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it's been a long time since I updated this thread, and a long time since I did any work to any vehicles in general, but I expect to resume some of my efforts soon, so I wanted to catch this thread up. A while back I built a TWS CJ7 Jeep RC kit. I made some minor modifications in that I printed a modified set of seats from the 69 Charger model that I printed the 69 Charger interior from. I did this because the TWS kit came with the later high-back style seats. The earlier CJ7s like they used in the show had the low back seats which looked very similar to the charger seats, so that was a good way to get the right style seats. Additionally, I was able to carefully cut out the doors on the lexan body and I hope to build some hinges so I can put them on when desired, but that's a project for another day. Because of the open jeep design, it was absolutely necessary to have a driver, and these options were very limited. There aren't any action figures that look anything like Daisy. I looked into some of the proper sized action figures available on Ebay but those seem to be aimed mostly at Cosplay people and perverts. They're expensive, anatomically accurate for pornstars, and the clothing all needs to be bought separately. Since my daughter is involved in this whole process, that approach was scrapped and I found this 3d printable option that I decided to go with. It doesn't really look like Daisy, but it's better than the scale pornstar option! Next step for the Jeep is a more correct wheel/tire package and the decals. I'm not terribly impressed with the decal set that I bought on Ebay, so I'll probably work up my own and have MCI print them for me. He's the one that I got the General decals from, and the one that printed the police decals that I designed. Hopefully soon I'll start my 3rd General Lee build.

And some of them even mention NASCAR!

That looks good!

Some random advice: 1. Take lessons from a local instructor. Learning guitar is hard. Having an instructor vastly improves your chances of success. 2. When you're learning chords, just hold the chord while you're watching tv. Strum it a little bit during commercials. At first when you pull your hand away, you have to carefully reposition your fingers. After a while you'll notice that your hand will snap back to that spot. Once it does that, you'll start to be able to just grab that chord without positioning your fingers. 3. Once you can grab the chord reliably, start working on a 2nd chord. Once you can grab 2 reliably, start switching between them 4. When you're actually practicing instead of just holding chords while watching Dukes reruns, focus on having good timing. That's a critically important skill. Go as slow as you need to. Whether you use a metronome, a youtube drum track or play along with the song, timing is everything. Even if you can only strum the chord once per beat, your timing is always your priority. 4a. Learn to tap your foot to the beat. Do it to every song on the radio when you're not practicing. Make it become 2nd nature, because you'll need it to keep good time, especially when you start getting to songs with stuff that's off the beat. 5. A bunch of old Waylon and Hag songs are only 2 chords. 6. This probably should have gone near the top, but take your guitar to a competent tech or luthier for a setup. Make sure he knows that you're a beginner and he should be able to set up the guitar with lighter strings and lower action. This will make it easier to play. Like I said above... learning is hard, and frankly, it's a lot harder when you start on acoustic. It's bigger, it's farther from your body, it's harder to see what you're doing, the strings are thicker and they're farther from the frets. Hope this helps.

Well I've got my shower and I'm watching S. 4, not 5. I'm watching " Nothing But The Truth".

Right now I'm on the computer and I'm watching the weather/news and then after the usual TV shows I watch I'll take a shower around 8 pm central and then .....It's the peak of DOHD!! I'll watch something off of S. 5 .

I'm celebrating DOHD early tonight ( I'll probably celebrate tomorrow too! ( My wife is off tomorrow and the next day, so I don't have to take her to work! Everybody needs to celebrate with the DOHD ( maybe get on here and tell everyone what you're watching?) AND celebrate with your favorite Libation!

oh yea.....I'm also trying to figure out how to rig the Moonshine Mauler this year, so it won't be beaten, like it was last year! I have to admit though, I didn't mind being beaten by Garrett. He's a good man! He won last year if you remember!! I'm feeling the effects....so....I may not be with you much longer....LOL!

STATE route 36 ran through town

Turk:"Grits an' Greens strike again!" 😀

I'm sure that's worth more than $.02, Jim. I don't make videos, but I watch a variety on YouTube and it all seems like good advice. As well as watching videos about making videos, you could also check out the first videos posted by popular YouTubers to see how they started out. If your hobby ever starts to make a bit of money, it might be a good idea to invest it in better equipment including a faster computer for editing and rendering. Whatever you do, don't be tempted to use AI as a shortcut. I've listened to too many laughable AI commentaries and seen some ridiculous AI animations (smoke rising from the masts of an old sailing boat etc.). Viewers prefer it real.

I don't do youtube as a hobby, but I have a couple channels as a way to document my other hobbies. I have one for my RC builds that I've shown here before, as well as one for my guitar related interests. That kind of brings me to my point... I'm not sure how you'd get into Youtube as a hobby unless you're using it as a mechanism to share something else that people will be interested in watching. Assuming that you have something that people are going to want to watch, your next steps are learning to talk to a camera in a way that is interesting and engaging, learning how to make videos look and sound as good as they can, learning video editing software, and learning photo editing software. All of those aspects influence the outcome of a video, and to be honest, not many people find all of them interesting, so it becomes necessary to slog through some crap that you may not really enjoy in order to accomplish the things you do enjoy. Here's a real high level $.02 summary of each of those areas: 1. Talking to the camera. 99% of what determines the popularity of a channel is the ability of the host to be interesting, entertaining, and charismatic. No matter what the subject is, it's how interesting the talking head is that determines how many repeat watchers you get. A video about the joys of watching paint dry that's hosted by an interesting, well spoken person that can connect with an audience will ultimately be much more popular than the most interesting topic imaginable if it's hosted by a monotonous person with no personality and poor public speaking skills. 2. How it looks: Your lighting and your background make or break how a video looks. Stand there with a nasty or boring background under a single ceiling light and it's going to look horrible. Find an interesting location that has some depth to it, some tasteful things in the background and some colorful accent lighting that brings color and interest to it, along with some foreground lighting for the host (a couple diffused light sources and a "hair" light to add contrast or mood) will make a huge difference. 3. Sound: talking into your cell phone's microphone sounds bad. An inexpensive lapel mic makes all the difference in adding a professional sound to your video. Background music or sound effects may be appropriate depending on the type of videos you do. 4. Video editing software: This can be a big one. There are basic editors even the one that comes with Windows that will get the job done if your videos are very basic, but if you're going to want something more professional, you'll need a good quality video editor and you'll need to put in the time necessary to learn at least the basic functions of that editor. I use DaVinci Resolve because it's very good and mostly because it's free. If it ever stops being free, I'll probably be sunk because there's not much else out there that's worth a damn unless you want to get into subscription services. 5. Photo editing is more or less the same story as video editing, except that it's generally a bit easier and not something you'll spend as much time in. At minimum you'll need it for your thumbnail images, but I also use edited photos occasionally within my videos. I use GIMP because it's a very powerful, open source video editor that does all I could ever need. You can research each of those areas via other youtube videos. There's a wealth of creator information out there, so each of those 5 topics are very well covered via youtube tutorials. But ultimately, unless you're doing something other than the usual "talking head" style videos, 99% of the effort is in area #1. Your personality and charm matters more than pretty much anything else.

Howdy y’all, so I just got gifted a nice acoustic guitar in great shape, music/guitar stand, books, picks, tuner gadget, etc I want to learn but I wonder if anyone here has any advice or experience on learning guitar. I would love to teach myself how to play Good Ol Boys or General Lee by Johnny Cash. Or Momma’s don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Let me know y’all!

Bo and Luke gave REDNECKS a better name!

That white stuff is called snow Hobie.

......and has a high QUANTITY of customers so makes them take a number.

We are soooooo close!!!!!!

I am so hoping the Bears will win! I am soooo nervous. LOL. Tho the weather is on their side and they've had a great year so all that is on their side. I am glad to have another fan supporting them. Tho I'm sorry about your Bills, Roger. Jeff Gordon's 49ers got sent home packing this weekend too. Maybe he'll be supporting my Bears now, too. HA. LET'S GO BEARS!!!!!

nah! They just ran into a better team! I'm for almost anybody playing against the Bills, because my fav. team is the Dolphins and they're in the same division!

If the Bears win tomorrow Garrett won't be writing about NASCAR. I hope they do. My second favorite team the Bills were robbed today so I'm a Bears fan the rest of the season.

The Boss Hogg is very mean. 😂 In The Dukes of Hazzard Racing For Home PlayStation 1 PC and Game Boy Color, he has Rosco arrest Bo and Luke after they save his life from the hijackers who hijacked his Cadillac and stole his money. He has Rosco arrest the boys after they rescue him and get the money back for him. He does this to try and stop them from driving in the Overland Race which is the next day. 😲 It doesn't work. Daisy Uncle Jesse and Cooter get the bail money and get them out. 😀

Getting close to 100 pages on Garrett's NASCAR thread!

legends

It's a card that comes out weekly and has the teams on it and you take your picks and turn it in to a Bookie and if you don't guess right you pay and if you do, you collect!

Pamela JEAN Bryant played Holly Mae in 'Granny Annie'.

Sorry to interrupt the football talk . . . I am still excited to be moving forward into the playoffs. It's been a long time since the Bears have made it this far. They play the Rams Sunday in cold weather. The Rams aren't conditioned for warm weather and play in a dome. The Bears will have the advantage there. . . But to bring it back to NASCAR for a bit. . . NASCAR has updated the Chase format for all three series for 2026 and ahead. Of what I understand that winning in the regular season won't lock you in as it has been the past few years. It's going back to more to the old Chase system. There will still be 16 drivers (in the top series). The driver with the most points at the end of the ten Chase races wins the championship. Here is an article with more information on the new Chase format: NASCAR returns to Chase format for 2026 | NASCAR Of what I have been seeing, the drivers seem to have a positive feedback on it. I personally feel like it's a step in the right direction. 32 more days until the Daytona 500!!!!

Thank you Roger. That was a disappointing first half and an exciting and stressful second half. What a come back! I am sorry about your Steelers. I thought of you when I saw that. I have a hard time going for them due to their current QB . . . he may no longer be on that other team (sorry...I can't say the name. ) but he has always annoyed me. I do hate for you and the fans and sad to see Tomlin stepping out. 19 years say a lot. And the fact they made it to the playoffs, he should still be proud. A lot of teams didn't make it that far. Well the other Chase must be a great guy. I am sorry to hear that he didn't do too well. I am hoping this will be Chase ELLIOT's year.

Right now, I'm watching TV and drinking a Twisted Tea variety 12pk. Right now I'm drinking The one that's Half and Half....half hard iced tea and half lemonade. They all have 5% ABV ( alcohol by volume). Hard Iced Tea is tea with whiskey.....don't know but I think it's Rum.....?? A little later, I might watch DOH if there's nothing on after 7pm Central. I usually watch our favorite show at night as I'm going to sleep. I will watch it earlier though if there's nothing on.

Thanks Bud!!

I'm not sure, I found these on a old hard drive

HAZZARD County is a nice place to live.

Anyone interested?

Enos Strate:"I'm Enos." 😂 Turk Adams:"Oh yeah. I know." 😂

Lt. Broggi:"Do you all know what that means?" Turk Adams:"Yes sir! It means yer gonna mix in some Spades with yer Spics an' Honkys sir!" 😂 Lt. Broggi:"I knew I could count on you Turk." 😂

Turk Adams (When he got partnered up with Enos Strate):"I knew that Lt. Broggi didn't like me. But not this bad." 😂

ooops! I forgot !!

GRADY byrd

YES! Happy late birthday!!

.......and a lugnut!

Very nice!

I'm sad. I found a Dukes of Hazzard Racing For Home Trivia Game online before and played it. But I forget how or where I found it. Now I can't find no more. It was questions about the TV series but started out with Boss Hogg from Racing For Home saying his line from Episode 1 Scene 1 of the game. "They're gettin' away!" Rosco replied with his line from scene of the "Khee khee khee Don't you worry chubby little buddy! I'll catch them Dukes. Keep yer gown down an' the pedal to the metal. Khee khee khee I'm gone." During the trivia game the siren is heard like they're chasing you. When the trivia game is over, when you complete the final question 3 more patrol cars show up blocking the road ahead of you. The little General Lee jumps them and the Dixie Horn plays, the little General Lee lands and drives away with the engine fading out as the little General Lee goes out of sight.

If I was on you tube it would probably go virus.

Just finished my The Dukes of Hazzard video games marathon. PlayStation 1 Racing For Home, PlayStation 1 Daisy Dukes It Out, and Game Boy Color Racing For Home.

I played this game on Tuff and Hard all while thinking to myself "Darn people on YouTube who posted the Tuff and Hard mode video game movies, I don't know how the heck you beat this game on those modes. Geez." 😂 Missions 12 and 13 had me wanting to throw my PlayStation 1 controller. 😂 Daisy Duke's Jeep Dixie is slow as a snail. 😂 That's why Rosco & Enos kept wrecking me making me fail. Too much car damage. Because the law improves their driving on Tuff and Hard modes.

Nitrous Oxide tanks. That was the secret. Whenever I ran them over, I would wait as long as possible to press the button that activates them. Help me win. Use them at the crucial point when absolutely necessary on Mission 12 and 13. Same on Mission 17. I watched the YouTube gameplay movies first though. I knew what those modes Tuff and Hard had in store for me before trying them out myself. Those players are better than me. They beat it on Tuff and on Hard with 0 fails, 0 arrests 0 too much car damage etc.

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Welcome to the HazzardNet Rafa. We are excited to have you here and look forward to hearing more from you!

Guys, I own a vintage belt buckle, same as the one Bo Duke had in the series. It's not a repop they did a few years ago but an original vintage one. Very hard to find but I decided it's time to let it go for someone else to enjoy. Not listed for sale anywhere yet so a real fan on here can get it. As it's rare and vintage it's not cheap but in great condition. Price is $175,- plus shipping. Still a decent price, they sell mostly between $250,- and $300,- as can be seen in the pic below. Who gets it?