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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
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I've told this story before, too -
There were multiple dozens if not hundreds of Dukes cars made for the TV show.
Our friend paint and body man Red Hodges up in Columbiaville was the local rep for Carl Casper auto shows.
Rather than build the cars out west and ship them here for custom auto show appearances it was decided to find local cars and build them here.
Red had a small production line going. Roll bars and push guards were made from exhaust tubing. They got so fast that John Chapin could paint and letter the flag on top in the length of time it took me to visit and drink a 12oz Coke.
After they had run the auto show circuit here they were shipped back for use on the TV show. By the end of the run the donor cars were getting pretty bad. Red would say "if you see a pink cloud when the car hits the ground you'll know it was this one...."
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