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Lake County Fair Painesville, Ohio Northeast Ohio Dukes - Hazzard County Stunt Show Saturday, August 21st - 7:30 p.m. Come see the "General Lee" on display throughout the Fair!  Raymond Kohn was born in 1977 in Richmond, Virginia. The Dukes of Hazzard© first aired in January of 1979 and as a small child, it made a big impression on him. Ray was obsessed. His parents could not keep him from the television when it would air. As he would eat his dinner in front of the T.V., watching the Duke boys race around in their General Lee, during commercial breaks Ray would dream about the day when he would be old enough to have a General Lee of his own. As Ray got older he continued to watch The Dukes of Hazzard© up until the series ended in 1985. As with any young adult, other interests took over and Ray had forgotten about The Dukes of Hazzard© altogether. In the mid-1990's a television station called The Nashville Network® (TNN) started airing old episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard© and it rekindled that same love affair with the General Lee he had had as a little boy.  To make his childhood dream come true, Ray immediately started looking for a late 60's Dodge Charger to start building his own 'General Lee'. Ray came across his first Dodge Charger for $800 and the building process began. As Ray was building his 'General Lee' he thought it would be cool if he had a Hazzard County Sheriff's police car so he found the right year and make as the one in the series and began building it. After seven long years of blood, sweat, tears and whole lot of money, the 'General Lee' and the 'Hazzard County Sheriff' police car were completed!As fate would have it, Ray finished his cars just as the motion picture version of The Dukes of Hazzard© was about to be released. The video music channel, MTV, approached Ray about using his cars in a show called, "Your Movie Show" which aired in 2005. Since then, Ray has done shows with the original television cast members including "Bo Duke" himself, John Schnieder, Ben Jones as "Cooter", and James Best as "Rosco"! Ray says, "Thinking back when I was a child, I would have done anything to have the opportunity to see the General Lee, let alone ride in it! We are here to give this special opportunity to "Dukes of Hazzard©" fans of all ages." For more information go to www.northeastohiodukes.com |