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That 'shine doesn't seem to affect your memory, Hobie. Here's Boss and his sandwich in 'The Law and Jesse Duke' (the episode with Alabama Jones).

Thanks for the link, swinks. Roth also posted a link to this video in a post in 'The HazzardNet Garage' section of the forum last year, but I'm not sure how many people venture that far down . The post has links to a couple of other videos from the series, including at least one more with the Charger.

Sumo (I recall a famous sumo wrestler from some years ago who had the nickname 'Dump Truck' due to his size)

Dark To illustrate the point, here's a sign from the Anglo-Irish sitcom 'Father Ted'. BTW, the exterior shots of the Batcave in the 60s series were filmed in Bronson Canyon in Griffith Park, not far from the Hollywood sign. I was reading about the canyon just a few days ago, and found claims that Dukes episode 'Hazzard Connection' was also filmed there. I'll have to watch it again to work out exact locations.

mask (I seem to remember that the Phantom wore a mask)

ice cream (Wall's make ice cream products in the UK. It's the same company that trades as HB here in Ireland, Hertog in the Netherlands, and Good Humor in the US)

It's probably not what you want to hear, but nearly all the text in my fan art projects is done from scratch. The "01" looks similar to various 'college' style fonts, but since it's all straight lines, it doesn't take long to draw. From memory, I think I based the "General Lee" text on a screengrab from 'Diamonds in the Rough'. When the boys get the Bugs Bunny doll out of the tree you get a good overhead view. This was my second attempt at the General - my first try, and several weird and wild variations can be found in my General Lee Artwork thread. It's all vector artwork.

They could be driven with a motorcycle license, so you didn't need to have a full car license. It gets mentioned in the Top Gear video that they popular with miners (mainly in the north of England) who used a motorbike to get to work in the summer, but had one of these to keep a bit warmer in the winter. The fiberglass body meant that they were quite light and didn't get stuck in the snow like larger vehicles. The van variant, known as the Reliant Regal, was used a lot in 'Only Fools and Horses', one of the most popular British sitcoms of the 80s and 90s. I'm pretty sure I've posted this video before in another thread, but the 'Only Fools and Horses' van even gets involved in a brief chase. The opening jump is small compared to those of the General Lee, but I'm impressed they got it off the ground. Fans of the show can even hire this car/trailer combination for their funeral. The business is appropriately called 'Only Fools and Hearses' .

This sale was only really viable for people in the UK, but kevmullet sold his car yesterday for £820 (nearly $1300). For anyone not familiar with this quirky British vehicle, here's a picture of kevmullet's Reliant Robin. Yes - it's a three-wheeler! Production ran from 1973 to 2002, but Top Gear waited until a few years ago to do a "test drive". They weren't the most stable cars in the world, but they didn't roll this easily either. One of the comments for this video says "Why is dis car not in GTA 5?" Reliant Robins could also be used for a very cheap form of motorsport.

"Two Legs That Are Worth Three Billion" - sounds like a slight exaggeration. Cathy's legs are usually said to have been insured for $1,000,000, but that would only come out at between roughly 0.8 and 2 billion Lira during the original run of the series. Still, it makes a good headline! Maybe Ila can read some of the rest and give us a translation . I remember the scene, but can't immediately think of the episode. I'm assuming that Jimmie jumped from the ladder and bounced onto the airbag. It looks like quite a simple stunt, but I imagine there'd be a lot more paperwork nowadays.

Welcome to HNet, swinks. The only pinball machine I remember in Dukes was the one in the Boar's Nest (it's briefly mentioned in the Interior layout of the Boar's Nest thread). I'm sure you know this already, but some Googling has identified it as a Jungle cabinet (Gottlieb, 1972) with a Sheriff backglass (Gottlieb, 1971).

Beijing (Their Olympic stadium was known as the Bird's Nest)

I've never thought of Daisy Duke and ex-Pussycat Doll/X Factor UK judge Nicole Scherzinger as lookalikes, but Nicole's current brunette curls aren't a million miles away from Cathy's hairstyles. Here's a better view of Nicole with Lewis Hamilton after yesterday's race. Lewis Hamilton wasn't the only British motorsport champion this year. Just like NASCAR has the Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series below the Sprint Cup Series, Formula 1 also has feeder classes. GP2 has been running since 2005, and was won this year by Jolyon Palmer, who is the son of former F1 driver and major UK race circuit owner Jonathan Palmer. The first two years' champions were Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, and many other drivers have made their way into F1 from GP2. The winner of this year's GP3 championship, Alex Lynn, is also British. This series has only been running since 2010, but three of the previous four winners were driving F1 cars this year. Congratulations to Lewis, Jolyon and Alex. I hope to see Jolyon and Alex move up to F1 in the future.

Here's something a bit different. In conjunction with one of their sponsors, the Lotus F1 team were involved in setting a world record for a truck and trailer jump. To make things a little more tricky, an F1 car drives under the truck while it's in the air. There's a longer version of the video above and behind-the-scenes footage on www.emc.com.

Lewis Hamilton went into the final race with a 17 point lead over his teammate and championship rival Nico Rosberg. F1 tried the gimmick of double points for the last race this year, so even if Rosberg won the race, Hamilton could still be champion by finishing second. Hamilton looked quickest in practice and early qualifying, but in the final session he could only claim second on the grid behind Rosberg (Rosberg has had most poles this year). When the lights went out, Hamilton had a great start, while Rosberg was a little slow getting away. They continued to run first and second until just before half distance when Rosberg's hybrid electrical system failed, depriving him of around 160 horsepower during acceleration. From then on, Rosberg was a sitting duck for the other drivers. Hamilton controlled the race from the front, and won, despite second place Felipe Massa catching towards the end. I think everyone (including the drivers) would have preferred a wheel to wheel fight, but in the end, the right person won. Hamilton won 11 of the 19 races this year, and had to retire from three of the other eight due to mechanical failures. He now becomes the fourth British driver to win more than one World Championship. Lewis Hamilton finds a Union Jack for his drive back to the pits. On the way, he's congratulated on his radio by Prince Harry, seen here sharing a joke in the pits with ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell (who's dating Red Bull team boss Christian Horner). Hamilton gets a kiss from his girlfriend, Nicole Scherzinger, who flew in this morning with Hamilton's father, stepmother and brother as a surprise. In the last picture Hamilton is looking happy with his friend Pharrell Williams. The flag Hamilton acquired had the words "Hammer Time" across the middle. This year, his race engineer became known for using the phrase "Okay Lewis, it's hammer time." on the radio to tell him to push hard before a pit stop. Lewis Hamilton in the center, with second and third placed Williams drivers Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas on either side. The man in the white shirt and black pants is Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff. The 2014 Formula 1 World Champion, Lewis Hamilton.

For some reason NASCAR waited until Thursday to hand out the punishments to Ricky Stenhouse Jr's team (thanks to Garrett for letting me know). Ricky gets to keep his points from Homestead, but his crew chief, Mike Kelley, has been fined $50,000 and placed on NASCAR probation for six months starting Jan. 1, 2015. Ricky's car chief, Patrick Magee, has also been placed on NASCAR probation for six months. The infringement was apparently that "The Stenhouse team violated the rule that dictates that mounting hardware must not allow movement or realignment of any suspension/drive line component beyond normal rotation or suspension/drive line travel." - I hope that's clear! Considering some of the other punishments handed out this year, these seem quite harsh given that the offending parts were confiscated before qualifying, so played no part in the outcome of the race. For comparison, the Red Bull F1 team were penalized after yesterday's qualifying for today's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. A post-qualifying inspection determined that their front wings were too flexible (they perform a deflection test), and their qualifying times were deleted. As a punishment, both have been sent to the back of the grid, although they're likely to start from the pit lane (F1 has a standing start) as this lets the team make changes to the cars. I haven't read anything about fines or probation, and the whole situation is dealt with before the race.

Hi jaymzbo. I belatedly answered the question you posed in another thread. As I said in that post, sometimes first posts can get missed by the time they're moderated, and I've only just seen this one. Welcome to HNet, and feel free to ask any more questions you have - you'll find that many have already been answered .

Jeff Gordon's crew chief, Alan Gustafson, has taken the blame for the late pit stop which resulted in Gordon finishing 10th at Miami Homestead. You can read the full story here. Tuesday has come and gone, and I'm hoping that no news is good news in relation to Ricky Stenhouse Jr's confiscated suspension parts. I wish NASCAR would deal with pre-race incidents with grid penalties or fines rather than leaving them hanging over until a couple of days later. Assuming his Homestead result stands, Ricky finishes the season one place and 22 points ahead of his girlfriend, Danica Patrick. Danica can still claim $10,000 from Ricky if she ever beats him at golf (from an article I found here). The only penalty I did see yesterday was the indefinite suspension of crew member Kelly Johnson for violating the sanctioning body’s Substance Abuse Policy. The article on NASCAR.com was very brief, but further Googling suggests he's the jackman for the #7 team (it looks like NBC Sports found the same source that I did ).

It was Democratic Congresswoman Jackie Speier of California who sent a letter to NASCAR and Stewart-Haas Racing demanding that Kurt Busch should be immediately suspended. As Garrett said, "whatever happened to being innocent until proven guilty?". I wonder how quickly Ms Speier would step aside if she was accused of something, but hadn't been charged. This kind of knee-jerk reaction by people who aren't even connected with the incident seems to happen more and more these days. Don't get me wrong, if charges are brought against Kurt Busch, the whole situation changes. The Kurt Busch article that Garrett originally linked to would seem to suggest that his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, isn't after money. Near the end it says "Driscoll, in addition to her job as a defense contractor in Washington, D.C., is head of the Armed Forces Foundation. She has nothing to gain by all of this negative publicity. She is a successful woman, she has her own money, a lovely home, an excellent job." As for Travis Kvapil, he was arrested for domestic assault in October 2013, and pled guilty (why do so many sports journalists incorrectly use the word "pleaded"?) in January of this year. He was given two years' probation, fined and sentenced to 72 hours of community service. NASCAR, of course, did nothing about it. Personally, I doubt that NASCAR were planning to do anything about Kurt Busch if he gets charged, but recent high-profile cases like that of NFL player Ray Rice may force their hand and make them do the right thing. When an organization thinks that physical confrontations in the pitlane are acceptable, it really isn't much of a surpise that their default reaction is to do nothing.

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe Hobie's been on the 'shine again .

Welcome to HazzardNet, jaymzbo. Sorry I missed your question when you posted it (first posts can sometimes slip through the net by the time they're moderated!). As Hobie said, the series ran from 1979 to 1985. According to IMDb, season 7 originally aired between September 21, 1984 and February 8, 1985, so I'd guess that most/all of the filming was done in 1984. Which episode was the Camaro in?

I read this morning that Glen A Larson had passed away on Friday after a battle with cancer. He was 77. If you're a fan of 'The Dukes of Hazzard', you'll probably also be a fan of TV shows that were created/written/produced by Glen A Larson. His first hit series was 'Alias Smith and Jones', before being involved with shows like 'The Six Million Dollar Man', 'Battlestar Galactica', 'Buck Rogers in the 25th Century', 'The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries', 'Magnum, P.I.', 'B.J. and the Bear', 'The Fall Guy', 'Knight Rider', 'Automan', 'The Highwayman' and 'Manimal'. A full list of his work can be found on IMDb. Here's a reminder of how Glen A Larson's name appeared at the end of shows (left is 'Knight Rider', right is 'The Fall Guy'): R.I.P. Glen Albert Larson (January 3, 1937 - November 14, 2014)

Jeff Gordon had a very strong race and led 161 of the 267 laps, often by a couple of seconds. A debris caution came out on lap 248, and Gordon and Hamlin stayed out when pretty much everyone else pitted. There was another caution on lap 255 (Alex Bowman and Blake Koch had an accident), and Gordon pitted then, putting him back in the field. Sounds like you know more about JJ's problems than I do. If the commentators mentioned it, I didn't hear them, and the lap-by-lap guide just said "Lap 210: Jimmie Johnson's crew chief, Chad Knaus, the competition director and VP of competition called by the tower to the Sprint Cup hauler after the race." Jeff Gordon probably should have taken the win today, but that would have been a bit of a farce for the Chase. After all, that would have been three out of the final four races being won by non-Chase drivers. Out of the four Chase drivers in the race today, I think Kevin Harvick most deserved the championship. At the lap 248 caution (where Gordon didn't pit), Joey Logano's car came off the jack before the left side tires were fitted, and it took his crew quite a while to get his car off the ground so they could complete the stop. Ryan Newman made great progress through the field, but didn't actually lead any laps. Other than Jeff Gordon, the only drivers to lead laps were Kevin Harvick (54), Denny Hamlin (50), Kurt Busch (1) and Blake Koch (1). Ricky Stenhouse Jr had yet another anonymous race. His only mention in the lap-by-lap guide was on lap 236 when the caution for AJ Allmendinger's crash gave him the free pass. I though he might make up a few places near the end, but he finished 22nd (after starting 22nd!). Kyle Busch ended the race 21 laps down after part of his drivetrain broke as he left his pit box during a stop on lap 117. The guys in the studio afterwards were falling over each other saying how great the Chase had been this year. Admittedly, if your driver was one of the four contenders in today's race, it was an exciting finish, but I'd have to say that I didn't read one fan comment in support of the current setup when I was looking around a couple of days ago. Even the ones who generally liked the idea of the Chase thought that it needed modifying for next year. Certainly as I watched the first half of the race it was hard to believe that Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski weren't still in with a chance. I'll qualify Keselowski's inclusion in that list by saying that he deserved to be there by his results on the track rather than his behavior off of it. Maybe next year NASCAR will give out more appropriate and consistent punishments, but I'll probably miss them while I'm watching the flying pig races . For anyone suffering from withdrawal next Sunday, why not get up early and watch the final F1 race of the year. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix starts at 8 AM ET.