[doug from upland]

It is only a matter of time until the NAACP and others cause Bubba some grief.

[doug from upland]

Updated Jan 24, 2012 5:21 AM ET

Golfer Bubba Watson has paid $110,000 for the car made famous by “The Dukes of Hazzard,” the General Lee.

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Hundreds of similar 1969 Dodge Chargers were used and wrecked in the filming of the TV series between 1979 and 1985, but Watson’s was the first ever used and can be seen jumping over a police car during the opening credits, FOX News reported.

“Lee 1” spent most of its life in a junkyard after being wrecked filming its famous flight through the Georgia sky.

It still had a trunk full of cement ballast when it was purchased by the president of the North American General Lee fan club for less than $1,000 about a decade ago.

Since then it has been fully restored to the original, imperfect condition it was in when it was brought to Oxford College on Veteran’s Day in 1978 to film the iconic scene.

More than 300 other General Lees would follow it during the seven-year run of the program.

Watson, a five-time winner on the PGA Tour, revealed on Twitter that he picked up the vehicle at the Barrett-Jackson auctions in Scottsdale, Ariz., over the weekend.

[tet68]

this is how freedom is undermined by liberal bean
counters, just look how this country has changed,
it’s sickening.

[cripplecreek]

[Tzimisce]

...being replaced with a picture of Che?

[Feckless]

your “sport” can go hugga root

[AAABEST]

NASCAR is intent on flushing itself down the toilet.

[Uncle Ike]

Et tu, NASCAR??

(Not a big NASCAR fan, myself - but always considered them to be one of the last bastions of benign contempt for Liberal Whining.. No more, I guess..)

[Trailerpark Badass]

Maybe they can get the Black Panthers to fill all those empty seats.

[dragnet2]

Maybe they can get a pacifier manufacturer to put something on the General Lee car. Or maybe tidy-bowl will sponsor it.

[x1stcav]

The beginning of the end of NASCAR.

I haven’t actually followed NASCAR since Glenn ‘Fireball’ Roberts died.

No more Pontiacs either.

The end of the Republic.

[Sherman Logan]

I do not recall any claims at the time that the show or the car was “racist.”

It is fascinating that just a little over a quarter century ago the flag on the car wasn’t an issue, but now it is.

[doug from upland]

[ForAmerica]

They have every right in the world to fly the confederate flag, but I don’t like the confederate flag! And I have the right not to like it!

[traditional1]

I think on the day after the Nov. 2012 Election results are broadcast (they already have the results, I think), I'm flying the stars 'n bars on my front lawn.

It would be great if all PROUD Americans, who eschew political correctness, would do the same.

[evad]

You watch. You're going to see thousands of General Lee 1 and Confederate flags at the next event...I guarantee it.

These are real fans, not wimps and wusses.

[evad]

You watch. You're going to see thousands of General Lee 1 and Confederate flags at the next event...I guarantee it.

These are real fans, not wimps and wusses.

[hinckley buzzard]

Only a matter of time before NASCAR drivers wear skirts.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

The people who hate the confederate flag will still call nascar racist regardless of what they do.The dumbasses running the show in nascar need to wake up to this,Its idiotic.I suppose nascar should make all the drivers wear hoodies instead.

[factoryrat]

Replace the stars and bars with a hammer and sickle, and the media would adore and applaud him.

[Kickass Conservative]

Do they still teach American History in School?

What's next, black bars covering the redacted parts of the school books?