Bubba On Buying Dukes Of Hazzard Car: It's About An American Cultural Institution!

Karen Crouse on Bubba Watson driving his Confederate-flag painted Dukes of Hazzard car purchase around Scottsdale.

The confederate flag painted on the roof was an issue for Watson’s wife, he said.

“I said it’s not about the confederate flag, it’s about the show and what it stands for,” he said.

And it stands for what again? Bad 80s television? Hayseeds in heat?

“It’s the most recognizable car. So years and years of persuading her, it didn’t help. Then finally we’ve never been to the Barrett-Jackson, because I’ve always played the Hope, now the Humana.

You know the Barrett-Jackson does conflict for me as well. That's always the weekend of my favorite rare wine auction in Paris. Anyway, go on...

"So I took it off this year. So a friend asked us to go and it was just sitting there.”

And the price was right.

“I wasn’t going to go much more money than that,” Watson said. “Because they were predicting a lot higher numbers, but for some reason it just fell in my lap.”