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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.

Thanks for your comments. Y'all may remember this picture from post #81. It's the hospital that Uncle Jesse gets taken to in 'Witness: Jesse Duke'. It looks like I was right about the clip being stock footage of a real hospital, because I think I've found it. Check out this view on Google Maps. It shows the east side of Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Using Historic Aerials, I've checked the location and found that the square white building with the helipad on the roof was just a car park back in 1980. Google Earth gives historical views back to 1989, and the white building was there by then. The height, roof and general design all look right to me - it's just a shame you can no longer get the view used in the show to confirm it.

You can see the qualifying groups here. Qualifying takes place at 2 PM ET today (Saturday). I've just read that Jaques Villeneuve is taking part this weekend. I saw him interviewed at the Canadian GP two weeks ago, but he didn't mention it - the circuit in Montreal is named after his father. Danica still seems to have a grudge against him. I know he can be a controversial and outspoken figure at times (the British F1 reporters sometimes bump into him at races that he's covering for other broadcasters), but you don't get to be F1 World Champion and Indy 500 winner without being a good driver. You can see the story here: Danica, Bowyer expect respect from Villeneuve One of the commenters said "no one likes him because his name is hard to pronounce lol". His surname only has two syllables, the same as Patrick and Bowyer, so I can only conclude that the commenter is just ignorant.

I had planned to post 'When My Ship Comes In', a folk song by Clive Gregson & Christine Collister, but I couldn't find it. While I was searching YouTube I found this song with the same name, and gave it a listen to see if it was the same song. It wasn't, but I enjoyed it anyway, and although various Clint Black songs have been posted before, this one hasn't: When My Ship Comes In - Clint Black

The AutoWorld General might not be perfect, but it's a lot better than the original ERTL release - go ahead, treat yourself . I've just checked on Ebay, and while some sellers are asking up to $100, most are between $65 and $75. The other thread you mention is General Lee Diecast Question, which duplicates some of the info from here. I did my best to list all the previous 1:18 releases (2000-2008) in this post.

I was just looking to see if the starting line-up for Sunday's race at Sonoma had been decided when I came across an article saying that NASCAR are changing the qualifying format for Sonoma and Watkins Glen (the two road courses) to give a better show for the fans. Instead of single-car qualifying, they'll be be doing group qualifying: “Cars will be assigned to one of five or six groups based on practice speeds, slowest to fastest. Within those groups, cars will be separated fastest to slowest and released at intervals. Each group will have a window in which cars can complete their qualifying each likely receiving three laps at full speed. A car’s fastest lap will count and the field will be set based upon overall qualifying speeds. The process has been used previously for NASCAR Nationwide Series road course qualifications.†The full article I read is here.

This one looks like it's from the same photoshoot as the season 7 DVD cover.

Thanks for the pictures, Roth. I was tempted to get one of these, but I've got nowhere to put it. Besides, I already have the 'Bluesmobile' which uses the same 1974 Dodge Monaco mold. I thought they could've made the County Sheriff star more accurate, but overall it's an improvement on the old one.

They were easy to find than I thought .

I found an old MySpace site last year with 18 of these miniatures pictures (including six of these eight). The MySpace link is now dead, but you can see some discussion about the miniatures here. I'll dig out the other 12 pictures and post them tomorrow.

The phrase is usually "He shot himself in the foot", but you're close enough . I think he went on the forum to publicize the new product without realizing how many inaccuracies there were. I get the feeling that he thought the decal tweaks were pretty much all that was needed. Yes, please do. Did your Corgi General come with Bo and Luke?

Thanks for your contributions, Roth. As I said above, I have the Ertl Authentics General which is very close to the AutoWorld model. I remember reading a discussion on another website before the AutoWorld one came out. Someone (supposedly) from the manufacturer posted about the improvements they planned, and asked it anything else needed to be tweaked. I know one of the other posters criticized the rollcage design, at which point the manufacturer guy said that they didn't have the budget to redesign anything significant, and he didn't take the further criticism well either. Yes, the real boot (or I suppose I should say "trunk") really is that badly designed:

I've just read the sad news that yodeling country/folk sing Slim Whitman has passed away at 90. His 1955 hit held the record for longest time at #1 in the UK charts for 36 years. Although he had most of his success between the '50s and '70s, his music played a large part in the plot of the 1996 movie 'Mars Attacks' (the Martians heads exploded when they heard his ).To keep in with the last post, and to follow the rules of this thread, I'm going for: I Remember You - Slim Whitman RIP. Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013)

I can't even find that one, but I like it. I did find a variation: "They can’t fire me, slaves have to be sold."

Pontiac (I think they stopped making them too)

I thought I'd Google this one to see if I could find who did say it. So far I've found it (with slight modifications) attributed to Ogden Nash, Germaine Greer, John P. Grier, Charles Scoggins and Hannah Marks. Most sites suggest one of the first two. It's probably safe to say that the author is unknown.

Volkswagen

The idea of a "lonely hearts" section came up in this thread, and I think the general view was that it wasn't a good idea. The new forum doesn't currently have a chat room, so you're probably stuck with PMing people for the time being.