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The owner wouldn't let me go through the window. Probably just as well seeing as the door locks were still sticking up. It wasn't an exact replica because it had a black interior, but is was the way the owner wanted it, and I was grateful for the chance to sit inside. I've seen pictures of the red room - it's quite impressive. I have been to Beaulieu, but it was about the time Dukes started ie. over 30 years ago - you can imagine how cool a monorail was to a small child in the late '70s . My brother went a few years ago, so it's probably time for me to go again. The show I really want to get to is the Goodwood Festival of Speed (again in the south of England). They have road and racing cars of all ages and from all over the world, along with top racing drivers, and some of the old cars go racing!

They're not so easy to see in Europe are they? I've been lucky enough to see three. The first I saw on a freeway in Richmond, VA. back in 1983, but I didn't get a good look. Then, a few years ago I went to The Cars of the Stars museum in the north of England. It's closed now and I think the collection went to Florida, but one of their exhibits claimed to be a genuine screen-used General Lee. They had several Bond cars and Batmobiles etc. as well, but they only allowed you to take photographs if you spent a certain amount in their gift shop. It was a quite a small place and the no photo policy really sucked, but it's a shame the cars have gone so far away. About two or three years ago I went to an American car show here in Ireland and finally got to sit in a General - you should've seen the smile on my face . BTW, Roth, what's the Haynes Museum like? I planned to go a few years back, but never made it.

Here's a few screengrabs to explain the geography. First is the General approaching Starr Recording from the northern end of Spring Street: This is the building that used to be on the opposite side of the street: Daisy then waits in the General in a car park which is between the studio and the freeway on the aerial maps. The back of the studio is the building above the hood on the right. Boss's Caddy escapes by driving down the ramp behind the General and going north up Williams Street (the road parallel to the freeway). This is the view looking north-west from roughly where the General was parked. The brick building on the right has now gone. The white sign just to the left of the Atlanta patrol car is actually on the far side of the freeway. The General pushes the patrol car out of the way and heads south on Williams Street. And yes, I had heard the story about the antenna.

I did notice that, but forgot to include it in my post. The back of those buildings (where the famous hood slide was filmed) has also changed considerably. Here is an aerial view from 1978 with the Starr Recording building highlighted for reference. Spring Street goes north to south roughly in the center of the picture: This aerial from 2013 shows the freeway is now much wider, and the little row of buildings by Starr Recording is about the only part of the whole area to remain untouched. The turquoise square on the lower right side is actually the top of One Atlantic Center, an 820 foot tall skyscraper.

Great pics of Atlanta. I still find it interesting that the buildings on that side of the street have survived virtually unchanged, but the other side has changed beyond all recognition. I thought I'd posted a Google Maps link in the Hazzard Square thread, but it was actually hidden away in the trivia thread (and no longer works for some reason): Recent Street View of Starr Recording building on Spring Street NW. I'm going to agree with you about the two people you named in the last picture, but can't offer any more names.

Sorry to hear that you're still having problems, Roger, but you're not alone. Unfortunately, it sometimes goes with computer owenership. Last week I did a regular Windows update and an anti-virus update, and one of them seems to have stopped Adobe Flash working properly. That doesn't just affect YouTube, but also a load of other sites that use some amount of flash on their pages. When I tried reverting to the previous setup, my computer spent about 20-30 minutes going through the motions before telling me the operation had failed for an unknown reason! After trying various unistalls/reinstalls I think I've fixed it by changing a setting in Flash, but it was a pain to track down.

The episode is 'Arrest Jesse Duke' in season 2.

Just seen that the race has been postponed until tomorrow (Sunday) at noon ET.

Rain delay in Kentucky - it'll probably start too late for me to see all of it . When the race does start, there will be a competition caution at lap 30 to check tire wear. No re-fuelling will be allowed until then.

I've just checked out the Everything DUKES of Hazzard Related Tribute PAGE - Corey Eubanks is the lead admin for the page. Cindy Wills was a new name to me, but it looks like she doubled for Cathy in some of the stunts (her IMDb page lists some other stunt work, but not Dukes). Her name appears among the 'Likes' under some of the posts.

It looks like most of the pre-race coverage of tomorrow's race in Kentucky has centered on Kyle Petty's comments about Danica Patrick. In an interview with SPEED, Petty said “I don’t have a problem with her being a marketing machine -- more power to her.â€, but he went on to say “ … Danica has been the perfect example of somebody who can qualify better than what she runs. She can go fast, but she can’t race. I think she’s come a long way, but she’s still not a race car driver. And I don’t think she’s ever going to be a race car driver.†You can see the original story here. Danica's response is here. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has come out in support of Danica - you can read his view here.

Here's the provisional starting order for tomorrow's Quaker State 400 at the Kentucky Speedway: 1. Dale Earnarhdt Jr 2. Carl Edwards 3. Jimmie Johnson 4. Kyle Busch 5. Marcos Ambrose 6. Denny Hamlin 7. Ryan Newman 8. Brad Keselowski 9. Brian Vickers 10. Juan Pablo Montoya 11. Joey Logano 12. Jeff Gordon 13. Ricky Stenhouse Jr 14. Jeff Burton 15. Clint Bowyer 16. Matt Kenseth 17. A.J. Allmendinger 18. Aric Almirola 19. Martin Truex Jr. 20. Greg Biffle 21. Kasey Kahne 22. Kevin Harvick 23. Jamie McMurray 24. Paul Menard 25. Tony Stewart 26. Austin Dillon 27. Kurt Busch 28. David Stremme 29. Danica Patrick 30. Landon Cassill 31. Casey Mears 32. Dave Blaney 33. Michael McDowell 34. David Gilliland 35. JJ Yeley 36. David Reutimann 37. Josh Wise 38. David Ragan 39. Mike Bliss 40. Travis Kvapil 41. Joe Nemecheck 42. Scott Riggs 43. Ken Schrader I think the commentator said that the top nine drivers broke the lap record. I tuned in just in time to see Ricky get third, but he got pushed down to 13th by the end. Garrett, can you ask Jeff to get out of Ricky's way at the start? - I don't want him being held up . According to NASCAR.com, the race will be on TNT at 07:30 PM ET, but after last week it might be best to check your listings.

More great pics, Roth. I think this shot from 'Farewell, Hazzard' (that I originally posted in the Bloopers thread) shows Al Wyatt Jr behind the wheel as Bo.

The Cubs won't win until 2015 - did you learn nothing from 'Back to the Future Part II'?

The Chickasaw car must be from one of the later seasons as it doesn't have the fangs on the front. It immediately made me think of the stunt below from 'Hughie Hogg Strikes Again'. It's clearly not the car from that stunt, but something similar could produce the damage seen above.

I heard this on the radio a couple of weeks ago for the first time in ages. I'm suprised it hasn't made it to this thread before: Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter One of the listeners suggested that Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's version is better. I actually like both of them - see what y'all think:

Was it my imagination, or were there even more commercial breaks than usual today? I'd swear that several times they only showed two laps of racing between commercials. Garrett, I'm sure you're happy with the result, but you forgot to mention DW jointly giving the command "Drivers, start your engines" and saying "Boogity, boogity, boogity! Let's go racin' boys and girls" - I bet you liked that bit too .

Contrary to Garrett's earlier insinuation, I don't have a lot of techno in my collection, but I'd hate to turn down a request . I you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed NKOTB Hey Boy Hey Girl - The Chemical Brothers Don't forget to play it loud. Superstar DJs - here we go!

To borrow a quote from Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz that I posted recently in another thread: "I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong."

Next time I'll make sure I use NASCAR.com for my information as I can't rely on NASCAR.com . For every other race this year I'm sure the times on the schedule has been the race start time. I'm pretty sure they usually agree with the front page.

I was just on NASCAR.com to check for last minute news and to open a Live Leaderboard window ready for the race when I got worried that I'd posted the wrong start time. Here's the front page I got: And here's the schedule where I got my original information: I thought I might have misread the time zone, but one clearly says 3 PM ET and the other 2 PM ET.

I think you're confusing my music taste with yours . A Girl Like You - Edwyn Collins And here's a clip of Edwyn on the 1995 Christmas special of the surreal UK panel show 'Shooting Stars':

Well you could've posted this one :

Well, if you'd read my post from yesterday in Nascar News you'd know all about the new qualifying format . I saw that earlier, and it's very sad. He was only 10 minutes into the race and his Aston Martin hit the barrier hard on the driver's side. The rest of the team are carrying on at the request of Allan's family. It's the first death at Le Mans since 1997.

I don't normally get a chance to see the qualifying, but it worked out to be at a convenient time today, so I thought I'd check out the new format for road courses. In case y'all missed it in the Nascar News thread, the cars were split into groups of five or six based on practice times. Victor Gonzalez Jr hit the wall in the first group, bringing out a caution, and Martin Truex Jr had a small electrical fire causing a caution in his group. It didn't make much difference - nearly all the fastest times were set on the first lap, even though there was time for three or four. As you can see, Jamie McMurray gets the pole. Jeff Gordon did well in his group, and was 4th for a while before slipping to 10th. I didn't see much of Ricky's lap, but he was slowest in his group and just slid down the table when the following groups went out. Fingers crossed that he can do something in the race, but it's more difficult to come from back there on a road course. The complete starting lineup is: 1 Jamie McMurray 2 Marcos Ambrose 3 Carl Edwards 4 Greg Biffle 5 Clint Bowyer 6 Matt Kenseth 7 Kurt Busch 8 Joey Logano 9 Kyle Busch 10 Jeff Gordon 11 Tony Stewart 12 Kevin Harvick 13 Juan Pablo Montoya 14 Martin Truex Jr 15 Kasey Kahne 16 Paul Menard 17 Denny Hamlin 18 Brad Keselowski 19 Jimmie Johnson 20 Bobby Labonte 21 Casey Mears 22 Jacques Villeneuve 23 David Ragan 24 Boris Said 25 Ron Fellows 26 Dale Earnhardt Jr 27 Jeff Burton 28 David Stremme 29 David Gilliland 30 Ryan Newman 31 Danica Patrick 32 Aric Almirola 33 Travis Kvapil 35 Josh Wise 36 Justin Marks 37 Ricky Stenhouse Jr 38 David Reutimann 39 Alex Kennedy 40 Paulie Harraka 41 Tomy Drissi 42 Victor Gonzalez Jr 43 J.J. Yeley The race is on tomorrow (Sunday) at 2.00 PM ET on TNT.