The pageant in Somerset, Kentucky shocked the group with a duke of hazard-style stunts in town’s fountain sq. on Saturday.
Stunt driver Raymond Kohn was behind the wheels of the reproduction common automotive of the basic comedy present Hazard Duke Show, pounding fuel and propelling the 150-foot automotive on the intense blue waters of the fountain, the New York Post reported Sunday.
The stunt is a homage to the present that ran from 1979 to 1985, that includes the 1969 Dodge Charger’s quite a few leaps.
Video footage taken from the rooftop present The orange automotive runs in direction of the fountain, climbs the ramp and flies via the air earlier than hitting the pavement. When the stunt was safely accomplished, the group cried out in pleasure:
Korn stated his group spent months getting ready for the occasion.
He stated, “You get a shot with it. This is a really scary state of affairs. You are deliberately positioned in a life and loss of life state of affairs. I must give attention to one factor and hit that ramp.
More video footage exhibits the angle from the place the automotive landed.
Some estimates state that round 300 chargers had been destroyed whereas Duke Hazard was nonetheless filming.
According to Remind Magazine, the automotive had a “01” on the door, a Confederate flag on the roof, and the nook performed some notes on the music “Dixie.”
“It wasn’t simply the surface of the automotive that wanted to be replicated, however security measures had been added inside, together with roll cages and protecting push bars,” the article defined.
The YouTube clip exhibits a few of General Lee’s greatest jumps:
The latest Jump is Korn’s thirtieth time, and audiences at Somernitz Cruise Festival have come to satisfy stars of the sequence, together with John Schneider, who performed Bo Duke within the authentic TV present.
“Many of the exhibits’s stars are liked, however some followers actually really feel that General Lee can be the principle character of the present. Some reportedly modified the Dodge Charger to make it seem like the present,” the reminder article states.