41chevy Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 No more General Lee...just an orange car with a number... P.C. appears to rule.http://www.web2carz.com/autos/news/1373/general-lee-models-to-lose-confederate-flag Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 But we still can look at this Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 But we still can look at thisJust don't post any recent pictures of her. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullhusk Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 No more General Lee...just an orange car with a number... P.C. appears to rule.http://www.web2carz....onfederate-flagI'm sure a flag of Lebia would be ok??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 phew does she look rough. she looked rough 15 years ago as well. think they bondoed her up for TV. after that she went right down hill like when she was in Masters of Menace, the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Just don't post any recent pictures of her.X2 - she didn't age well (or the money for reconstructive surgery ran out). Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 But we still can look at thisBoy, I gotta say shes hot. I love watchin Duke re runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Yep Vinny. Back in the day, she was mighty fine.But as others have stated, age did her no favors Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 This is bullshit. Google more news stories about it- Even the guy who played cooter (I forget his name, now a senator in Georgia) got involved and the toy Mfr backed down....I think.....IIRC.....but then again I cant remember what I had for lunch this afternoon. Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeMan Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 That is a pile of bullshit. Next they will want to take it off the cars... If only people new that flag had nothing to do with slavory..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 This is bullshit. Google more news stories about it- Even the guy who played cooter (I forget his name, now a senator in Georgia) got involved and the toy Mfr backed down....I think.....IIRC.....but then again I cant remember what I had for lunch this afternoon.AMT Models won't comply because they also do Cooters wrecker, Daisy's Jeep, Roscoes Police car and some other car. RC 2 and Tomi are 1/18 diecasters turned tail and became "correct".Carrera who does the 1/32 and 1/24 high end slot cars, Retro Hobbies who is maker of the old Aurora AFX slot cars and 1/64 diecast said no to removing the flag.People are upset over something that they have only the medias slant on it ... If they find it offensive go past and don't look. When we went to the Smithsonian Aircraft storage facility at Silverhill, a man and woman with 2 young boys made a big to do over the markings on 3 WWII German aircraft. It's history get over it. Hey Vinny! Here is Daisy today..... Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeMan Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Thanks for that photo, now i wont sleep tonight lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTFormula Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 So for 30 years it's ok but now people are complaining? Time for people to worry about more important things like getting rid of our President. 1 Quote ~ JT Burkard ~ AKA Sweaty Mackwww.jtresto.com www.wickedreputation.netwww.jonathanthomasmotorcars.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Blaylock Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 That is just wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 I was reading about this a month or two ago. There was so much outrage over it, including from Ben Jones (had to look it up) the guy who played Cooter, now a Senator from Georgia.....Imagine that Cooter is a Senator......That the Toy Mfr who owns the licensing rights (Mattel maybe?) agreed to back down. I think. Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 So for 30 years it's ok but now people are complaining? Time for people to worry about more important things like getting rid of our President.excellant responce hahahahahahahaha,,,ya lets keep the flag and get rid of this phony president...bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted September 21, 2012 Author Share Posted September 21, 2012 I was reading about this a month or two ago. There was so much outrage over it, including from Ben Jones (had to look it up) the guy who played Cooter, now a Senator from Georgia.....Imagine that Cooter is a Senator......That the Toy Mfr who owns the licensing rights (Mattel maybe?) agreed to back down. I think."Responding to the continuing rumors, Ben Jones, the actor who portrayed Cooter in the television series, weighed in with a fiery press release. “Some unnamed genius at the company feels that the flag is ‘offensive to some’ and therefore it has no business on a classic TV comedy about a bunch of good ol’ boys and girls in the Southern mountains,”Mr. Jones, a former two-term Democratic congressman from Georgia, wrote. “This is a new level of ‘P.C.’ idiocy. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of being insulted by morons.”In the latest statement earlier this week, Mr. Jones, who organizes theme events around the franchise and sells related merchandise online and through his store, Cooter’s Place, in Nashville, said that there were “reliable and verifiable reports from the Warner Brothers car licensees with whom we do business that as of Jan. 1, 2013, the Confederate banner on top of the General Lee would be removed because some people ‘found it offensive.’ " Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Thats news to me. Sad news. Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rw613 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 "Responding to the continuing rumors, Ben Jones, the actor who portrayed Cooter in the television series, weighed in with a fiery press release. “Some unnamed genius at the company feels that the flag is ‘offensive to some’ and therefore it has no business on a classic TV comedy about a bunch of good ol’ boys and girls in the Southern mountains,”Mr. Jones, a former two-term Democratic congressman from Georgia, wrote. “This is a new level of ‘P.C.’ idiocy. I don’t know about you, but I am tired of being insulted by morons.”In the latest statement earlier this week, Mr. Jones, who organizes theme events around the franchise and sells related merchandise online and through his store, Cooter’s Place, in Nashville, said that there were “reliable and verifiable reports from the Warner Brothers car licensees with whom we do business that as of Jan. 1, 2013, the Confederate banner on top of the General Lee would be removed because some people ‘found it offensive.’ "if uncle jessie was still alive and WAYLON DAM JENNINGS HED SAY I DONT KNOW ABOUT YALL BUT IM TIRED OF THIS SHIT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superdog Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 guess I'll have to dig up my old cofederate license plate and put on ole Super Mutt.Then let's see some PC bastard try and take it off me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rw613 Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 guess I'll have to dig up my old cofederate license plate and put on ole Super Mutt.Then let's see some PC bastard try and take it off me.guess I'll have to dig up my old cofederate license plate and put on ole Super Mutt.Then let's see some PC bastard try and take it off me.amen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Here's one we can enjoy Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 HatCity.......it would be fine if I had a magnifying glass to see her. And probably someone is going to tell me to click my mouse on her?mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Try this one out.mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawel Posted September 21, 2012 Share Posted September 21, 2012 Well friends, things like that always bother me. As you maybe know, I'm a modeller who cares about the accuracy of the models. I Poland, in the eighties, you couldn't get models of German equipment, because they were just that - politically incorrect. Then the "communism" ended in 1989 and everything opened up and you could model everything you could afford (not much but still better than nothing). Now every now and then you see efforts to ban something from being modelled - be it the nazi swastika, the soviet red star, the figure of the pope (yeah, they made a model of him in Poland and the ultra-catholics were afraid they're loosing the grip on the subject!). Everything like this makes me shake my head. Guess it's easier to outlaw than to explain. Now what does it mean in clear text "someone might be offended"? I say they were afraid of a boycott. Guess the company estimates there are more offended buyers than those who like the flag.Maybe we should find a way to hurt the company financially? Only then they will know they did wrong. If we're unable to, that menas we're the minority, and then the majority wil have it's way - isn't this democracy?I mean porn offends some people too, but they weren't outlawed yet - the suppliers WILL follow the demand.Or maybe let's sell flag decals so that everybody can make the correct version of General Lee at home - that would be the freedom of choice! Let's not let the corporations rule! Thanks for reading and have a nice dayPaweł 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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