If you grow up watching Dules of Hazzard, you know all about the famous General Lee. Between January 1979 and February 1985, that Hemi Orange 1969 Dodge Charger received Duke Boys from Hazzard County from a call closer to Boss Hogg and Roscoe P Coaltrain. It jumped over more things and brought more liquor than a good ole car. It may not have a dialogue, but it appears in all except one episode and is a character from CBS television shows such as Luke, Bo, Daisy, or Uncle Jesse.
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Bo Duke was played by John Schneider, who since then left to have a successful Hollywood career with more than 170 credit, including playing Superman’s adoptive father on “Smallville.” He is also a Country music recording artist and owns and operates John Schneider Studios, a 58 hectare production facility located in Holden, Louisiana, which is specifically designed to give independent filmmakers with a tight budget to make films. That’s where the version itself from General Lee lives. Then Hurrican Ida struck.
This is one of the obstacles that the General cannot avoid
Ida landed on Sunday, August 29, near Port Fourchon as a category 4. Sustainable Wind 150 MPH hit everything around him, including home and studio John Schneider in Holden. Ida is now considered the second most destructive storm to land in Louisiana, just sitting behind the storm Katrina (2005).
Schneider and his family are in Nashville, Tennessee, organizing flood assistance efforts for the victims in the middle Tennessee at that time, so they were not injured. However, they could not say the same thing for his home, studio, or General Lee. A picture from outside the studio shortly after Ida raging shows that it is generally tilted beside him with a large root, with a tall pecan tree placed on the tangled roof.
A report from TMZ shortly after the incident said this was only a “acrobatal car,” and Schneider had “several” other models of the General. Schneider gave an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail where this was confirmed. According to Schneider, General Lee who was damaged was not even a charger in 1969 but the modified Ford Crown Victoria that they used as an action car in the studio for several years. He plans to return it but only “straighten it a little and leave it like that.”
