The General Lee

D-180 Days - Chris receives a Christmas present from his sister. A 1:24 scale General Lee Nearly once a week, somebody does something minor to the car such as leave sweet tarts on it, a piece of confetti...even lower the hood, which Chris spots and puts it back to its raised position again. And each time Chris makes some comment about somebody messing with "The General."

D-30 - A (Matt), decides The General is too big a target to pass up for a prank, so he starts searching for an exact duplicate.

D-21 - Matt finds the same model car as Chris' and purchases it for $17.

D-14 - Matt receives the car and starts documenting as he does terrible things to it

D-Day (Monday) - Chris gets to work to find his car missing...

D+1 - Tuesday - Still no clues on the car

D+2 - Wednesday - Even though Matt is not at work, Chris receives a ransom note with impossible demands.

D+3 - Thursday - Matt's back at work. Chris receives a followup note that says that since demands weren't met, prepare to pay the penalty...and leaves a beat up wheel from the 2nd car. At a company team meeting, the LCD projector is there for a "presentation" which turns out to be The Video of The General Lee's Burnination (see link).

The Movie - 6MB file - right-click and choose Save Target As

After the meeting, he comes back to find the burninated car on his monitor.

After a few minutes, Matt finally pulls out the original car in pristine condition. And now both cars sit side by side on the monitor: