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General Lee lasted several seasons, that 1969 Dodge Charger in solid orange with the (now endangered) Confederate Flag on top and the number 01 on the side doors that did not open. Actually, Warner Brothers recently decided to stop making General Lee toy cars with the Confederate Flag.
The General Lee made a lot of jumps. An almost unbelievable amount for a single Dodge Charger.
But actually, believe it or not, there were more than one General Lee cars. Most of the Chargers were totalled.
Can you guess how many?
220 were simply destroyed by the TV series. But when the show was cancelled it left 18 gathering dust on the set. They sold 17 to private collectors in 1991.
Chalk Paint 101 - How To Get That Vintage Look
Does pastel remind you of the 50s? This vintage look can be achieved with chalk paint. You can paint your old (or new) furniture with chalk paint to get this look… do it yourself.
Chalk paint is different from other paint because it contains plaster (because of the plaster it will stick to almost any furniture, and you don’t need to do layering the way you do with other paints).
You can either make your own plaster paint by adding plaster (a small amount — 5 tbsp Plaster of Paris to 2 tbsp water and 2 cups indoor paint) to regular paint or you can buy it already made.
The plaster tones the brightness and shinyness down, making the completed paint job mattish, and also, to some eyes, “antique.” You get a look with plaster paints that you don’t get from other paints, that’s for sure.
To seal this paint, use a wax after the chalk paint has dried. Apply the wax with a rag.
Save Your Citrus Trees With White Paint
Saplings and very young trees are susceptible to damage in ways older, bigger trees are not vulnerable to. An old-time method of dealing with this is shielding trees behind a layer of white paint.
Insect damage to trees, sunscald, cracked, damaged bark on the young saplings and trees can all be minimized with white paint.
Orchards do this, and so do tree farms. The main purpose isn’t insects; it’s preventing the cracking and splitting that can happen to tender new bark.
Once that bark is split, then disease, insects and fungus can get in.
What it does for insects is show where the infestations are more easily. Insects show up better against a white surface than bark. Some borers are also inhibited from making their home in the white trees. I could also imagine birds and other predators could more easily see insects walking over white bark and find them easier meals.
Painting with white is controversial, however, especially if the wrong paint is used, because it can harm a tree.
So what to use? Water-based latex paint, diluted at one gallon of latex mixed with 4-5 quarts of water. However, more latex is better against borers and thirds of the two listed ingredients plus joint compound is reported to be good against sunscald.
