town punks hanging out there.  My buddy put a whip antenna and an underhood P.A. speaker on the car,  to further our hijinks.

We had fun with it for a couple of weeks after he bought it (the auction cop cars were sold with NO license plates/tags!) until we got pulled over for not having any. 

We didn't even have a temporary paper tag for the window. Nothing.  Just a bill of sale and title.  (Neither of which my buddy had in the car with us.)

After about an hour of us sitting cuffed on the curb, the car being searched, and a thorough round of fact-checking, the cops (who were not LAPD) let us go.  Then they told us that the Hillside Strangler was thought to be driving an old cop car...without license plates.

Yikes !