Antique & Classic Cars Blog

In the recent Coolest Car Ever posts, a few people nominated the Batmobile (my vote). I was up in Rogers yesterday and hoped to snap a couple pics of the example the Ellingson Car Museum used to have on hand. Alas, its owner came for it. Supposedly the car was one of the five knockoffs George Barris made of the Futura-based original during the series.

I was hoping to maybe even wrangle the chance to sit in the thing but it wasn’t to be. But don’t count Ellingson out on cool cars. Among its many treasures is one of the ten Chargers the studio owned when they discontinued the Dukes of Hazzard.

With frame-bending jumps in most episodes, the show had a voracious appetite for Dodge’s sleek muscle car and consumed some 180 to 200 over its run.

This one escaped serious damage, though. The actor who played Cooter even signed the air cleaner. Sweet.

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