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Good question, Roth. There was no information about the car at the event, and no one to ask. I haven't seen many modern F1 cars close-up, and the supplying company's website is still under construction. If I remember, I'll check their site again in the future to see whether it's genuine or a replica. The Hesketh is definitely the real thing.

This Rolls Royce was for sale, although I didn't see a price. I think there were four of these Goldwing trikes. This one came complete with a trailer. The red and white tape was just to stop people sitting on it. I was surprised to see this McLaren Formula 1 car displayed under a Red Bull tent. It's one of Lewis Hamilton's cars from a few years ago. The Minis in the background were doing a handling display of reversing, handbrake turns and donuts. I'll finish with another Formula 1 car. This is a race-winning Hesketh from the mid-70s. It's driven here by Freddie Hunt, son of the late Formula 1 World Champion James Hunt who originally drove it. Anyone who's seen Ron Howard's 2013 movie 'Rush' will know the James Hunt/Niki Lauda story.

Another Summer weekend, another car show. This one was billed as a 'Festival of Speed', no doubt because of the well-established and popular 'Goodwood Festival of Speed' which took place in England a couple of weeks ago (I'll have to go to that one year). The first thing I looked at was a display of old and new rally cars. The one below is a Metro 6R4, one of the banned Group B rally cars from the mid-80s. Most of the rally cars took to the track to do a few circuits. As I was photographing the rally cars, a line of Ferraris turned up. They included a 355, a Testarossa, a Dino and a Mondial. There were also two 308 GTSs, so I briefly got to play Magnum P.I. when one of the owners let me sit in the driver's seat. I think that this was the only American car at the show. I originally saw this Ford Galaxie back in April at the show I posted about above, which is when I took this picture. It has now acquired a new sticker on the hood. Gun ownership is generally illegal here, so it's quite safe to display the Confederate flag!

Welcome to HNet, Heather. You're right, we're not a bad bunch .

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Thanks for your reply, Mufn. I'm sure Firefox has updated in the last month (I'm currently on version 38.0.5), but HNet is the only site where I've seen this right-click behavior. Other forums, and sites like eBay and Amazon, still give me the old style menu.

Welcome to HNet, Ktulu.

Thanks, Roth. In Firefox the background goes dark and I get a pop-up window like this: I've just tried Chrome, IE and Opera, and they all give a right-click menu similar to the one I used to get.

I probably won't get a chance to check for broken links until the weekend, but it's good to have the "01" icon back on the tab . I've discovered something about this forum software that bugs me, and it's the way it handles right-clicks on images. I used to get a menu like this when I right-clicked an image (using Firefox): Mostly it was just to get the image location for another post. Now if you right-click an image you get a pop-up window containing the image with an option to save it. I know some forums disable right-clicking in a pointless attempt to protect images and text (there are always ways around these obstacles!), but the behavior of this software is just annoying. Is version 4 the same, Mufn?

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Roger, while I agree that attention needs to be given to why this young man felt the need to go on a shooting rampage, over here it's very unlikely he would have had any access to firearms. I'm not saying we don't have guns and shootings over here, but they're in much smaller numbers, and guns are not generally owned by civilians (other than farmers). Take a look at Wikipedia's list of countries by firearm-related death rate - the USA has an annual firearm-related death rate of 10.64 people per 100,000. Ireland isn't on the list, but the rate in the UK is 0.25 people per 100,000 (i.e. the rate in the USA is over 40 times higher per captita). For anyone who's interested, the USA are currently 13th in the list behind Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador, Jamaica, Swaziland, Guatemala, Colombia, South Africa, Brazil, Panama, Uruguay and Mexico. The USA does lead the number of guns per capita by country with 88.8 guns owned per 100 residents. By contrast, the UK is in 82nd place with 6.6, and Ireland is down in 106th place with 4.3. From a 2013 article on usatoday.com, "Gunshot wounds and deaths cost Americans at least $12 billion a year in court proceedings, insurance costs and hospitalizations paid for by government health programs, according to a recent study." Here in Ireland, the letters NRA stand for the National Roads Authority!

Nine people are shot dead in a church, and rather than rethinking gun laws, it's a flag that gets the blame. Meanwhile, the NAACP, long-time opponents of the Confederate flag, seem to be having trouble determining whether their leaders are black or white. As an outsider, it all makes perfect sense.

HazzardNet

The Drag 'N' Fly contest was in 'Goodbye, General Lee' in season 4. Here's a poster for the event that Roger mentioned: And here's my version of the banner from the Fan Art section.

I know we're spoiled over here having a few commercial-free channels, but I find it increasingly amazing that US viewers put up with so many commercials. Even on our commercial stations, a half-hour show only usually has a single break, and it's obvious with some US shows that at least two other breaks have been omitted. If I compare half-hour comedies, ones made by the (commercial-free) BBC are generally around 29 minutes long, although some have been known to go over 30 minutes in the past (just like some full episodes of Top Gear are 61 or 62 minutes long). UK/Irish sitcoms on commercial TV tend to be around 24 and a half minutes, which is about where US shows were at in the 1970s (I'm using my M*A*S*H DVDs as an example). The latest season of The Big Bang Theory had several episodes that were around 19 and a half minutes long including opening and closing credits. I guess that's what happens when five of the stars demand $1 million per episode (which, based on the quality of the last season, seems like pretty poor value for money). The same appears to be true with sporting events. With NASCAR races it feels like the race coverage and commercials get about equal time, and when UK stations take US feeds of sports like golf, they tend to skip every other commercial break by going back to the studio for additional comment. Getting back to TVLand, stretching each Dukes episode to 70 minutes means that roughly a third of the time is commercials. Much as I'd like to see Dukes back on TV over here, I wouldn't watch them if they were either cut to pieces or over an hour long.

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Seeing as this thread has been revived, I thought I'd refresh my original artwork. I was never happy with the shade of yellow I ended up with, and the wheels are wrong. This is only a light makeover - I've removed the black outlines, removed the chrome from the wheel arches, and added the chrome panel under the door. The bumpers and side markers have been completely re-done and I'm now happier with the wheels and body color. I might refresh the front and back views in the future. There are a few General Grant pictures online, with various numbers on their doors. I've stuck with "76" like the car in the video posted by Roth.

Near the end of the movie there's a great panning shot across the backlot, showing the relative position of Western Street to Midwest Street (aka. Hazzard Square). Some of these "real" buildings don't have much more structure than the fake town in the movie. The Mexican street was probably still standing just out-of-shot to the right. Just to the left we get a better view of the church and Midwest Street. In the lower left corner is the building which was used as Morgan's Glueworks in 'The Revenge of Hughie Hogg'. Above that is the back of Boss' house. After Western Street was demolished, a new façade was added at the rear so that the house could be filmed from both sides (as seen in the Dukes 'Reunion' movie). Above Boss' house is the courthouse/police building. Continuing left, we can see the famous Warner Bros. water tower and the sound stages. The cast later run out of the studio onto West Olive Avenue. This is the entrance that appeared in 'The Dukes in Hollywood'.

This is the other end of Western Street which appeared as Shoveltown in 'The Hack of Hazzard'. The man in the black hat above the "L" of "WELCOME" is John Hillerman, probably best known as Higgins in 'Magnum, P.I.'. The building on the left appeared in several episodes, sometimes as the back of Cooter's Garage, even though it's nowhere near the front! The DVD also includes the pilot for a proposed spin-off series called 'Black Bart' (which was one of the working titles for 'Blazing Saddles'). It also made use of the buildings of Western Street. This part of Western Street featured in 'Mason Dixon's Girls'. The buildings on the right are the ones from the picture above. This man may look familiar to Dukes fans. Burton Gilliam played Lyle in 'Blazing Saddles', but he was Tom Colt in 'Double Sting' (he was the guy with poison ivy who got the jail quarantined), and Heep in 'The Sound of Music - Hazzard Style'.

I recently added the 1974 Mel Brooks movie 'Blazing Saddles' to my DVD collection, and spotted some familiar locations. Although IMDb lists Laramie Street among the filming locations, most of the town scenes take place in Western Street. I've posted pictures of Western Street before, but seeing as it demolished many years ago, I thought I'd add some more. Besides, these images show it looking very neat and tidy. Here are a few stores from the right side of the street. I like the "1 Flavor" sign. And here's the far end of the street. This is the back of the Hazzard Square church. By the time Dukes was made, this side had been turned into a loading dock.

Another problem I've just come across is that some videos posted before the update are only displaying as a URL rather than an embedded, watchable video (or even a link).

It looks like I've missed more 'Wheeler Dealers' than I thought. They now have a workshop in Huntington Beach, and do half their filming there with the other half in the UK. As far as I can see, it's still presented by Mike Brewer and Edd China. I saw Edd at a car show a few years ago. Mike was away from the stage at the time and I never got to see him. Bernie and Mario did 'Classic Car Rescue', which I watched a few episodes of, but didn't really like. Bernie also did 'Chop Shop: London Garage' with Bangladeshi automotive engineer designer Leepu. They came up with some unique creations on that show, but there was too much exaggerated friction between the two guys.

I used to watch Wheeler Dealers, but haven't been keeping up lately. They seem to be including more American cars these days.

Thanks for letting me know about the show, Roth. I hadn't heard of it before. I can't believe they felt the need to explain the difference between Chile and chili - does no one in the US know about South America? When they said they had to "darn the frame", it was just a joke. You can darn a sock to repair a hole in it, and because the frame had lots of holes in it, they joked that they would have to darn the frame. In reality, I think they just replaced the rusty frame with the spare parts that the owner had collected. In case you missed it, there was a car show on UK TV recently that you might like. It was the second season of 'For The Love of Cars'. In the first season they fixed up classic cars and auctioned them off in the final episode (some fetching world record prices). They did the same in the first episode of the second season with an Aston Martin DBS, but after that they fixed up cars for people who'd had to stop projects due to illness or changes in circumstances. The cars were auctioned at the end of each show, and the money given to the owners. The cars from the first season were: Ford Escort Mark 1 Mexico, Land Rover Series 1, Triumph Stag, Mini Cooper Mk 1, MG TC and DeLorean DMC12. The cars from the second season were: Aston Martin DBS, Rover SD1 Police Car, Volkswagen Golf GTi Mk1, Fiat 500 L, Saab 96, Ford Transit Mk1 and 1958 Volkswagen Beetle.

I've just noticed a major problem that's occurred since the forum migration. All the links which reference other posts/threads within HazzardNet now dump you back at the forum homepage. I've only tried about half a dozen links, but they all did the same thing. Has anyone else noticed this?