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Happy Birthday MaryAnne
.Just bear with us - we've had to move the location of the celebrations, and we're a little behind schedule
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Just to update the F1 pit stop info: at the last race in Malaysia, Red Bull managed to change all four of Mark Webber's tires in 2.05 seconds. The following video has commentary in German, but it's only 12 seconds long:
F1 2013 - Pit Stop Record at Malaysian GP by Red Bull and Webber
It took them a massive 2.13 seconds to change the tires of him team mate, Sebastian Vettel! I think they adjust the front wing too.
If you look just above the yellow nose of the car, you can just see the traffic lights which tell the driver when to go.
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Hey, great - we're doing number songs. I'll see your 1994 and raise you five
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She's a rich girl, she don't try to hide it ...
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During one pit stop while they were changing tires Martin started to go before they put the tire on! As Darrell Waltrip said, his crew must have said woah and he thought they said go...which is why they should come up with other words that don't sound a like for commands.
It happened to Jenson Button two weeks ago at the Malaysian Grand Prix, and in F1 the teams have complex systems involving traffic lights and sensors to try and prevent mistakes. Then again, when it goes right they can change all four tires in 2.31 seconds!:
Well y'all...next week is Texas where they will be racing under the lights Saturday night. In case y'all have forgotten...I love night racing!Night races aren't so good for me. I think next week's race starts at about 2 AM my time, and with the Chinese Grand Prix starting at 8 AM, I think I may have to give your race a miss
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Snoopy
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As you can probably tell from his name, this guy's obviously from Scotland
.I love this song! This song has always reminded me of the Dukes for some reason. Perhaps it is just me...
It was in the 2005 movie - one of the only good things about the movie IMHO
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Here's a track from Kirsty's Cuban/Latin American influenced album 'Tropical Brainstorm':
You're proving to be a bad influence on me, Garrett. When I saw "Shoes" I nearly posted a Montgomery Gentry track
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I didn't expect it to go back and forth either, but it's been fun and I've learned a few things along the way. If you ever get a chance to see documentaries about any of these drivers they are well worth watching - they all have great stories to tell.
Incidentally, the ESPN list put Jeff Gordon at #10 (although one of the voters was Jeff Gordon
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But really? Dale Sr is the only NASCAR driver you think deserves to be on your list?
If I made the list bigger I would probably include NASCAR drivers like Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon, but I don't think they'd make my top 10.
Who else has won five championships in a row? JJ is the only one in NASCAR to do such a thing. Shouldn't that be recognized in your list of greats?It's impressive, but he doesn't even make ESPN's top 25.
Or what about Darrell Waltrip winning his championship in my birth year...now come on that has got to be on your list of greatest achieviements.Acknowledged above - made #20 in ESPN's top 25.
Or what about Dale JR being recognized as the most popular driver for nine years in a row? Where does that fall in your list?Most popular driver has little to do with most talented.
Or who else does a backflip off their drivers window after a win as Carl Edwards does before he goes INTO the grandstands to celebrate with the fans?Are we making a list of the greatest drivers or gymnasts?
Or who else climbs the fence after a win as Tony Stewart use to do?A monkey? Do you really rate drivers by their climbing ability?
And for Roger's sake...who else attacks another driver with their helmet on the first televised race as Cale had done?So now we're rating drivers on their fighting ability? Maybe I should include Wladimir Klitschko in my list of greatest drivers since he's the current heavyweight boxing champion (IBF, WBO & WBA (Super Champion)).
And you call yourself a Ricky Stenhouse Jr fan...you didn't even mention him on your list.I said I'd follow him this year - calling me a fan may be a bit of an exaggeration. Also, I'm not going to name a driver who's only a few races into his rookie season in a list of all-time greats. Who knows, he may make it one day. He's currently 16 points and 6 places ahead of Jeff Gordon
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A lot of those names sound familiar, but if it is outside of NASCAR, I know littlel about 'em. Sorry to disappoint you Hoss.
You don't disappoint me, but if you don't know who most of these people are, how can you even begin to name the greatest driver in history? Michael Schumacher only retired last year, but some of these drivers go back to the 1950s.
Juan Manuel Fangio - The first driver to win five F1 championships. Fangio dominated the first decade of F1. Fangio's championships came for four different teams, a feat that never has been matched.
Michael Schumacher - The only driver to win seven F1 championships. He is the only driver to win five consecutive F1 championships. Over that period, Schumacher won a staggering 48 of 85 events.
Ayrton Senna - Three championships over a four-year span and 41 F1 victories in 161 starts. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone called Senna, "The greatest driver I've ever seen."
John Surtees - The only man to win world championships on two wheels and four.
Stirling Moss - His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite — he is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship"
Mario Andretti - The only driver to win an F1 title, the Indy 500 and the Daytona 500, and last American to win an F1 championship.
Mike Hailwood - Considered to be the 'best motorcycle racer ever' by experts the world over. He won ten World Championships. He then turned to motor racing and went on to win the Formula Two European Championship for the Surtees team, then moved into Formula One. He was awarded The George Medal, Britain's highest award for civilian bravery, for his heroic rescue of Clay Regazzoni who was trapped and unconcious in his burning car after crashing in the 1973 South African F1 Grand Prix.
Sébastien Loeb - He is the most successful driver in WRC (World Rally Championship) history, having won the world championship a record nine times in a row.
Jim Clark - At the time of his death, Clark had won more races (25) and more poles (33) than any driver in F1 history. Clark won the Indy 500 in 1965, becoming the only man to win the F1 championship and Indy in the same season.
AJ Foyt - The first four-time winner of the Indy 500 and the most Indy car victories in history with 67. Raced in Indy car until the age of 60. His final Cup race came in the inaugural Brickyard 400 at age 61.
Jackie Stewart - One of only eight drivers to win three F1 championships. Stewart helped revolutionize safety standards at F1 tracks and was one of the first to use safety belts and full-face helmets.
Dale Earnhardt Sr - One of only two drivers (along with Richard Petty) to win seven Cup championships. He was considered the greatest restrictor-plate racer of his era.
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Hey Roger...I do like Cale and think it is great that Cale was on the Dukes...but really? The greatest driver in history? I think I would have to disagree with you on the greatest...what about Jeff Gordon? Jeff has more wins that Cale. HOw about Johnson? Or what about the King who has two hundred wins...the most of all time?! Or what about Darrell Waltrip?
Think Cale is great, but the greatest?
I agree that Cale was a great driver, and I'm sorry to disappoint both of you, but unless you're only talking about the greatest NASCAR driver of all time, none of these drivers even make the top 10!
Try looking up some of the following drivers (in no particular order):
Juan Manuel Fangio
Michael Schumacher
Ayrton Senna
John Surtees
Stirling Moss
Mario Andretti
Mike Hailwood
Sébastien Loeb
Jim Clark
AJ Foyt
Jackie Stewart
Dale Earnhardt Sr
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The popcorn episode was when the female sherriff came in to Hazzard under the pretext of escorting a prisoner but her actual goal was to break him out. I can't remember the exact episode but it was one of the last episodes of season 4 if that's any help.
We both went for the right season. My first thought was 'Diamonds in the Rough' when Rosco's electronic speed sign messes with the electrics at the Boar's Nest. In that scene all the electric devices start spewing out money, although a huge amount of popcorn gets thrown in the air. By the time I'd checked out that scene, someone on the FaceBook page had correctly named 'Miz Tisdale on the Lam' as the episode with the misbehaving popcorn machine.
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I have to admit, I only got to hear this song because it's being used on
, but it was catchy enough for me to look up on YouTube.Their website says they "make psychedelic hypno-groove melodic rock music". Most of the debate on YouTube seems to be about whether or not they sound like The Beatles.
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Whatever happened to the heroes?
I hadn't heard it until I went looking for Wilie's.I'm so glad that you can use punctuation correctly
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dolls
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porridge
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In this picture you can just see a water tower on top of the hill. I know these are all over the area, but there is one (now two together) to the south-east of the site, which would put it in the right place.
Look in the background of this picture and you'll see that the design of the street lights is the same as the current ones. If my research is correct, the street sign (highlighted) would read "Wiley Cyn Rd" - it's not legible in the show, but the words are the right length. Above the blue car on the right is some sort of electricity transformer station (it's now owned by Edison), labeled "5" on the map. The blue car itself looks like an early Firebird, possibly the same model as the one driven by the car thieves in Knight Rider (inset). They steal KITT from the Shell gas station.
As I said, I've found no definitive pictures of the hospital; the new building there now belongs to Realty Executives, but hopefully the pictures above have led you to the same conclusion as me. I will add that the first Knight Rider picture above shows the building in question offered "Preventive Medicine and Chelation Therapy" back in 1982 - not a million miles away from a hospital. If I've read the sign correctly, the telephone number still belongs to a chiropractor in another part of Santa Clarita.
This reverse shot of the bad guy who confronts Jud Kane as he leaves the hospital confused me for a while. I couldn't match any of the blurry background buildings, and have now concluded that it was filmed elsewhere.
I'll finish with a final picture from 'Knight Of The Phoenix'. Only three years after 'Hazzard Connection', and poor old Augie Detweiller is now having to drive the demolition derby car himself! Another of the cars is driven by Charles Napier, who appeared in two Dukes episodes.
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This picture from 'Brotherly Love' shows Bo on the roof of the bad guys' car in the hospital car park. You can clearly see the wall/trees in the background. The trees are much bigger now, but I managed to get the inset house picture from Street View. I'm sure it's the house on the right, marked "3" on the map above. You briefly get to see the gas station to the left of the rainbow truck, but I could only get blurry screengrabs. Watch the episode and you'll see a different building to the one that's there today, and I'd say it matches the 45 degree angle of the old building that I've marked "4" on the map.
Looking in the other direction you'll see a distinctive pylon. I've inset the one that's there today, and it looks the same to me. That would make the low building above the green car the Valley Community Church (labeled "6" on the map). It's still there today, but is now hidden by a new store.
The next two pictures go together. Sorry the first is a little blurry, but look at the hilltop houses to the left of Bo's shoulder.
I think they're the same as ones above the stop sign in this picture from Knight Rider.
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I've been looking for the hospital building used in 'Brotherly Love'/'Cale Yarborough Comes to Hazzard' for over 18 months now (post #88, 4th picture/post#120, 3rd picture), and finally I think I've found its location. Take a good look at the picture below as I'll be referring back to it. Y'all may have noticed that it's been stitched together from two pictures to show the whole building and some of its surroundings.
Recently I was watching an episode of Knight Rider called 'Give Me Liberty... or Give Me Death' to get some screengrabs of the orange '69 Charger in it. While I was watching the scenes near the start of the race, I thought I saw the house from 'Psycho' in the background. A quick Google later and I found myself on the forum of a site called 'knightrideronline', plowing through a thread similar to Hazzard Square for Knight Rider (with a similar number of posts, I can now appreciate what Hazzard Square looks like to newcomers). You can see the original thread here, and the newer episode-by-episode guide here. I quickly confirmed that I had seen the 'Psycho' house, and that it featured close-up in another episode.
While I was there, it seemed silly not to look for Dukes locations, since they were filmed at about the same time. Although Knight Rider used a much wider range of locations, they did go to Santa Clarita a few times. I also spotted a very short clip that was filmed on the bridge on East Carlisle Road (see this post for how it looked it Dukes). I'd nearly given up hope of finding more when I saw this post, which included a screengrab similar to the one below from the pilot episode, 'Knight Of The Phoenix'.
Firstly, the road and wall with trees (behind the white pickup) looked familiar. Then I read "Doesn't look like the gas station is a Shell anymore". Look back to the first picture in this post and you'll see the wall and trees behind the General, and a Shell sign peeking over the hospital roof on the right. The address of the gas station was listed as "Lyons Ave & Fourl Rd in Santa Clarita", so I quickly looked it up on Google Maps (see color map below). The gas station has been remodeled since Knight Rider, and is now run by Arco - I've labeled it as "2" on the map. I initially had no luck finding the hospital building, but then I decided to look up an aerial picture from 1980 (below left). The building I've marked "1" looked like it fitted the bill for the hospital, but, as you can see, the center area has been redeveloped over time (all the rest looks virtually unchanged). I've failed to find any pictures of the old building, and seeing as it's no longer extant, I'm going to put my case together using lots of small pieces of evidence.
Here's another screengrab from Knight Rider which shows that it was a Shell station in the early '80s.
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This song was the subject of a back-to-back comparison on the radio this week. They pitted
against a vocal version by Side Effects. While both are good, I found myself craving the vocals of Jocelyn Brown on the version I've known for longest:I have a sneakin' suspicion I've posted this one already but...Roger posted it nearly four years ago, so you're OK
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Well this is not a review or anything for last race or next race, but figured since we are off topic anyways, I would post this video here. Jeff Gordon had this on his web site and then someone else posted this link on Twitter. This video cracks me up...never thought of Jeff Gordon as a prankster, but perhaps he is after all. Bet the car salesman had a lot to talk about after Jeff Gordon's test drive.
Sorry to burst anyone's bubble on this one, but the salesman is an actor, and most of the driving was done by Brad Noffsinger (from the Richard Petty Driving Experience). Read more on Snopes.
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I think I'll stay out of the gun debate too - I'm just glad they don't do background checks before you join HNet
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Good to see Ricky getting a better start this week.
Garrett, are you sure Scott Speed is starting 43rd? NASCAR.com has Timmy Hill in 43rd with both the Scotts failing to qualify.