This past weekend saw the Chip Foose Braselton Bash presented by car expert Year One at its Braselton, Georgia, headquarters. The huge car show, named for automotive design guru and TV star Chip Foose, benefits the Progeria Research Foundation, an organization dedicated to discovering the cure for Progeria, a fatal, "rapid aging" disease that afflicts children causing death of heart disease at an average age of 13.

I was there on Saturday, as a guest of Mr. Marvin Murphy, a Florida resident who has completely restored the car affectionately dubbed Lee 1 (see the November 13, 2006 post of my daily news blog). You see, a couple years back, Marvin bought a slice of TV history -- the very first screen-used General Lee of "The Dukes of Hazzard." He had the vehicle completely restored from a virtual skeleton to the condition it was when it was first filmed. Above, you see Marvin chatting with show attendees next to the car. This is the first and likely only appearance the car will make in 2008.

"I have nothing planned for it," Marvin told me when I asked what kind of shows the car's done since its splashy debut in Covington, Georgia, two years ago and its follow-up the next month in Indianapolis. "It probably won't go anywhere else until it's sold."

Sold? Yes, indeed! "It is for sale," Marvin affirms. "I bought it and fixed it up with the intention of selling it for the show's 30th anniversary." The series, which featured the car in its historic jump at Georgia's Oxford College filmed in November 1978, debuted in January 1979.

"It will sell for seven figures," Marvin says of the car. "I wouldn't be at all surprised if it sells to someone out of the country."

Marvin also had as his guest Mr. Don Schisler, original transportation director for "The Dukes of Hazzard," shown with Marvin in the photo below.