{"id":120,"date":"2007-05-09T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-06-21T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-21T13:47:29","slug":"whoops-i-dont-have-10-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/whoops-i-dont-have-10-million\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Whoops I don&#8217;t have $10 million!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-images\/generallee.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>So by now you have heard that John Schneider&#8217;s 1969 Dodge Charger &#8211; one of the many &#8220;General Lee&#8217;s&#8221; out there &#8211; was up for sale on eBay.  Bids were coming in at several million dollars, until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2007\/05\/04\/dukes-of-hazard-car-sells-for-almost-10-million\/\">one guy bid $10 million<\/a> for it.  There&#8217;s a funny thing about bidding.  You can sort of just yell out whatever the hell it is you want, and then you win, assuming no one out bids you.  That&#8217;s what this guy did, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2007\/05\/09\/general-lee-ebay-bidder-a-phony\/\">according to TMZ, he can&#8217;t pay.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First of all, even as a huge fan of the Dukes of Hazzard, a 1969 Dodge Charger &#8211; even with the 440 <b>and<\/b> signed by John Schneider isn&#8217;t even worth a million, in my opinion.  This is what you do.  Go on eBay, and spend $30,000 for a 1969 Dodge Charger in excellent condition.  Then, repaint the fucker, spend another $10,000 for a great engine, and boom, you have yourself a General Lee for less than $50,000.  Then, you can drive it to the annual Hazzard event in Georgia, and get it signed by the cast.  Problem solved.  Saved just under $10 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So by now you have heard that John Schneider&#8217;s 1969 Dodge Charger &#8211; one of the many &#8220;General Lee&#8217;s&#8221; out there &#8211; was up for sale on eBay. Bids were coming in at several million dollars, until one guy bid $10 million for it. There&#8217;s a funny thing about bidding. You can sort of just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/whoops-i-dont-have-10-million\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Whoops I don&#8217;t have $10 million!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21,22],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dukes-of-hazzard","tag-general-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wilburstreet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}