TMCP #478: Buddy Cram’s Dream Business: From Full time NASCAR to Full Time “General Lee” Builder!
The MuscleCar Place
Robert Kibbe
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Today's guest is Buddy Cram. He might just actually be living the life I thought was too good to be true: he operates a business called General Lee Chargers, and their one and only mission in the world is to build General Lee's for Dukes of Hazzard loving fans! While that's cool, Buddy's background in NASCAR - and love of MOPAR - both combined to bring him to turn a childhood desire into full time business. He's currently building his 56th customer car, and two more are already on order! Here's the story behind the story.
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| 0:00.0 | The Muscle Car Place Online Podcast, episode number 478. This week, another trip down the road of dreaming the impossible dream. |
| 0:09.1 | We're going to speak to Buddy Cram, owner of a business called General Lee Chargers. |
| 0:14.5 | Buddy's business builds, you guessed it, General Lee's. That's right, it turns out it can be done. |
| 0:19.8 | He's doing one for a listener of ours, in fact. |
| 0:22.6 | Now, believe it or not, but he is a Dodge guy through and through, had a long career in NASCAR, helped bring Dodge back into NASCAR in 2001, |
| 0:30.6 | and he even ended up working for Richard Petty the King. But all that's a discussion for another day. |
| 0:35.5 | This is the story about building Generalese to order, and all that goes along with that as a full-time living. |
| 0:42.2 | At the height of it, we were building 10 a year. |
| 0:45.3 | How many have you done so far? |
| 0:47.0 | Well, Steve Boyce is actually number 56. |
| 0:53.9 | This is the Muscle Car Place, weekly online podcast. |
| 0:58.1 | Brought to you by National Parks Depot. |
| 1:00.8 | This is the weekly show dedicated to people worldwide who love American muscle cars. |
| 1:06.7 | Whether you're buying them, selling, restoring, or even racing them, this is the place for you. |
| 1:13.0 | Now, here's your host, Rob Kibby. |
| 1:16.9 | Yes, indeed, I am Rob Kibby, and welcome to the Muscle Car Place podcast. |
| 1:21.3 | So here's a fun show today. |
| 1:23.5 | For those of you who have always wanted to build cars for a living, and maybe like me had a super nerdy harboring for the General Lee in particular. |
| 1:32.0 | Well, this is the interview you've been waiting for. |
| 1:34.9 | Buddy Graham has been building Generalese for over 15 years and is about to do his 60th. |
| 1:40.3 | He's approaching that. |
| 1:41.2 | So that's coming up. |
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