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I think this is the scene that both of you are talking about - it's certainly the scene I was thinking of. It's from 'The Great Bank Robbery' in season 4. The hat looks the same except for the text on the front. The other fire department guys have slightly different labels. I'm trying to remember if Jesse wore a hat like this in any other episodes. BTW. I think the signed picture of Tom and John was taken outside the coffin works/cotton mill building on Laramie Street, which was your second guess .

Congratulations to Jimmie Johnson for winning his sixth championship. I was keeping an eye on the mid-table towards the end. Aric Almirola managed to finish ahead of Ricky Stenhouse Jr (who had a mediocre second half of the race), but Ricky stayed ahead of Jeff Burton. I think that means that Ricky finished 19th in the table, which isn't bad for a rookie year, although a few more top-ten finishes would have been nice (he did start a race on pole). I think my favorite move of the race was Junior doing a sling-shot past Keselowski and Hamlin just before Paul Menard's tire incident.

Had to watch this one on Sky - we're back to the commercial-free coverage on the BBC for Brazil .

I think that qualifies you as a 'serious' fan. Welcome to HNet .

Dang it, they've gone to a commercial break, and it's barely two and half hours since the last one .

Record breaking result - Vettel becomes the first driver to win eight consecutive races in a single season. I also enjoyed seeing Nigel Mansell and Sir Jackie Stewart in their cowboy hats (Sir Jackie also had a sheriff's badge ).

Your race is 10 laps in, mine has 10 to go!

I'm watching a good race in Austin .

I think I prefer the Miura (the car Jay Leno had either side of his Countach), although they also suffered from an aerodynamic problem, as this Top Gear clips explains: They also mention the car's appearance in The Italian Job - does it get better than this? During the week I actually saw a guy parked up in his single-seater Lamborghini, chatting away on his phone. This being Ireland, however, it was one of these : I bet Roger would prefer a picture of one of these on his wall .

I think you're right. The picture came from the Wikipedia page, and there's a larger version of the photo. Before you get carried away and start saving for a Countach, they were apparently better to look at than to own:

The guy driving the Porsche is the movie's director, Hal Needham. 'Speed Zone' also goes by the alternate title 'Cannonball Fever'. According to IMDb's triva page, 'Speed Zone' is "considered to be a distant relative of the Cannonball Run films, and in fact it was at one point going to be called Cannonball Run III." Those US-spec bumpers were really ugly:

According to IMCDB, the Lamborghini in 'Speed Zone' was a Countach LP 5000S or 5000QV, although they also used replicas in the movie. The one behind John looks real. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_549236-Lamborghini-Countach-5000-QV-1985.html Cathy starts out in a very similar car in 'Cannonball Run II' (which I got to see again last week ).

Well, in a break from the norm this week, I actually got to see the qualifying and Garrett beat me to the write-up . Kurt Busch set the early pace, and I was pleased that Ricky Stenhouse Jr held 4th for a while on exactly the same time as Martin Truex Jr. Jimmie Johnson's looking good in 7th, but Jeff Gordon, who qualified straight after Jimmie, starts back in 26th. Elliot Sadler's team were delighted with 10th. In the end, Matt Kenseth got the pole despite a valiant effort by Brad Keselowski, who went last. Sunday is likely to the last Sprint Cup race for 58-year-old Ken Schrader, who starts 41st - read more here. Sunday's Ford EcoBoost 400 from the Homestead-Miami Speedway starts at 3 PM ET, and is live on ESPN. Don't forget that F1 is in the USA this week. The action at Austin starts at 2 PM ET (as long as there's no more fog), so y'all can watch some of the F1 race before the engines are started in Miami.

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Double Dukes is fine with me. 4pm Eastern is 9pm for me and 10pm for Roth.

I'm sure it was in a trophy, and since you said it was in the first season, I think Roth has to be right.

That was an exciting finish today. Ricky dropped back to 20th after pitting at the last caution, but then made up some places quite quickly. Sorry Garrett, but I cheered when he passed JG and his team mate, Biffle, on the same lap. He was even closing on Keselowski for a while, but got the extra place thanks to Carl Edwards running out of gas. As someone once said, "it don't matter where you start, it matters where you end the race", and I'm happy with 27th to 12th. The result also puts Ricky two points ahead of Jeff Burton and Aric Almirola .

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I didn't get to watch the qualifying in pictures, but I was keeping an eye on the drivers' times as it happened. I was happy enough when I saw Ricky in 16th, but then I realized how many fast drivers still had to qualify. It was worse for Dave Blaney - he started out first and slowly slid down to 42nd. Garrett, your drivers did well again, both inside the top five. 1 Jimmie Johnson 2 Denny Hamlin 3 Joey Logano 4 Kyle Busch 5 Jeff Gordon 6 Clint Bowyer 7 Kasey Kahne 8 Kurt Busch 9 Kevin Harvick 10 Martin Truex Jr 11 Dale Earnhardt Jr 12 Brad Keselowski 13 Paul Menard 14 Matt Kenseth 15 Jeff Burton 16 Mark Martin 17 Ryan Newman 18 Greg Biffle 19 Juan Pablo Montoya 20 Marcos Ambrose 21 Aric Almirola 22 Elliott Sadler 23 Carl Edwards 24 Reed Sorenson 25 Justin Allgaier 26 Bobby Labonte 27 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 28 Josh Wise 29 Cole Whitt 30 Casey Mears 31 Travis Kvapil 32 Danica Patrick 33 David Gilliland 34 David Ragan 35 J.J. Yeley 36 Jamie McMurray 37 David Reutimann 38 Timmy Hill 39 Michael McDowell 40 Landon Cassill 41 Tony Raines 42 Dave Blaney 43 Joe Nemechek The AdvoCare 500 from the Phoenix International Raceway is on this Sunday at 3:00 PM ET. Live coverage is on ESPN.

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Don't forget, "Boss' paving company mixes the only cement that's thin enough...to fish in."

Baa, Baa White Sheep.

I've also heard the rumor about the Hollywood sign appearing in an episode, but have never seen it myself (other than in the episode and movie set in Hollywood). Roth, there are two or three episodes in season 2 which filmed scenes in Griffith Park, but I don't think the sign is visible from the roads they used. One of the later episodes used the tunnel on Mount Hollywood Drive in Griffith Park, but I still don't recall seeing the sign. If anyone can pin down the scene or episode, I'll take a look, but I believe it's just a myth.

I'll probably be around if we start at about the same time (remembering that we're back to the usual time difference). If we do watch two episodes, I propose a refreshment break between the two, which will also allow the region 1 viewers to catch up .

As Roth said, my Hazzard Square thread has pictures of all the buildings in the town square and several others. If you're building the square, you may also find my Buildings of Hazzard thread useful, and you could also take a look at my Signs of Hazzard thread for various random signage from around the county. A couple of members have already modeled some of Hazzard County. Mark B was working on a very impressive model of Cooter's garage, and his The Hazzard Garage (Cooter's Garage) thread includes a floor plan. On a smaller scale, Monster01 built an HO scale model of the square. The HO Scale Model of Hazzard Square thread includes loads of work-in-progress pictures.