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The
General Lee is the greatest automobile on the face of the Earth. Bo and Luke
came across it while looking for a car to put the engine they had just built
into. They found a beat-up black charger in a Chickasaw junk yard after it had
been used in a bank robbery and run off the road and used the money Uncle Jesse
lent them to buy it.They took it over to Cooter's Garage and turned it into the
car we all know and love.The General had to be severely overhauled to withstand
all the abuse the Dukes put to it. The car was stripped down, replaced with a
roll-bar added, a grill guard was added to the front, the antenna was removed so
the Dukes could slide across the hood easily, and the doors were welded shut
'cause Luke wanted it to be just like a car in the Nascar Circuit. The horn was
replaced with one that played the first 11 notes of Dixie even though the tune
was edited in after the first few episodes. The only color Cooter had in his
garage at the time was orange so that's the color it came to be. They also
slapped a big ol' Confederate Flag on the roof with the name GENERAL LEE on both
sides of it. And don't forget the big 'ol "01" on each door. By the
way its license plate was Georgia CNH 320...
Luke
was the cooler, more rational Duke cousin. Luke didn't get to drive the General
all that much, but when he did, he often preluded it with his famous hood slide.
Luke was an ex-Merchant Marine and always got the Dukes out of all the trouble
Bo got them into. Luke was the one who did all the crazy stunts, like jumping
onto moving vehicles. It helped to have Marine training in Hazzard. As Luke
would slide across the hood, Bo would be starting up the engine and throwing it
into gear for a faster getaway. He and Bo used to be in the family business of
runnin' shine, a tradition that was started 50 years be fore there was a U.S.of
A., until they messed that up by getting caught. Now all they do is drive
around all day in the General.
Quite
a bit younger than Luke. Bo was an ex-stock car test driver and did all the fancy jumps in the General. No
one in Hazzard could out-run the General when Bo was driving. If there was
something in Hazzard that looked like it could be jumped, Bo would jump it
without hardly a second thought. He even jumped a 32 car pile up for a stunt
show. (Did any of you notice that the General used to do that stunt had black
bucket seats, instead of the usual tan bench, and had extra roll bars added to
it, not to mention the racing seat-belts.) Carnival of the trills was the show that he did the 32 car jump Bo didn't come up with as many ideas
as Luke did, but he always did his part when it came to getting the boys out of
trouble. Bo was always on the lookout for pretty girls which got them into
trouble a few times too.
Daisy
was the hottest girl in town. Boss Hogg got her to waitress at The Boar's Nest
in exchange for lending the Dukes the money to buy a car (which turned out to be
a big mistake for him!) and enter it in his race. In the beginning she had a
1972 yellow Plymoth Roadrunner until her cousins drove it off a cliff. She then
got her famous jeep Dixie, which had a gold eagle painted on the hood. Daisy
hated it when the boys treated her like a helpless girl, she always wanted to
join in all the action, and often did help get the boys out of trouble.
The Duke patriarch. He always looked out for his family and often let his
pride get in the way of his better judgement. Uncle Jesse never broke his word
unless it was to get his boys out of trouble (which happened a little too much).
Back in the days when he ran moonshine with Boss Hogg in The Ridge Runner
Association he got to drive his black Midnight Runner, but now he just drives a
rusted old Ford Pickup. Whenever he asked Boss for a favor he said something
along the lines of "J.D., in all my years I ain't never asked you for
anything, but now I need a favor from you." And it always worked. Uncle
Jesse had a way with words and always got what he wanted. He was wise too.
The
Dukes' worst nightmare. All Boss wanted to do was to eat, eat, and eat some
more, while becoming the richest man in the world. Boss would come up with every
way possible to make money and take all the mortgages his bank
holds...especially, the Duke Farm, but for some odd reason the Dukes always
helped him out when he was in trouble. Boss had a white 1970 Cadillac with
longhorn's on the front. Although he rarely drove it himself, everyone knew when
that car showed up, trouble wasn't far behind. Since Boss owned the law in
Hazzard, he never got into any trouble with all the schemes he pulled..
The
local law in Hazzard. He was a straight-as-an-arrow cop for 30 years, but he
didn't get his pension, so he turned crooked. Now, he does everything and
anything for Boss Hogg. Day in and day out he would find anyway possible to give
someone in Hazzard a ticket.
Rosco got her from a police gazette magazine, and he loved this dog more than anything else in the world, even money! Supposedly she could smell a crook a mile away. I guess that's why she hated Boss so much. She like the Duke boys though.
The
only lawful lawman in Hazzard. Although he always did what Boss or Rosco told him
to, he never liked it. He was hopelessly in love with
Daisy and everyone knew it. He even almost married her near the end but he
chickened out. Enos left during the third season to join the police out in
California and start his own show, but returned after it went down the drain.
Cooter was a mechanical genius. He could fix anything that was handed to
him. Cooter was the dukes best friend he would fix the general and loan them his truck.
Boss's big wife and Rosco's older sister. She had to have her way or ELSE..... Boss would be in big trouble!
He
was Boss Hogg's cousin and Enos's replacement when he left for California. He had a crush on Daisy but she never liked him. Cletus also was only 1/8 Hogg so he didn't mind helping the dukes boys escape from Rosco a time or two.
Another Duke cousin. He was Bo's pathetic replacement for the forth season
(the only low point in Duke history) when Bo and Luke went to race in the Nascar
circuit professionally. He had the same past as Bo; an ex stock car test driver,
but was so lame. He couldn't come up with a plan to save his life. Neither Coy or Vance could drive or anything (the reason that Bo and Luke left for a little while was because of not being paid enough)
Luke's replacement and another cousin. Not as bad as Coy was, but bad
enough. Like Coy, he was given the same background as Luke; an ex merchant
marine. He didn't do as many crazy stunts as Luke, but he came up with as many
plans. Coy and Vance weren't on probation so Boss hated that but the dukes never used guns just there bows..
The post misstress of Hazzard. She ran the post office and delivered all the
mail on her motorcycle while doing crazy stunts on it. She had the biggest crush
on Uncle Jesse and did everything to be next to him. She got herself into
trouble a few times, and loved it since Uncle Jesse hid her out while the Dukes
boys made things right./P>
Sheriff Little was Chickasaw only sheriff and he couldn't wait to catch the duke boys but he never did.
You heard his voice in every episode; singing the theme song, and narrating the story.He was always gave the Duke boys advice that they couldn't hear, and telling everyone to hold on for a commercial break.