BangShifter Brad Werkheiser sent us the tip on this pile of greatness that’s currently for sale on eBay. What you are looking at is a 1968 Charger body that has been installed on a Dodge Durango chassis. The job was done by a guy who saw an episode of the Dukes of Hazzard where Bo and Luke (ok, let’s be honest, Cooter) transformed the General Lee into a four wheel drive to beat the bad guys. After seeing that show the man was so inspired that he wanted to build a version of his own at home and he actually did it and did a pretty darned good job. According to the ad, the builder started with a rotten Charger that had no floors in it and set to mating the body and frame together. As you will see on the photos below, he kept all the Durango stuff from the interior to the engine and the whole job seems to have been done in a really clean fashion. We can only imagine the glee on this guy’s face when he found out that the wheelbase of the Charger and the Durango were close to a perfect match. In the realm of the trar, we have certainly seen far worse things. Also, taking this thing sideways down fire roads would be beyond hilarious especially with the truck chassis beneath you.

As I am writing this, nine bids have been placed and the high bidder is at $10,500. The auction runs until Sunday so we’ll see where it ends up.

Here’s the text of the eBay ad in the event it sells early or something – 

Custom built 1968 Dodge Charger.  The previous owner, after watching an episode of the Dukes Boys in which the General Lee was turned into a 4×4 to chase some Jeeps decided he wanted a 4×4 General Lee of his own.  So he found a Charger body that was missing its floor….as well as a few other items and grafted it to a 2000 Dodge Durango 4×4 complete floor pan, frame, firewall, all running gear, seats and digital dash.  The donor vehicle has fuel injected engine, abs brakes, disc front brakes, air bags, cruise, tilt wheel, a/c, heat, 7in monitor with cd/dvd/backup camera capabilities,Bluetooth capabilities and 10″ subs with 750 watt amp.  The tires are Dune Grappler tires ordered straight from Nitto and a brand new extra tire in trunk. Engine is a 4.7 V/8 Auto transmission. 

It is autographed (and cleared over) on the trunk lid by Bo(John Schneider), Luke(Tom Wopat), Daisy(Catherine Bach), James Best(Sheriff Rosco), Sonny Shroyer(Enos Strate), Rick Hurst(Cletus) and Ben Jones(Cooter). The car also comes with a compound bow with fake sticks of dynamite is also signed by Tom Wopat and John Schneider.

Since I have owned the car I have gone through most of the suspension bushings, front shocks, replaced the a/c compressor, built a custom bumper that is powder coated and recently replaced the top vinyl decal.  I purchased a complete decal set for the car so it comes with spare decals for the doors, trunk and the General Lee for the roof.  The car also comes with various new door and window seals.  Currently there is 135000 miles on it and it runs flawlessly.  The paint is not perfect and there are a few small bubbles and body filler used as gauged from a magnet.  The only other real gripe I have is that the 4×4 shifter linkage was modified and likes to argue to go into 4 wheel drive. 

But being not perfect is not a bad thing!  It means you don’t have to be scared to drive it in any weather condition or type of road.  And driving this car brings a great big smile to your face….not to mention all those people you pass.  There isn’t a day that I drive the car where I don’t see a camera phone pointed in my direction….so you had better be a people person if you buy this car.  The exhaust has a very nice sound.  Car is titled as a 1968 Charger and the title is free and clear.  Car is located in Central Oregon.  Happy Bidding. 

And yes it has the horn!

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http://oncken.smugmug.com/General-Lee

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