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This Matt Kenseth penalty seems harsh to me. I watch F1 where the cars usually have improvements and new parts for each race. Every designer tries to push the rules to the limit and find a loophole to gain some advantage. Occasionally a team is judged to have bent the rules too far and the offending part is banned. The last time I remember a driver/team being punished for illegal parts was several years ago. With Matt Kenseth it looks like his team's supplier made a genuine mistake (which admittedly should have been spotted), and the car had a single engine component that was marginally below weight without giving any advantage. The team gets slapped with a large fine, points deductions, and crew chief ban while drivers who fight and deliberately take out other cars get nothing. I can understand a zero tolerance approach to vehicle specs, but I wish NASCAR would be a bit more consistent and proportionate with their sanctions. Surely stripping Matt of the win and the associated points would be enough.

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Well K-Duke, it looks like I'm stealing your whole song title again . This song dates back to 1957, and appears on my Bacharach and David album: The Story Of My Life - Marty Robbins In the UK it was a hit a year later for . It must be a popular title, because when I went to YouTube and typed "The Story of my Life", neither of these songs came up!

I'll stick with the title. This one is a big dance hit from 1992. For anyone my age it will also remembered (to quote Wikipedia) "because the song was used in ".It's My Life - Dr. Alban

I'm happy to see Ricky starting from third - I hope he's stays out of the wall this week . BTW. Tomorrow's race is on Fox at 1:00 PM ET.

With all that water, I thought you might appreciate this one. The opening line is "Get in, get out of the rain." Waterfront - Simple Minds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUBz4J1Gc-w

Oceanic For any of y'all wondering about the connection, it's an early '90s UK dance track:

I thought we'd had this song before, but I can't find it. It dates back to the late 1940s. I'm My Own Grandpa - Lonzo and Oscar If y'all are having a hard time figuring out the family relationships, there's a Wikipedia article that explains the genealogy .

Same title as the first Billy Joel track, very different song: Laura - Scissor Sisters

With the exception of the General Lee, all the new cars I mentioned are sold under the Johnny Lightning name, and use the old RC2/Ertl molds. They are mid-range in terms of price and detail. The Ertl Authentics/Autoworld Silver Screen General Lees share a mold. They are a level above the other cars (and other General Lees) in terms of detail, but you pay a premium price for that. You can also get a standard General Lee in 1:18 and 1:25, but don't expect the same quality. I found a comparison of three different releases here.

The simple answer is "No". Thelma Claire (T.C.) Rogers was never heard of again, and Boss resumed responsibilty for the Duke Boys probation.

Assuming that you're talking about 1:18 scale models, I covered the recent releases in this thread. The Autoworld 'Silver Screen' General Lee is the most accurate so far, but will cost you $80-90. I have the previous one by Ertl (very similar detail), and it even has seat belts, accurate hood hinges and a wired up engine. The recently released patrol car is also the best so far because it has the correct lightbar for the first time. Conversely, the original Double Zero is slightly more accurate, but you'll have a hard time finding one of them now (they came with a 1:64 model in the same box and occasionally appear on Ebay for about $250). If you want a new Double Zero I'd get one quickly as they seem to be getting thinner on the ground.

It wasn't in the series, it only appeared in the 'Reunion' TV movie.

I think the original structure has now been scattered far and wide. Just to show what was there and what's there now, here's the original Duke Farm in April 2010: It survived into 2011, but the first 2011 aerial is very blurry. By the end of 2011 the farm had gone: All that's left now is the stone from the fireplaces/chimneys. You can see for yourself on Google Maps. Although Street View only goes as far as the junction in the bottom right of the aerials above, if you drag the Street View figure across the farm location you can see about half a dozen photos of the farm before dismantling.

I'm not sure if I've heard that particular story, but there was talk of preserving the farm for its historical significance (long before Dukes ). There's more discussion about the farm here.

It used to be on Disney's Golden Oak Ranch just east of Santa Clarita, CA. It was one of at least three movie ranches used to film the California episodes. As you can see from the pictures, it has recently disappeared as they take out some of the rural elements and build urban ones. Check it out on Google Maps. I think the Hazzard Stockyard buildings that are a few hundred yards south-west of the bridge location are now the only ones that still survive from when Dukes was filmed there. As for the other two main ranches, Sherwood was completely remodeled and turned into a golf club, and Valencia Oaks is now overgrown with the threat of housing development. CDoherty has a thread about the Valencia Oaks Ranch here.

If I remember correctly, it had become unsafe and beyond repair.

Hi Adam, welcome to HNet. I nearly missed your first posts with all the upheaval of the forum upgrade yesterday. I'm afraid that I can't answer your gaming questions, but I'm sure there's someone here who can.

Welcome to HNet. Unfortunately, the original Duke Farm is no longer there. It was dismantled last year, and I know that some HNet members were lucky enough to purchase parts of it. You can read a bit about it in this thread.

I first heard this track about ten years ago when it was used in . Not long after, I bought a compilation CD (the one pictured in the video below) because it had some other tracks I liked (at the time I didn't know what this track was). It seems to pop up on TV from time to time. Discogs.com catagorizes them as "Acid Jazz, Breakbeat, Downtempo". The nearest I have in my collection are the first two Lemon Jelly albums, although this has more sitar .

I was watching 'Days of Shine and Roses' recently when I decided to do Boss and Jesse's cars from the moonshine race. It's not clear what happened to 'Sweet Tillie', Uncle Jesse's 1971 Ford Custom 500 from 'High Octane', but in this episode he gets a 1967 Mustang from Cooter. I already had artwork for a fastback Mustang, so I only had to modify the roof and rear end, and add the side vents. It looks pretty stock apart from nearly every part being painted matt black. The hubcaps initially had me stumped, and I looked through all sorts of Ford wheels before I discovered that they come from a 1968 Pontiac Tempest! Just to confirm the new name, here's the closed captions from the scene where Jesse names the car 'Black Tillie II'. Jesse's opponent, Boss Hogg, drives a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro. This one just needed a reworking of the front and rear ends to change the 1967 Camaro that I already had. Just like Black Tillie II, nearly every part got spray-painted, this time gray. I've included a screengrab with the car's name because I was surprised to see it uses the British (correct!) spelling of "Grey". MaryAnne kindly confirmed that the Region 1 (US) DVDs have the same spelling for 'Grey Ghost, Jr.'. Like many of the other single-episode vehicles, it looks like there was more than one of each of these cars, although the differences are more noticeable on the Camaro (especially at the rear). A few episodes later, 'Hazzard Connection' also has a roughly painted Mustang and Camaro (the car used to scare Enos and one belonging to the bad guys respectively) - it's possible that these were the same cars repainted.

You're welcome . To be honest, I happened to look at the line-up just as the qualifying finished. and noticed that both of the drivers who missed out were called Scott (Speed and Riggs).