"Good lord!" Luke exclaimed. "You sure about that, Teddy?"

"'Luke, I's trained by Cooter so I know my way around a car. Now I'm not saying that that gas tank would go for sure but as far as that converter overheatin', I can almost guarantee that."

"Well what are we doin' standin' around her squawkin' with Bo in danger? We need to git to a phone, and fast!"

With that, Jesse turned and started heading for Cooter's as fast as his feet would carry him. Cooter, who was under the hood working on a car, was startled to sense someone walk past him.

"Hey Uncle Jesse." Cooter said when he saw who it was.

"I ain't your Uncle Jesse." He threw over his shoulder. "Mabel, get me the Atlanta Motor Speedway." He said into the phone.

"Well, I can see Jesse's back to his old self." Cooter stated when Luke walked up.

"'Fraid there's trouble. Bo's down at the Atlanta Motor Speedway 'bout to run a race for Billy Kay."

Cooter's face brightened. "Hey, that don't sound like no trouble to me!"

"Well, it is if you're down there thinking you're about to drive General Lee, when all you really have is a junker decoy with a major mechanical defect."

"Come again?" Cooter asked. Luke then explained the situation to him.

"Billy Kay…………..no no no he IS there, he took the spot of another driver today…….no I don't know which one………well see what you can find out!"

Luke eyed his Uncle who looked as if his blood pressure wasrising by the minute. "Jesse, want any help on the phone?"

"The only thing I need help with is figurin' out how I let you boys snooker me into lettin' Bo go down to that race in the first place……Hello?...Who've I got?...You got anything to do with Billy Kay?...His pit crew?...Good, I'm lookin' for Bo….Bo Duke, he's supposed to be racin' that car today for Billy."

Jesse appeared to relax a little. "There goin' to get him on the phone."

"Jesse, I don't know what you're all upset about. There ain't no way they're gonna let Bo in that race without checkin' the car out real good first." Cooter stated.

"We hope not." Luke replied. "But Billy's been in the General and he thinks it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Now the car he has isn't the General, but he thinks it is. With that to consider…..who knows?"

"Bo! Bo!" Jesse said into the phone.

"Who is this, I can't hardly hear you!" Bo replied, standing at a phone in an orange racing uniform, engines revving in the background as several cars were being attended to.

"Bo, you can't drive that car today, it ain't the General!"

"What?"

"It ain't the General!"

"What?"

"You can't race today!"

"Jesse, I know you're nervous about it but I already committed myself to be in this race. If Luke talked to you, you know we need the money."

"Bo, the car ain't no good. If you drive it you're gonna get yourself killed!"

"I apologize Uncle Jesse but I can't hear a word your sayin', and I gotta go. I promise I'll be careful. I'll talk to you later. Bye." With that, Bo hung up.

"Dang it!" Jesse exclaimed, hanging up. "He couldn't hear me at all."

"Well we gotta get down there, and fast!" Luke said. "Cooter, you comin'?"

"Would I miss it?" Cooter asked in assurance.

"Well get on the CB and let Daisy know what's goin' on." Jesse instructed.

Luke grabbed Cooter's CB. "This here's lost sheep callin' bo peep."

Daisy was sitting at the kitchen table with a friend and got up to answer the CB. "Bo Peep here. Luke, you and Uncle Jesse gonna be gone much longer? Betty Jean's come to see Jesse, 'least that's her excuse for bein' here anyway." Daisy replied as the two ladies giggled. Betty Jean was a girlfriend of Luke's.

"'Fraid so, Bo Peep. We gotta get down to Atlanta and stop Bo from bein' in that race. It's a long story, we'll have to explain later."

"Oh, it sounds serious, Luke. Do you have time to pick me up?"

"'Fraid not. As a matter of fact, we'll probably go see about getting Enos to take us down there, since he can get us through faster. Besides, Jesse's pickup just doesn't have the power for a lot of hard drivin'."

"Why don't they just take the General?" Betty Jean asked Daisy.

"Bo has it with him down in Atlanta." Daisy replied.

Betty Jean looked confused, she then asked for the CB. "Luke, this is Betty Jean."

"Hey Betty Jean." Luke could not help but smile a bit. "Better make it quick, gorgeous, we gotta put some road behind us fast."

"Well Luke, I could be wrong, but my brother Bobby was up at the old Chocktaw Indian Mines just this morning and he said there was a car in one of those caves that looked like the General Lee."

Cooter, Jesse, and Luke looked at each other in realization. "The Chocktaw Indian mines, you say?"

"Yeah. That was another reason I had come by, to ask about it. 'Course, I didn't consider it a big emergency since I figured you had it up there for some reason. Remember when you used to takeme up there to show me, ah, where 'Jesse's still used to be'?"

"How could I forget?" Luke replied, blushing slightly, an act that brought a stern look from his Uncle. "We appreciate the tip, Betty Jean. We'll explain things later. Over and out."

"Cooter?"

"Don't say another word. I'll have you to those mines quicker than you can say 01 has won the race!"

They all hopped in the tow truck and took off for the mines at high speed.

Ya know, race cars are one thing, but that tow truck of Cooter's has got to be one of the toughest vehicles I've ever laid eyes on.