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mopardan

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    mopardan reacted to Hobie Hartkins in Hi!   
    It's good to see you here!   
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    mopardan reacted to HossC in Hi!   
    Welcome to HNet, Dan. Looking at your interests, I'd say you'll fit right in here.

    I thought the name sounded familiar - I see that your first post was about Daisy's cars a few months ago.
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    mopardan got a reaction from Hobie Hartkins in Daisy's Cars   
    Thanks, sorry I took so long to respond a lots been going on right now...I'm back and forth on a favorite vehicle probably Daisy's '71 Satellite '71/72 Plymouth 2-door B-bodies are my favorite car, though her '74 Roadrunner has grown on me kind of cooler being a real Roadrunner instead of a Satellite with some stripes painted on, and of course there's always the General Lee. I've been a fan for about 11 years I'd say, its been a while, the shows always been an escape for me, I used to have all 7 seasons but they were destroyed...I do have the first 3 again and hopefully I'll have them all again. Kinda hard to pick a favorite character I guess Bo if I had to   
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    mopardan reacted to MonacoMan in Daisy's Cars   
    This may have been posted before, but as I was looking at the page that shows all the cars used by characters in the show,  I noticed there was some inaccuracies when it came to Daisy's cars. True, she started out the show with a yellow 1973/74 Plymouth Road Runner...but the story goes, when parts became too difficult to find to repair the few they had on the show, they switched to a 1971 Plymouth Satellite Sebring...painted with the Road Runner paint scheme. So, the '71 she used was actually a Satellite, and not a Road Runner. Just FYI.   What I don't understand though, is in 1979 a '74 vehicle would have only been 5 years old...you're telling me that barely five years later Chrysler wouldn't have replacement parts for one of their vehicles?   Just seems a little strange to me. But, maybe the parts were actually too expensive to continually order...and parts for the Satellite were cheaper for a while. Just a thought.
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    mopardan reacted to LifeTimeDoHFan_1977 in Hello everyone   
    My Name is Andrew. I am 43 years old. I am also a post 9/11 U.S. Navy Veteran. I served from May 2003 to April of 2007. I loved Dukes of Hazzard since I started watching it at a fairly young age. I loved watching DoH and Three's Company. Please pardon me for bringing up another show. Anyway, I do it my best to live my life by at least one of Uncle Jesse's famous quotes. At least along DoH fans like us. He said, "A stranger is just a friend I have no met yet." I live in Southern California. So out here I have to use tact. of course. Probably more so than I would like. Meaning I wish I did live in a place where more and more people saw us as fellow Americans. And not in our liberalized categories. White/Black, Straight/Gay and or Male or Female. I cannot stand all that bull sh_t myself. I am part of the Human Race. And my skin color is what it is because God picked it for me. And I know I had nothing to do with that choice. I do, however, have the choice as to how I treat others and I have the choice how I conduct myself. Sorry for getting on a little bit of a soap box. I just feel much more comfortable to say how I truly feel. Reminds me of Frank Sinatra's song, My Way. And I found this message board/website since I just spent $99.99 on the entire serious streaming on Youtube. Thank you to all of you who took the time to read this. I truly and honestly look forward to getting to know about all of you. 
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    mopardan reacted to Mach Man in The cars   
    Life goes fast.  I probably posted here once upon a time.  I have FINALLY completed a years long process.  The General Lee is built from an original MPC kit from 1969 I picked up from e-bay.  The previous owner had painted it a gold/copper color back in the day with automotive paint(cannot be stripped/etches itself into the plastic).  I came across the Lee 1 story and it was perfect.  It took parts from numerous kits and hours of replaying scenes from One Armed Bandit.  Stories on the background cars to follow.

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    mopardan reacted to RogerDuke in The coolest cars in Hazzard!   
    Thanks for knowing how I feel T.J.
    It's getting to the point that poor people can't even work on cars anymore. It's a good thing there are no computers in Hazzard 'cause poor Bo and Luke would have never been able to afford to work on the General if it had all the gizmos on it that these modern monstrosities do.
    If I looked under the hood of a 1969 Charger I'd be able to tell you what 95% of the things are and what they do. If I looked under the hood of a new car, I bet I wouldn't know 5% of what's there.
    You can't even see spark plugs anymore, let alone replace them. I used to be able to change starters, distributors, alternators, fuel pumps, carburators, water pumps and power steering pumps. Now I can't even find them.
    (I've looked all over the place for the carburator on my fuel injected Volvo but it's nowhere to be found...LOL)
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    mopardan reacted to MaximRecoil in Cooter's Truck   
    "Twin V6's"? How would that work exactly? BTW, the number of cylinders has nothing to do with how much power a motor can make. You could make a 1,000 horsepower 2 stroke 1 cylinder if you wanted to though it would rumble so violently that it would tear away from any motor mounts instantly. In general, more cylinders = a smoother running engine. Displacement is the major factor along with being able to circulate enough air through the system. More cylinders usually = more displacement but this is due to practicality, not necessity. A 500 cubic inch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 16 cylinder could all be built if anyone wanted to and they would all have similar power potential.
    The most powerful internal combustion motors for cars on the planet are hopped up V8's, Hemi's usually. They are in top fuel dragsters and make over 3,000 horse and can do the 1/4 mile in about 4 seconds at over 300 MPH.
    As far as Cooter's truck keeping up with the General Lee; it seems to me that most everything kept up with the General Lee. I can't think of any scenes offhand where they simply floored the General and left anyone in the dust. Those emissions-era bogged down 360's in the Chrysler B-body cop cars, the random 4 door sedan "Bad Guy's Car", Jesse's 300-6 powered Ford F100's, Daisy's 304 AMC (at best) Jeep, Cooter's various "tonners". Boss Hogg's 472(?) Cadillac -- all seemed to be able to keep up with the General Lee. I would say that it was because it is hard to make an interesting chase scene if the General just leaves everyone in the dust.
    About Daisy's car (the 1971's in particular); that was the same car as the General Lee for all intents and purposes. The 2nd generation Chargers and the 2nd Generation Road Runners didn't share any outer body panels but they had the same chassis (B-Body) and pretty much the same drivetrain options. They both could be had with a 426 Hemi; the '71 Runner could be had with a 440 6bbl and the '69 Charger could be had with a slightly less powerful 440 4bbl. The 383 was available in both of them but only a 2 bbl version for the '69 Charger and a higher performance 4 bbl version for the '71 Road Runner. Transmission and rearend options were the same on both cars.
    In 1972 we hit the start of the emissions-era (and no more Hemi) and by '74 it was in full swing. So while identical drivetrains could have been optioned on the '69 Charger and the '71 Road Runner; by '74 (like Daisy's original car was; from the first few episodes); all Mopars; even, all muscle cars, were mere shadows of their former selves. No "muscle car" from '74 could touch a '69 Charger R/T.
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    mopardan reacted to DixieDavenport in Cooter's Truck   
    Just an option here: Cooter was a genious!!!!!
    Bo was the driver. Luke a pretty fair mechnic. But COOTER was the mechanical genious!! In Repo man it refers to the wrecker as being suped up! IT was suped up and so wasa the General Lee but like yoou said it was a wreck trucka and heavier. Maybe too when Cooter keeps up with the they aren't running wide open.
    DixieDAVENPORT
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    mopardan reacted to JRC99 in Brodie's Camaro?   
    According to Jon Holland's Roads Back To Early Hazzard book, it was owned by a body man who worked on the show (in Georgia, at least) named James Cowart. Wonder what he did with it.
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    mopardan reacted to JRC99 in Brodie's Camaro?   
    Wonder where it ended up. It's certainly a great example of how they were done in the late 70s with the way it has Cragars, and the rear tires hang out past the quarters.
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    mopardan reacted to RogerDuke in Rare and Behind the Scenes Pictures of the Dukes of Hazzard   
    Hey there Tony! How have you been? I hope you're doing well. You're right about the cars. However there is a price to pay for everything. When thinking about the loss of those cars realize that they weren't the valuable classics back then that they are today. Nobody would make a show today if it meant destroying 300 Corvettes from the 1950s. Also consider what came from losing those Chargers. One of the most iconic televisions shows in human history brought joy to millions (dare I say a couple billion) people for years and here we are 40 years later and many of them are still finding happiness and many fans who haven't even been born will someday enjoy it. Sure, the glory days of Dukes are never coming back and fan numbers decrease with time (like all iconic shows do) but the Dukes will outlive us currrect fans in some form or another. For Charger fans it can be difficult to think about those cars but look at it this way. Their loss led a fellow Charger to climb to the top of the mountain as the most famous and recognizable car in history.....the General Lee. I doubt anything will ever replace it.
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    mopardan reacted to MonacoMan in Daisy's Cars   
    They still should have kept the Satellite for Daisy...the Jeep was too “dorky” for one of the Dukes (my opinion)! 
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