"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
07/09/2019 at 21:35 • Filed to: None
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"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
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Every week, I look over EU eBay for absolutely no reason. I spotted this beautiful General Lee for sale. I asked myself: who would buy a confederate American movie car in the United Kingdom. Then the answer came to me:
Richard “Big Dick” Hammond
I mean, what other British person is stupid enough to do so then our secret American?
daender
> AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
07/09/2019 at 21:54 |
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I thought Hammond had a ‘68 Charger or did he sell that one to help fund the ‘69?
CRider
> AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
07/09/2019 at 22:50 |
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I wonder what kind of Brit would drive a car with the Confederate flag on the roof.
duurtlang
> CRider
07/10/2019 at 03:32 |
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Outside of the US the confederate flag has zero meaning, ignoring those few people specifically interested in American history. It’s a random flag that is painted on an orange car in a vintage tv show. So when you want to recreate the TV show car, you include the flag on its roof .
I do understand that the context inside the US is rather different.
KnowsAboutCars
> CRider
07/10/2019 at 06:13 |
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Over here in the N ordics it’s basically just a symbol for rockabilly and raggare culture. I wouldn’t be surprised if it had even less meaning elsewhere in Europe (at least outside the rockabilly crowd).
Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
> AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
07/10/2019 at 08:48 |
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Johnny Smith from fifth gear and now Fully charged has one!
Thomas Donohue
> daender
07/10/2019 at 08:52 |
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Does he really need to fund anything, short of an old Ferrari or Bugatti purchase ? In addition to the salary he got, t hey are still due an additional $40 million payout from Amazon (split four ways w/producer).
If anything I’d think he was short on room in the garage, or approval from his wife.
(S orry for using the word ‘short’ so many times. It wasn’t intentional.)
K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
07/10/2019 at 11:28 |
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Who wouldn’t buy that? I’m black and I’d buy it! It’s a god damn TV show tribute car, not Mein Kampf.
Beans
> CRider
07/10/2019 at 20:44 |
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It’s just a flag.
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CRider
> duurtlang
07/10/2019 at 21:18 |
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Outside the US the General Lee and the Dukes of Hazard have little meaning, but somebody went and bought a Charger and did this to it didn’t they?
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CRider
> Beans
07/10/2019 at 21:19 |
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A flag that has a lot of history and symbolism attached to it. That's literally what flags are for.
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duurtlang
> CRider
07/11/2019 at 00:57 |
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That’s where you wrong. The Dukes of Haz ard have been broadcasted in many countries. As a kid I watched it all the time. Just like the A-Team, Knight Rider and even Airwolf. Those series we’re broadcasted dubbed or subtitled everywhere. Show that orange Charger (or the A-Team van) to a random person aged 25-45 in Europe, a person who doesn’t care about cars, and they will recognize it and tell you from which series it originated. Half of those people probably have never even heard about the civil war in the US, let alone who fought who and what for. They certainly won’t know what that flag stands for. But the General Lee Charger, common knowledge.
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> daender
07/11/2019 at 01:59 |
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That wasn’t his car. He was just reviewing it.
It was that car that caused him to buy his 69
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> Thomas Donohue
07/11/2019 at 02:01 |
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“ (Sorry for using the word ‘short’ so many times. It wasn’t intentional.) ”
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> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
07/11/2019 at 02:03 |
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Are you sure? Because I’m pretty sure every charger was made out of unsold copies of Mein Kampf.
That’s why the sheet metal is paper thin
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K-Roll-PorscheTamer
> AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
07/11/2019 at 02:51 |
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No Chargers are made outta Catcher in The Rye and Huck Fin.
At worst, a little bit of Birth of a Nation.
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AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
> K-Roll-PorscheTamer
07/11/2019 at 09:49 |
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Oh shit. I was fine until you mentioned Birth Of A Nation. Now im having BlacKkKlansmen flashbacks