general lee-related stories
Posted May 18th 2007 2:18PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Web, Celebrities
Adam mentioned last week that the person who put it the $10 million winning bid for the General Lee car on eBay didn't pay up. In fact, it now looks like that someone's eBay account was hacked and he wasn't even the one doing the bidding, it was someone else.
But now the car is for sale again on eBay, only this time you have to go through a strict qualification process before you can even bid on the car. No more phonies.
I don't really get this whole story. The car being auctioned, owned by former star John Schneider, wasn't even used on the show! Which is interesting, because they used over 300 different General Lees on the show. It's just an extra one. Sure, it's signed by the cast, but is that really worth $10 million (or even $5 million or $1 million)?
Posted May 10th 2007 2:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, Celebrities
Remember when the General Lee (or one of many versions) went up for auction on eBay recently and someone finally won the auction with a bid of $9,900,500?
Well, the person who made that bid, one William Fisher, has disappeared, along with the alleged $9,900,500 he was supposedly going to pay for the 1969 Dodge Charger owned by actor John Schneider (Bo Duke). The car itself was never used on the original series, but it did appear in the TV movie Dukes Go to Hollywood.
Continue reading eBay bidder fails to pay for General Lee
Posted May 5th 2007 6:08PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Celebrities
The General Lee broke a sales record on eBay this week. Actor John Schneider, who played Bo Duke on
The Dukes of Hazzard, put up his version of the General Lee and it sold for $9,900,500. If the bidder actually pays the money, it'll be the biggest ticket item ever sold on eBay. Schneider says he's stunned, because he only expected $3 million at the most for the car. He says he'll use the extra cash for a vacation and to fund a sequel to a movie he recently made.
As
I mentioned earlier this week, the 1969 Dodge Charger that Schneider put up for sale was not featured in the television show, but it did make an appearance in the movie
Dukes Go To Hollywood. It has signatures from all the original cast members and it actually drives! Schneider has taken it to charity events and even raced it.
What memorabilia would you pay $10 million for?
Posted May 2nd 2007 1:10PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, Celebrities
John Schneider appears to still be a fan of his old claim to fame,
The Dukes of Hazzard, on which he played Bo Duke. He has his own
"Hazzard County Store" on eBay and has put up the mother of all
Dukes memorabilia for auction: It's the General Lee. The real one... well, one of the real ones. There are quite a few out there.
Schneider's ad explains that the 1969 Dodge Charger appeared in the
Dukes movie, not the television show. He has had it for the last ten years. Photos on the advertisement show Schneider brought it to a lot of charity events, but he also has apparently driven it in races! It also has autographs of all the living cast members of
The Dukes of Hazzard. And he says that it recently won a race against the
Starsky & Hutch car and the Batmobile.
The current bid for the car is $2 million, which is a hell of a lot, but at least you get to drive it!
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Posted Mar 20th 2007 8:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Music and Variety, Celebrities
If you had plans to see Tom Wolpat and John Schneider of the Dukes of Hazzard perform with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, you'll have to wait. The performance, which was supposed to be based on the Dukes of Hazzard, was canceled when several people complained about the series' racist content.
Continue reading Dukes of Hazzard concert stopped over protests
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