WARREN, Ohio - It started out as a bunch of guys who liked a TV show and turned into ten years of stunts and performances across the country. The Northeast Ohio Dukes have enjoyed a wild ride.

Growing up, it was pretty much Raymond Kohn's dream car. He never dreamed that one day he'd be a stunt driver, flying through their air in his own version of the General Lee.

"I don't know if it was guts or stupidity or craziness," said Kohn. "We jumped it for the first time August 31st 2007. We were asked to do it multiple times after that. Never expected to continue to do it."

But here he is ten years later, leading the Northeast Ohio Dukes and fresh off a jump at the Detroit Autorama. He has a whole crew now, performing Dukes of Hazzard style skits along with a full lineup of cars from the show, and Patrick Scurti's Knight Rider just for good measure.

"My best friend Rob Roushey was playing Luke, my dad was playing Uncle Jesse, my brother was playing Boss Hogg," said Kohn. "We all sort of added some more stunts to it. We wrote little scripts in between each stunt and it all blossomed into what it is today."

"I actually thought I was the only crazy one out there," said Scurti. "And then I ran into Raymond and the rest of the crew and I'm like, holy cow these guys are about as insane as I am."

Insane just about covers it. Raymond's broken an ankle, a wrist, had the wind knocked out of him several times. And that's just the jumps. Before they even get to that point, you have to find a Dodge Charger from that 68-to-70 era and then find time and money to restore it.

"We do this for fun," said Kohn. "It's not like we're sitting on a lot of money like Warner Brothers did where they can have a back lot with 50 General Lees on it. We make the cars as we get booked for a show."

"It costs about six thousand dollars to make this into a running, safe General Lee just for you to jump it," said Kohn. "Usually takes about three weeks from start to finish and that's if everybody's involved, everybody's helping."

The General Lee is the finished product, but when they first get them, the cars are basically a pile of junk. So they're bringing the cars back to life for one last moment in the sun.

"I always say, what better way to honor a Dodge Charger than to dress it up like the most famous Charger of them all and take it out with a sweet jump," said Kohn.

Which Raymond and the rest of the crew gladly do over and over again, bringing a little taste of Hazzard County to Trumbull County.

As a neat tie-in, actress Catherine Bach, who played Daisy Duke on the show, is actually from Warren which also happens to be where Raymond's shop is.

Their next show on the schedule is coming up this September at the Morrow County fair.