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Johnny PAYCHECK

NATASHA - (Russian gymnast in "Comrade Duke")

Mount KISCO - (John Schneider's place of birth)

GAYLORD Duke Roger, the search box at the top of the page defaults to search only the current thread when you're within one. I've used it a couple of times for a quick check.

ALEX - (Boss' driver)

I've just found the piece I read about Bo's age in The Dukes of Hazzard: The Unofficial Companion. Here's the bit after John liked the script and wanted the part of Bo. "My agent told me, 'You're too young for it, and you're from New York, so we told them you were twenty-four years old and from here,'" Schneider recalled. "They were looking for people from the ages of twenty-four to thirty. I was eighteen, just graduated from high school. If they knew that, I would never have got an audition." I've also had a quick flick through Redneck Boy in the Promised Land, but Ben just describes the part he auditioned for as "the good ol' boy mechanic with a wild and crazy streak". There's no mention of age.

In an incomprehensible move, image hosting site Photobucket changed their terms about a month ago so that you could only use their service for 3rd party hosting if you upgraded to their premium account at $400/year. Overnight, they broke links to around a billion (yes, a billion) images across the internet, wiping out years worth of their users' content on blogs, forums and even eBay listings with no warning. Your choice? Pay $400 up front (no monthly options) for a service which has been free for over a decade, or lose your images. Some people have suggested that the new marketing model is based on the recent ransomware virus scams. My Photobucket images are safe until January because I'm a paying user, but I'm not paying a 1000% increase for renewal when rival sites offer the same (and probably more reliable) service for $40-$50/year. They finally sent me an email earlier this week trying to imply that I was a valued customer, and offering me a 50% discount so I could "beat the rush". The only rush has been all the users leaving a sinking ship. I have over 1800 images on HazzardNet (and over 8,000 on another site) which will disappear in a few months if Photobucket don't see sense or I don't find a replacement. Even if I do find an alternative, I'm going to have literally weeks if not months of work uploading my images to a new site and then editing several thousand posts to update the image links. I can't even back up my images at the moment - I guess everyone else is trying to do the same thing.

It's episode 6 of season 2.

I think I remember reading that when they were casting for the show, they were looking for someone around 25 to play Bo. Of course, John lied about his age (and background and driving skills).

Dr. Homer WILLIS

The Dukes in URBEKISTAN I never worked out why this animated episode used a made-up a place name only one letter different from a real country. Maybe the writers couldn't spell Uzbekistan.

Jerry RUSHING

Rider

I pointed out in a PM to Sonja that Ben was 38-44 while filming the show. Cooter had his own farm and his own business, and seemed to be a pretty experienced mechanic, so does around 40 sound right? It would be nice if we could nail down the main characters' ages, but it may prove difficult.

Francis 'Frankie' Lee OLMSTEAD

Even though left-hand-drive is the standard in Continental Europe, we get very few here (other than tourists). It tends to be only a handful of US and European cars of a certain age which were never made in right-hand-drive. Believe it or not, 2016 was the first generation Mustang available as right-hand-drive from the factory, although small companies in the UK used to convert them. In the UK there's a market for used cars imported from Japan (Nissan Skylines etc.), but Japan is also a right-hand-drive market. The main problem with vintage American cars in the UK and Ireland (other than their size and fuel consumption) is the lack or orange turn signals. There are some clever conversion kits which preserve the original look of the car, while other owners just wire in temporary lights to pass their annual test. I spoke to a General Lee replica owner at a US car show a couple of months ago, and when he took his car to be tested, the tester told him he couldn't test it because it didn't have headlights!

Well remembered, Roth. That was Wayne Duke down in Dorset (south-west England) back in 2014. I know I posted about it at the time, but you can read an update saying that the charges were dropped at www.dorsetecho.co.uk.

It looks like the British police have finally done what Boss and Rosco struggled with - they've caught the General Lee. The car in question was a replica which had broken down with gearbox trouble (I thought the General only got the vapors!). The police took the opportunity to make a couple of tweets, but admitted that the car was "fully road legal" and no offences had been committed. Full story at www.bbc.com.

Hard Luck JONES

H.H. HARKNESS - (is that enough Hs?)

Deputy Wilbur FUDGE

CATFISH Lee

John ZIMBRA - (the Special Investigator from "Carnival of Thrills")

Bernard FoX

The Dukes of VENICE - (animated episode)