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The lights are beautiful. It's just a shame that it hardly ever gets dark in Hazzard .

My mistake - it must have been the 2002 race that I went to because the Arrows team was still racing. I watched it from near Stowe corner, i.e. the far side of the track from the start/finish straight as it was at the time. You're correct that the priest ran across the track during the 2003 race.

Thanks for the pictures, Roth. The only motoring event I've been to at Silverstone was the 2003 British Grand Prix, although I did run around the circuit during a hail storm in the early '80s (and being an old airfield, it was quite exposed!). I haven't been back since they changed the layout a few years ago. Regarding the truck racing, I've seen it on TV a few times and it looks pretty exciting. When I was in London, one of the teams used to keep their truck outside an industrial unit near where I worked.

belly (as in a good belly laugh) In British English we'd generally use the word snigger to mean the same thing (snicker would be regarded as American). Snickers is also a European maker of workwear.

I hope they're all high-pressure hoses, and not those "plain old store-bought rubber hoses" that nearly saw the end of Cooter's in 'Welcome Back, Bo 'n' Luke' (when they were switched by Joey).

I've highlighted the visible camera mount on the hood in 'Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough', and I thought I'd mentioned the interior of Cale's car changing color when they paint the exterior (if I did, it must be in another thread), but I think the disappearing roll bar is a new one. Here's the beginning and end of Cale's test run - one with a roll bar ... ... and one without!

Snickers (Snickers bars were marketed as "Marathon" bars in the UK and Ireland until 1990)

Mark, I'm sure you've started posted screengrabs from the show instead of pictures of your model . Excellent work!

It almost seems a shame to take off the vinyl roof since the car looks good as it is. The subtlety of the ghost signs is great.

Welcome to HNet, Mike. You're the second model maker who's joined recently. I look forward to your General Lee pics.

It was nice of the organizers to dedicate the show to James Best. I hope you enjoy seeing your first General Lee .

Willkommen zu HNet, BerlinDuke. Although I'm in Europe, sadly, I won't be able to attend the Euro Dukesfest. Maybe Roth is going.

If Roger had pictures, I bet he'd be waiting to collect them from the drugstore . I also looked at the Northeast Ohio Dukes site, but all they had was this 2015 promo (uploaded 12/22/2014) which I think is new to the thread:

My apologies, it was a great result for Max. I've just seen his interview, and he was nearly speechless. It was also good to see both McLarens in the points.

As Mufn said, welcome to HNet, Andrew, and we look forward to seeing some pictures of your models.

Well, today's Hungarian GP sure didn't turn out like that. A win for Ferrari, and Red Bull filling the other two podium places. Mercedes could only manage sixth and eighth in an incident-packed race.

After Cooter launches the bike through the door, Bo says "Cooter, that ain't no way to treat your bike." Cooter replies "It wasn't mine." Bo says "No.", and then a guy at the pinball machine says "It was mine." as he punches Cooter in the face.

Why would Cooter wear sunglasses with one lens missing, and at night? He ain't dumb, but he is crazy .

I'm no good at identifying bikes, but here are a couple of pictures which might help someone else: This one shows some text on the panel below the seat, but I can't read it.

toupée (allegedly!) There are so many things you can say about a man who wants to build a great wall to keep out immigrants, but won't be influenced by the Chinese .

If I may hijack this thread for a moment, I've just heard the sad news that Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi has died. The 25-year-old Frenchman had been in a coma since a crash at the Japanese Grand Prix nine months ago. BBC F1 commentator and former team owner Eddie Jordan spoke this morning of how Jules had been on Ferrari's young driver program, and how he was destined for great things. During last year's rain-hit Japanese Grand Prix, Jules' car left the track and hit a recovery vehicle that was picking up the crashed car of Adrian Sutil. His family said: "Jules fought right to the very end, as he always did, but today his battle came to an end." This is the first death of a Formula 1 driver resulting from injuries sustained in a race since Ayrton Senna in 1991. Safety car procedures were changed by the next race, so hopefully this kind of accident will never happen again. More info here.

Welcome to HNet. It looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you. That Charger looks a little odd with the headlights exposed by the missing grille - you don't often see them like that. Are you planning to change the front clip to a '69, or are you keeping it as a '70?

Are they still eating squirrels, Roger?

Thanks for the review, Lizzy, and for the links you posted earlier this week. I haven't been able to follow the races like I did last year, but I try keep up-to-date with the results.

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.