General Lee Paint Job
10-20-2014, 11:59 AM
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General Lee Paint Job Hey Guys, I can't find any pics on the Internet so I'm wondering if anyone out there has ever painted a Trans Am in the General Lee scheme. Just wondering what it would look like.
10-20-2014, 01:07 PM
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Yeah I wouldn't go there. I'm not gonna say Charger only, because it looks good on a new Challenger, but I would never do that to an F-body.
Actually I would do it to an Ariel Atom, with the flag on the air scoop and General Lee on the "tea tray", but only because ingress/egress is the same as the General Lee.
Actually I would do it to an Ariel Atom, with the flag on the air scoop and General Lee on the "tea tray", but only because ingress/egress is the same as the General Lee.
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10-21-2014, 12:44 PM
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Hmmm. . .Well I guess I won't be painting my Trans Am in General Lee colors. However I must say that a custom paint scheme dose not belong to a make model of auto. Knight Rider was a Pontiac Trans Am but that did not stop Ford from cashing in with their Mustang.
10-21-2014, 12:48 PM
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I think he knows the difference. Those cars are quite simular and quite frankly the challenger is just a compact version of the charger so have at it. If I had a challenger I would do the same thing and I know the general was a '69 charger!
10-21-2014, 12:57 PM
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Horrific is a little extreme don't you think? The Trans Am is a muscle car/race car. The general lee paint scheme is just a race car paint job! Any race car can use it. Now it's not a true general if its not a dodge charger but that's not the point here!
10-21-2014, 01:49 PM
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see we have the Bandit paint scheme for those of us that want to "copy" a paint scheme from a movie/tv show or the option to try to add some lights and create a more modernized KITT, something not like the thing that appeared briefly in the Knight Rider 2000 movie.
In all honesty I don't think the General Lee Orange color would even look good on an F-body to start with, maybe and this is a BIG maybe if it was done to a hardtop SOM T/A so it's less a copy more an homage, using the SOM color.
10-21-2014, 03:15 PM
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But that's my opinion.........
10-22-2014, 06:21 PM
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Personally? No I don't. That is probably the MOST recognizable cars and paint schemes of all time. And it belongs to, and on a DODGE. Because anyone who knows even a little bit about cars associates the General Lee with a DODGE Charger. 2nd place would be the 77 Y82 Trans Am in Smokey & the Bandit. And that's not even a good example because the "Bandit" as recognizable as it is, Is a factory scheme not a custom scheme like the General Lee. But just for reasoning, Would you paint a Dodge Charger, new or old, black and put a gold Phoenix bird on the hood with Charger in gold German script?? I would hope not. That belongs to a Trans Am, and that's why the General Lee paint scheme belongs ONLY on a Dodge. Anything else most people would be like But that's my opinion.........
But that's my opinion.........
10-22-2014, 06:40 PM
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but KITT was just BLACK, no special paint scheme there, sure the reboot turned him into a mustang (that was actually pretty sweet looking, well until we switched to that ricer wet dream "attack mode") but that was because ford was paying a large chunk of the production costs to get all the product placement.
see we have the Bandit paint scheme for those of us that want to "copy" a paint scheme from a movie/tv show or the option to try to add some lights and create a more modernized KITT, something not like the thing that appeared briefly in the Knight Rider 2000 movie.
In all honesty I don't think the General Lee Orange color would even look good on an F-body to start with, maybe and this is a BIG maybe if it was done to a hardtop SOM T/A so it's less a copy more an homage, using the SOM color.
see we have the Bandit paint scheme for those of us that want to "copy" a paint scheme from a movie/tv show or the option to try to add some lights and create a more modernized KITT, something not like the thing that appeared briefly in the Knight Rider 2000 movie.
In all honesty I don't think the General Lee Orange color would even look good on an F-body to start with, maybe and this is a BIG maybe if it was done to a hardtop SOM T/A so it's less a copy more an homage, using the SOM color.
10-22-2014, 08:16 PM
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It's your car, no one is saying you CAN'T do it, where just giving our opinion that it would look like total crap and would be a waste of several thousand dollars.
frankly after season 4 of the original knight rider and KITT's "super pursuit mode"
and Knight Rider 2000, having him be an old Bel-Air
they can do pretty much what ever they want with KITT.
Also lets not forget the KITT 4000
frankly after season 4 of the original knight rider and KITT's "super pursuit mode"
and Knight Rider 2000, having him be an old Bel-Air
they can do pretty much what ever they want with KITT.
Also lets not forget the KITT 4000