Mark B / Scooter Davenport

Nonsense- keep it outside! Mark

Ha! I know what you mean about the 'follow through'- I've been wanted to do this since visiting Cooter's Place in Gatlinburg in the mid 90s. M

Forgive the cross-post, but I thought this was appropriate in the collectibles forum as well: http://www.hazzardnet.com/forums/showthread.php?p=197700&posted=1#post197700

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As a side-bar to my 1/25 Cooter's garage model, I put together this little display for the 1/64 DOH diecast cars. Its all a cardstock model with the exception of the landscaping. Still a work in progress- I'll continue to add some details and tweak things. -Mark

That 'apartment' space appears again in 'Play it Again Luke', but it arranged a little differently and matches the exterior of the garage better this time. I believe that both appearances are seperate sets not actually inside the garage set. Also- just reviewed all of season 7. The season starts with 'Happy Birthday General Lee' where they make the exterior of Cooters' look years younger by dressing it up with white trim and some dectorative wood details (for Boss to step on whilst hanging on the drain pipe). For the entire rest of the season, the garage is used VERY little; just a few shots right in front where little of the building is in view and not shots inside. When you do see the building, those 'younger' details adn paintjob are still there! The only exception is when they use stock shots of Hazzard Square from previous season- then the building is back to its old dirtier self. Its sad (to me at least!) that this pivotal setting was pretty much ignored in the last year of the series. Mark

What I find interesting is you can hardly tell those barn doors are there when its dressed as the back of Cooters. I'm also surprised the allowed the top of the barn in frame when they were trying to portray this building as the back of the Garage- its not even close to the same type of building siding, etc. The only logical (in-story, not real life backlot) explanation to me is that this is a seperate barn building behind the main garage building; perhaps they are even connected. M

Yes, you have permission to go to bed now- the sun will be up there in just a few hours!! Boy that would be great!! I guess you know what I'm looking for; whatever would help me draw and build the inside of the garage, etc.!! Mark

That is great!! I can't wait to see that- I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what would be on the second floor, where the stairs would be, etc. Does anyone have the ability to do screen caps from that episode? I don't have that season of DVDs yet. Mark

OK, here are some pics of the beginning of the project: More to come! M

Thanks Brian- I've started a new thread for The Hazzard Garage project so as hijack HossC's thread! : http://www.hazzardnet.com/forums/showthread.php?p=197301#post197301 Mark

I forgot to add- if anyone has any observations or details about this building, feel free to throw it in- consider this a research thread on anything having to do with with The Hazzard Garage- even info from dialog such as the address*. Mark * In "Huey Hogg Strikes Again", 100 Hazzard Square was mentioned as the address of the condos Boss was going to build on the site of Cooter's Garage. Not sure if that means this is the address of the garage.

Yes, I already grabbed your Hoggco signs- thanks for saving me that effort!! I use mostly CorelDraw- just about everything I do is vector, and I haven't found a better program for my tastes. M

I'm started down the road of a project I've had in the back of my head for some time. My goal had been to recreate one of the iconic buildings of Hazzard to serve as a showcase for the 1/25 scale MPC DOH car kits. I quickly gravitated to Cooter's garage- for me, it has the most character and recognizability. Following in the footsteps of HossC, I've been rearching the building inside and out. Unlike some of the facade buildings on the Warner backlot, this one actually has a practical interior- when you see scenes inside the garage, they really are inside the garage building just off Hazzard Square. However, the building inside wasn't completely built-out for being seen on screen. The first floor was pretty much complete with the exception of the 'office' room (so far I haven't seen any episodes showing the inside). The second and third floors appear to be largely one big empty space- typical of a Hollywood backlot set. Here is my floorplan so far: I'll be sharing images of my build soon too! Mark

HossC, you are a man after my own heart! I've had a similar obsession with the backlot buildings at Universal for the past 25 years or so- I've built models, collected blueprints, etc. and I could tell you way more than you'd ever want to know about sets from the Munsters, Leave it to Beaver, and many other shows shot on the backlot. Anyway- on to Hazzard: I started researching the Warner DOH sets very casually last year, and just found your threads recently here. I began the research out of a desire to do some sort of model from DOH in scale with the 1/25 MPC kits. I was partially inspired by the model of the Duke farm on display at Cooter's in Gatlinburg, TN (visited there several times in the last couple years). I quickly gravitated to the Hazzard Garage set and have been concentrating my 'note taking' on that building ever since. My goal is to recreate the garage building inside and out in 1/25 scale, right down to the individual signs, etc. I feel like Cooter's garage probably has the most character of any of the buildings in Hazzard Square, both in its architecture and how its used in the show. I've started building aready- I'll post pics when my full posting privilages are in place. I may eventually even build Rhubottoms next door... Hopefully I can also contribute to your 'Buildings of Hazzard' thread when my drawings are of sufficient detail. Mark

Howdy from Orlando, Florida! Just joined- well actually, signed up over a year ago, but haven't posted until now. This time of year always makes me think Dukes- perhaps because for the last few years we find ourselves in Galinburg, TN and I always stop by Cooter's while we are there! Mark