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Given that the premise of this thread was about playing Daisy in the 2005 movie, I'd have to say no as Kate was 13 years old when the movie came out. No one could ever replace Cathy. She managed to play Daisy as sexy, demure and smart - a tough act to pull off. Anyone else playing Daisy would need all of these qualities. I also think that the part should have gone to a relatively unknown actor, but the studio would never have gone for that in a blockbuster movie.

Although sometimes double sided discs are supposedly considered slightly better quality...they also are many times known for having playback problems—with freezing up or not wanting to load at all. I bought each of the DOH original double sided season DVD sets as they were released. Most play fine...however, I will be honest and say that I’ve had issues with the Season 3 set—specifically Disc 2 side B, and Disc 4. A few years ago I re-bought the same set off eBay, and it seemed to play fine. Then, eventually the same discs started having issues again?? I saw the complete series on DVD, with the one sided discs, for sale in Walmart the other day...I’m considering getting it just to have as a back up for my original sets. What I would absolutely love would be for the entire original series to be digitally remastered for a complete series Blu-ray set! But, sadly that probably won’t ever happen.

Thanks for sharing this Jim. It is really awesome and made me think......They did a lot of different things with the General in 7 years but never made a body out of glass. It would have been fun to watch it jump a creek.

Car number 2 is on the bench. This is going to be my "stunt" car, so it needs to handle jumps. This uses the RJ Speed body, which is oddly proportioned, which works to my benefit here because I can butcher a buggy with more suspension travel instead of using another touring car chassis. What I ended up with is the WLToys 124017 V2. You can see that the track width is close The track width is almost perfect, but the 228mm wheelbase is a far cry from the 274mm wheelbase that I want. So, to get the wheelbase I want, a custom chassis is in order. I started by adding tape to the bare chassis in order to trace it out and mark all of the necessary holes. I added a couple parallel lines to help me align the halves when I transfer them to cardboard. I added wings because I want the chassis to extend all the way out to the body. I can attach the body to it, plus it will look better jumping with the bottom closed up. I may decide to narrow this and replace the wings with something lighter later. Here's the cardboard all cut out. Cardboard was transferred to 1/8" aluminum and cut out. Next, I clamped the original chassis to the aluminum and transferred all of the holes that I'm using, then countersunk them. Lastly, I bent the ends of the chassis to line up with the front and rear diff housings. With the front and rear axle assemblies bolted up, it's starting to look like an RC car again. And it's really starting to look like something with the body set into place Now that the chassis is done, I need to focus on the center driveshaft. I disassembled it and decided that making a new one would be difficult. Getting the flat spots accurate and concentric would be difficult. It would also require getting the length perfect or packing in a bunch of shims to get front and rear gear mesh correct. I think an easier solution is to cut the center shaft and sleeve it. I can add the sleeve with the two halves installed in order to maintain correct gear mesh, and as long as the sleeve fits properly, the driveshaft should atay true.

Wikipedia gives a range of 255 to 325, the higher figure being attributed to Ben Jones. At the end of the day, no one knows. It's probably safe to say that the total number is around 300, or roughly two cars per episode.

Cousin Rog... It varies depending who you ask.

"AlakaZam, alakaZoo, alakaZeer..." (Rosco tries to make Boss reappear in 'Opening Night at the Boar's Nest')

Hoss, thanks for the info. I did plan to move the front side markers but it turned out that there was a slight indentation in the lexan that would have been visible with the decals gone, so I opted to leave them where they were. I had originally planned to mention that in the video, but as it approached 40 minutes in length, I started going back and trimming more and more out of it, including that.

The car, complete with 3D printed pieces, looks really good. For some reason the sound was about six seconds out of sync when I watched it, but it seems OK now that I've refreshed the page, so it was probably an issue at my end. Just one little criticism - the side markers on the front fenders are further forward and higher on a '69 Charger. BTW. I used to work in the sign industry many years ago, before the modern re-positionable vinyls were available. We used to make our own application spray with a dilution of a detergent called Brij. I don't know how easy it is to get hold of.

I just got the video for the Kyosho build posted. I hope y'all like it. https://youtu.be/L17vEDxZ6zU

Wow....I never even noticed that! I don't think mine are like that.

I noticed that one of the DVD reviews complained that the episodes were in the wrong order because Daisy's yellow car reappears after she gets the Jeep. They obviously didn't know that this was a studio continuity error from the start. Having said that, I do seem to recall that two of my DVDs are labeled incorrectly - disc 3 is actually disc 4 and vice versa.

That's a good picture, cop-Scott. I had to hold my laptop upside-down to see it, tho'. ( We're pretty easy to confuse. Occupational...uh, Hazzard.) Brian

AAAAAAHHH!!! Everywhere I look, Maxim's got another picture of that car. I dare ya to drive up to DukesFest in one of those. See what the General Lee car clubs think of it. Brian

you want me to do daisy huh? hmmmmmmm.... what man could resist? LOL I NEED PICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im gone. -Brad

Re: Maxim's photoshopped Charger. Orange paint and an "01" do not a General Lee make. ROFL.

AAAAAHHHHH!!!! That is an evil use of Photoshop, Maxim.

Heh heh! That woulda been another good "stump the moderators" question..."What's the name of The Dukes of Hazzard movie?" Uhhhh.... Fortunately, Fonzi saved me from bein' puzzled all night on this one. Brian

I think if people have a problem with the flag, then too fu*#ing bad. Almost everyone who is offended by the Confederate battle flag is uneducated on the whole subject anyway. Proof of this is, if you hung up the first National Flag(The Stars and Bars) those same people would say nothing, because they wouldnt even know what it was. They would probably assume it was an early United States flag or something. I really hate when people who have no knowledge or understanding of the Confederate flag and it's history have to run their mouths.

"Unfavorable" My A--.

no..no..no..for the love of god no.