{"id":4575,"date":"2009-08-17T11:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4575"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T10:31:26","slug":"dukes-of-hazzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/dukes-of-hazzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dukes of Hazzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4577\" title=\"boluke\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boluke.jpg\" alt=\"boluke\" width=\"504\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boluke.jpg 504w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boluke-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn-influx-wp.adrianflux.co.uk\/uploads\/2009\/07\/boluke-278x211.jpg 278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>According to who you ask, the were anywhere between 250 and 350 1968-9 Dodge Chargers used in the filming of The Dukes of Hazzard. General Lee, as the redneck ride of bootlegging brother Bo &amp; Luke Duke&#8217;s muscle car was known, had half of the teenage population of suburban Britain leaping in and out of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markthreeownersclub.com\/\">MK 111 Cortina<\/a> windows, and the other half painting the Confederate Flag on their roof.<\/p>\n<p>The TV show&#8217;s popularity between 1979 and 1985 had as much to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_MTOz5F32nA\">Daisy Duke<\/a>&#8216;s high-hitched hotpants as the spectacular car-wrecking that was a leitmotif of the sunday afternoon show.<\/p>\n<p>Since the halcyon days of the seventies and eighties, there doesn&#8217;t seem to have been a TV show were the car is truly the star. 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