Continuity mistake: Bo is waiting for Luke's escapade with Laurie, and meanwhile listens to Al Unser Jr.'s story narrated by Laurence Fishburne. He checks out of the case of the tape propping it against the left or the right of the steering wheel depending on the camera angle. (00:02:40)
Continuity mistake: When Bo is talking to Laurie's father (while Laurie and Luke are in the upstairs bedroom) you see Laurie throw some clothes out onto the roof. In the very next shot the clothes are in different places. (00:04:05)
Continuity mistake: When we hear a gunshot and Luke rolls out of the upstairs window onto the roof, the whole upper house is bathed in sunlight, then is instantly in complete shade. (00:04:15)
Continuity mistake: After the boys run five miles to the Boar's Nest, the sweat stains on Bo's blue t-shirt starts disappearing and reappearing. When Bo gives a beer to Billy Prickett, his shirt is dry in one shot, and then again has a wet sweat stain in the next. The shirt goes through other various stages of sweatiness throughout the Boar's Nest scene. (00:09:30)
Continuity mistake: After Bo has brought Billy Prickett a pint of beer, the beer glass keeps moving as evident by the handle changing its direction. Also the pint is completely full, but when Bo picks it up to drink from it (before attacking Dil) it is half full. (00:12:45)
Continuity mistake: When Sheriff Rosco enters the bar and the Duke boys stand in front of him, in the shot from behind Bo loosens the strap of the helmet he is wearing but does not unclip it. In the next shot it is suddenly unclipped and loose, and he then removes the helmet. (00:15:50)
Continuity mistake: When Cooter (the engineer) goes over to his desk to make a phonecall, after Sheriff Rosco has left, the items on the desk completely change their position between shots. (00:24:55)
Continuity mistake: When Luke is trying to pull the safe free from behind the telephone pole, watch the chain that the safe is attached to. It keeps changing from being on the left side of the pole, to the right side and back again. (00:28:00)
Continuity mistake: When Boss Hogg is cooking in the bar, the ingredients on the side and on the chopping board change position, most noticeable is the onion. (00:30:20)
Continuity mistake: As Roscoe is trying to get Sheev's attention, the gummy worms in the pots, on the counter, change colour and position. (00:31:10)
Continuity mistake: Sheev's inner patterned jacket (under his orange bomber-jacket) changes position a few times from opened to closed, when standing around the safe. (00:34:00)
Continuity mistake: The plastic explosives molded onto the safe that the Duke's and Sheev are going to blow open keeps moving (note the strips in the center of the safe door.) (00:34:35)
Continuity mistake: The distance between Sheev, Bo and Luke as they stand in front of the safe waiting for it to explode, and again when Luke shoots the arrow at it, keeps changing. (00:35:20)
Continuity mistake: The arrangement of the core samples in the safe changes, just after Sheev walks away. The two samples in the bottom left move to being in the centre. (00:36:50)
Continuity mistake: When the police cars pull up outside Cooters, just as the Duke's drive out with the fixed General Lee, the position of the police cars keep changing (note it's position in relation with the parking markings.) (00:37:25)
Visible crew/equipment: When the camera pans into General Lee, as the Dukes sit on the Atlanta highway, in the backseat window you can see a red camera dot panning alongside the shot. (00:40:20)
Continuity mistake: When the Duke's are in General Lee on the highway, people pass in their vehicles and shout at them. In some shots Bo has his hands on the steering wheel and in some shots they aren't. (00:40:35)
Visible crew/equipment: When Bo and Luke are on their way to Atlanta, on the road people drive by them, yelling at them. As one car stops, you can clearly see a large white reflector reflected in that car's window. (00:41:15)
Continuity mistake: When Billy Prickett walks into the back garage to find Sheriff Rosco and Boss Hogg, there is a car beisde them with a white sheet over it. During shots, the large creases in this white sheet keep changing. (00:42:30)
Continuity mistake: When Luke is showing Katie the core sample in the dormitory hallway, when she hands it back to him he puts it in his bag, but in the next shot it is back out in his right hand. (00:48:20)
Answer: Given the massive hype surrounding the film, and the untold publicity it garnered the Charger, I think it's highly unlikely that it was a coincidence, more a cynical marketing strategy.
Manky