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The Dukes (and Dukes fans) are sometimes down, but never out!!

Stuffed myself today. Good thing I've lost nearly 8 pounds in the last month cuz I'm pretty sure I put it back on today. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

OOOooooo that should be an interesting and fun race to watch! Hopefully no one gets hurt!

YOU are SO right Ma'am!!

I'm glad you're back! You'll surely be here in the spring for The Moonshine 400! ( It's the craziest road race in Hazzard! They only go 400 laps, not 500, because nobody can stay sober long enough to finish! ( What do you expect Hobie the town drunk + a race called the MOONSHINE 400? You know they're asking for it! LOL! )

yes it's good to see you again....feels like the Good ol' days now!!

Doh! I wonder what happened to you. LOL. I didn't realize how bad or complicated this login thing was. I made the switch over to https YEARS ago, so I'm baffled as to why the login issues just started in the past year. So weird. Glad it's all sorted now though. Welcome back!

But I thought you were a big racing fan. You are right though, it's not that fun. Unless you are only a spectator....then it's a blast.

Sorry to say, Roger, but that doesn't sound too fun. HA!

sorry...I tried to capture an image and messed it all up! .........( Bar Tender!! pour me another!!!!)

oh definitely! Of course my close Hazzardite friends will get in free!

It is definitely more fun than the Buttermilk 4.00 where you have to chug a quart of buttermilk and run around the barn 4 times without barfing. Nobody has made it all 4 laps yet but whoever gets the farthest wins. Hobie won it last year with a personal best of 2.75 laps.

well my weight is almost as bad as it was.....!! BUT....I AM a millionaire!

That was the best when they came back! You are too kind!

It does sound fun...:)

Thinking the same thing. It really reminds me of how good it felt when Bo and Luke came home.

Hobie's feelings get hurt when I beat him every year but other than that it's a lot of fun.

So true!

Yes it does! Was thinking the same thing yesterday.

I recently bought BeamNG.drive and have been playing around with it. I found out they have a General Lee mod. There's no Charger in the game, so it's basically just General Lee livery on a somewhat similar car body. Crashing is extremely fun in the game because of physics. So, I figured maybe Rosco would take the General Lee out for a little run. I recorded it and made a short video of it. Added a few sound clips from the show at the end too. I hope you enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsLKta98Svo

Awww thank you Roger. I've missed all of you and it's great to be back. *HUGS*

Thank you Roger. It's great to be back.

Thank you Meadomufn. It was kinda frustrating...I tried signing up as a new member and even that didn't work out. I was excited when I saw this thread this afternoon and went and checked it out and it worked! It's worth the wait. I am glad you got it figured out...thank you for not giving up! Thanks again.

I don't have any NASCAR news...y'all seem to have it covered. I was going to stop by with some, but have been having a hard time logging back in until now. I guess that's what I get for being gone for so long. If life wasn't so busy and I didn't have to work and everything else...I'd have time for Dukes and the computer. Just thought I'd send out a hello to everyone. I'm still here. Just busy. Especially now that I am going back to school and taking online college classes for work...and before then I didn't have a computer so that made coming on here difficult as well. So...howdy y'all. There is just 90 days, 5 hours, and 25 minutes until the Daytona 500. Not that I am counting or anything...GO CHASE ELLIOTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay I've finally able to log in! Too bad NASCAR is over now. HA!

I'm playing around with some of the settings and did some pretty hilarious stuff tonight. Hopefully, I'll have a few more videos out this week. Depends on how much time I have.

Awe Roger. You just made my entire year! Thank you.

Well, it turned out to be a 0-0 draw. England now have to play their neighbors, Wales, while the USA play Iran.

Score prediction: USA 3 and England 1 (that's one, not won)

Talking of 'Any goals in 2022?', the USA play England in the World Cup tomorrow night. It's now 56 years since England won the World Cup (we may mention it occasionally ), but we never stop believing!

You can take all of that money out of Boss's bank and use it to make the Moonshine 400 a national event. I bet you'll be profitable after the first race.

Y'all accomplish your 2022 goals? I didn't...so time to start thinking of how to make better goals for 2023. Or at least find ways to reach part of my goals. HA!

Um...we need a Christmas 2022 list. LOL. Just over a month away...

Lately free time has been at a massive premium, especially since deer season started, so progress has been minimal. I haven't had time to work on the 3d printed police car at all, but I have made some minor progress on the RJ Speed General Lee, specifically the body mounts on the WL Toys chassis. Here's a shot of the chassis with all of the electronics reinstalled and the front & rear body mounts fabricated: Here's an up-close of the front & rear mounts, both of which were made the same way: The mounts are both made from 1/16" Kydex sheets. In the past I've always worked with 1/8" Kydex, which is extremely durable and rigid, but heavy. Because this car already weighs more than a real Dodge Charger because of the massive aluminum chassis, I really need to cut weight wherever I can or that 390 sized motor won't stand a chance of surviving for long. The problem with such thin material is that it's not very rigid, so I had to do more than just a right angle bend like I would have done with the thicker stuff. To make these stronger, I had to cut the "wings" on the sides and bend them over and tie them together with screws. Hopefully that's more clear in the underside pics: Here is the body set onto the chassis with the new mounts: One of the issues that I've run into is that the body doesn't sit as low as I had hoped, so I need to rethink my attachment ideas. Originally I was just going to go with the standard body post method, since that's the easiest, and it would make it more like the Kyosho "hero" car that this will be standing in for during jump scenes. I could bend the kydex down more and still fit the body posts, but the body sits right where it should as-is, so I think that instead of fooling with the body posts, I'm going to just go with velcro mounts and call it a day. From the beginning, the plan has been to add a lip to the bottom of the chassis to attach the bottom of the body to the chassis with velcro anyway, so what's a little more on the top? Here's a close up of the mounts through the body: The next step is to trim back the mounts, as I don't need them to extend as far from the shock towers. After that, I need to locate and cut out the wheel well openings, and then the 3d design & print work starts for the body. I'm trying to accomplish as much of the "in the garage" work as I can before it gets stupid cold, because I'd rather sit inside in front of the computer during that period. This means that I also need to make some real progress on the police body soon, or I'm going to have to spend a fortune on propane to heat the garage every time I go out there to work on it.

So cool. Thanks for sharing it. I wasn't bothered by the inaccuracies in the General Lee but I am bothered that no creeks were jumped...LOL

So good to have you back. Today is a great day! Plenty of things happen in the off-season and we know you will keep us informed.

CHASE ELLIOTT!!!!!!!!!

So good to hear from you. I have missed you a lot. We all have. This is a great early Christmas present! *hugs*

I'm pretty sure I got all the DOH games that came out around that time. Never really got into them and I like driving games.

The games of Dukes of Hazzard aren't very good, except for the Xbox/PS2 one. Burnout Paradise featured a car that sort of looked like the General Lee, the game has lots of fun jumps/stunts, but it's not a DoH game if that's what you wanted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5GI2ReKk8

That was funny/cute.

It happens in some movies. If you look at the cast and crew of 'The Godfather', over half of the actors (mostly the ones without named parts) are uncredited. Paul Baxley was also uncredited as second unit director on 'The Godfather'. As you go down the crew list, most of the second unit, the art department, the sound department, the stunts, the camera and electrical department, the editorial department, the musical department, etc., etc. all go uncredited.

Yes you should look at buying them. The games are on eBay.

I've never looked into it before, so it's news to me. According to his IMDb page, his role as stunt coordinator on 'The Godfather' was uncredited. He was also stunt coordinator on other movies I like such as 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World', 'Coogan's Bluff' and 'Diamonds Are Forever'. I guess I can dig it, man!

Cuzin Philip Duke... Christmas Cars?

boxer (I remember an episode of Fat Albert where he said his dad was a professional boxer. Later they showed him in a factory putting stuff in boxes. I miss those old cartoons)

I punched my information in again because I wanted a second opinion after they told me I wrote like Larry the Cable Guy. This time I answered most of the questions truthfully and it came back that I write like Garrett Duke. Now I ask you good folks of the HazzardNet.....Is my writing really that bad?

Hey ya all, please read and review. Post your comments in the feedback for Welcome to our Family, Betsyrae forum please, and not here. Also, bold wiriting in this story is the balladere. This is my first try at doing fanfiction, so please nice when you review. Thanks Welcome folks, the sun is shinnin' and the birds is singin', it looks peaceful , don't it? Nothing could go wrong here......If ya believe that.... well....then you've never been to Hazzard. Here comes the Duke boys, and from the looks of the way they're drivin' , it could only mean ooonne thing.........Yep! that's what I figured, Rosco's hot on their tales. "Come on Bo, are ya gonna let him catch us? Or are you gonna move this thing?" "I'll lose him cuz, ain't no way he can catch us in the General. You know that!" "I can't tell by the way your drivin'. " "Oh, and I suppose you think you could do better?" "At the moment, Maudine the mule could do better!" "Oh, real funny, Luke."

I stuffed myself the past few days lol. Work had a potluck on Wednesday and then had two thanksgiving dinners yesterday. Definitely feeling it today, probably skip breakfast this morning. I'll definitely never forget this Thanksgiving. I'm 43 years old and people trying to dictate how I'm going to live my life like I have no choice. We're still in shock after being blindsided yesterday. We never agreed to it or even had any input yet apparently the decision has been made and my family thinks it's a done deal . I don't know how the heck the discussion from last week that my dad's house needs renovated to bring it up to live-able code automatically turned into we're moving in and and taking care of him. I and my wife never agreed to that. In my opinion the house should be sold as is and my dad should move into an apartment or senior assisted apartment. It's probably going to cost $20-30,000 just to bring it up to current home code regulations and fix the things that he let go when he was in good health.

I don't remember, it was so long ago.