• The Duke boys are up to no good again. Grab the keys to the cruiser.
• This Plymouth tribute police car has plenty of fun details that line up with the cars used onscreen in Hazzard County, right down to a service sticker from ol’ Cooter.
• It’s sure to make fans of the show smile, but we wouldn’t attempt any jumps with it.

At the recent reveal of the Dodge Charger PPV police-pursuit package, CEO Matt McAlear joked, “It's always taken a Charger to catch a Charger.” Famously, there's one Mopar patrol car that never actually was able to track down its bright
orange quarry, and here it is.

Driving worryingly fast towards a “Bridge Out” sign over at Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos), it's a 1971 Plymouth Sport Fury done up in the style of a police cruiser from The Dukes of Hazzard. Better make sure your basset hound has a seatbelt on, Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane, because your track record shows that this car will soon be flying into a feed silo, ditch, or similar.

All those crashes were pretty hard on the Mopar cop car survivability rate, to say nothing of the unnecessary violence approved in the pursuit of the Blues Brothers later on. Audiences love seeing a police car skid around, take out a fruit stand, and then make that sad siren noise when its chasing days are over.

This '71 Plymouth four-door escaped the stunt-driving woodchipper, perhaps in part because this Sport Fury was originally civilian-spec; it was later converted to look like one of the Hazzard patrol cars. It's a faithful conversion and looks great.

Under the hood is a 300-hp, 383-cubic-inch V-8 paired with a four-barrel carburettor and a three-speed automatic transmission. It's a big car, but that's plenty of poke to actually catch up with a Charger. Maybe Sheriff Roscoe shouldn't have been sawing at the steering wheel like he was miming being the captain of a pirate
ship.

As a tribute, some of the details here are very nicely executed. There's plenty of genuine police equipment, from a Tomar 925 lightbar to a siren and PA speaker, and the builder has even gone to the trouble of affixing a service reminder sticker from the fictional Cooter's Garage.

It's the perfect accompaniment for a Dodge Charger General Lee tribute, rolling into your local car show like you were chasing 'em down. Alternatively, why not skip the high-tempo banjo chase music fade-out and just let the Duke boys slip away? Boss Hawg's gonna scream at you either way, so just cruise on down the road and enjoy how every passerby smiles and waves as they recognize one of the stars of their favorite TV show.

The auction ends on August 25.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and photographer based in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. He grew up splitting his knuckles on British automobiles, came of age in the golden era of Japanese sport-compact performance, and began writing about cars and people in 2008. His particular interest is the intersection between humanity and machinery, whether it is the racing career of Walter Cronkite or Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki's half-century obsession with the Citroën 2CV. He has taught both of his young daughters how to shift a manual transmission and is grateful for the excuse they provide to be perpetually buying Hot Wheels.