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All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
Now I've listened to this I'll have to watch 'Withnail & I' again
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I was making my way through season 4 looking for patrol cars when I spotted this one in 'Pin the Tail on the Dukes'. About ten minutes into the show Hector takes Mr. Rhuebottom's van and Bo and Luke return it so he doesn't get into trouble. Here's the van as Bo and Luke park up opposite Cooter's:
When Rosco follows them into the Square and pulls up in front of the van all the signage on the side has disappeared. The signage on the other side is present when Rosco confronts the Duke boys, and the signage reappears on this side when they drive off with Cooter.
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Hmmm, I never saw the "Blues Brothers".
What's that thing on the roof?
It looks like someone done went and stole the Liberty Bell.
Tut-tut Roger, you really should watch it. There's comedy, car chases and great music. Imagine if Rosco's Celebrity Speed Trap was used to catch some of the best soul and blues musicians and they were put into a movie - there's James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway, Ray Charles, I could go on. There's also one of my favorite movie lines at 'Bob's County Bunker':
To answer your question, "that thing on the roof" is a speaker that they took from a high pole at a kids' playground:
They rigged up a microphone:
And went up north "to put the word on the streets":
I also Photoshopped the speaker onto The General for a Blues Brothers parody in another thread a few months back.
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Welcome back to HNet Tammy. The song you are looking for is the theme to the 1997 'Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion!' movie. You can currently pick up a copy on Amazon for under $7 (and that includes 'Hazzard in Hollywood' too!):
The Dukes of Hazzard Two Movie Collection (Reunion! / Hazzard in Hollywood)
I've never seen the song commercially available, but you can listen/download it from here:
TelevisionTunes.com: Tom Wopat and John Schneider - Carryin on Like We Did Before
(Click the down arrow to the left of the Twitter/Facebook icons)
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Jake01 is quite right - I had missed this 1974 Ford Torino in 'Follow That Still' (see footnote of this post). It's meant to be an ATF car, but the badge on the door doesn't look anything like the ATF logos I could find on Google. While I was looking up the ATF logos it reminded me of a sketch by Sacha Baron Cohen aka. Borat, Brüno, Frenchy in 'Talladega Nights'. In the sketch he visits the ATF as another alter ego, Ali G. The questioning goes something like "So what does ATF stand for?", "Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives", "And what else does you sell?". You can see the sketch
- just remember that the ATF guys are expecting a serious interview.
If I can drag myself off that tangent and back to the case in hand, this US Marshal's car appears right at the end of 'Trouble at Cooter's'. This is all we get to see of it, but going by the tail lights it appears to be a 1978 Pontiac Catalina. For some reason the badges on the uniform and on the car door (see insets) both spell Marshal as "Marshall". Does anyone know of a reason for this, or is the guy moonlighting as an amplifier salesman?. Neither of the badges is an authentic US Marshals' badge.
Back to regular patrol cars now, and I believe that 'Goodbye General Lee' mark's the first appearance of a 1977/78 Plymouth Fury in the Hazzard Sheriff's livery - I'm sure someone will tell me if I'm mistaken. They swap around a bit because the Dodge Monacos are back for 'Hughie Hogg Strikes Again'.
Lastly for this post is another ATF car. This one appears in 'Hughie Hogg Strikes Again'. For this episode the car is a 1973 Plymouth Fury and the badges (as best I can see) are similar to the real ATF logo. I'm sorry that the image is a little blurry but the only time the car is seen stationary is after it flips over - maybe that's why they used an older car.
Originally this thread was just going to be for police vehicles, but I've expanded my remit to include other non-civilian cars. Some of these are easy to miss (as Jake01 discovered) because they only appear very briefly, so if I leave any out as I go through the seasons I hope y'all will be sure to tell me. I suppose under the new criteria I should have included the President's Limo. I could go back to get a picture if y'all feel it belongs here.
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This commercial is ten years old, but I've been listening to the music again recently. It's a UK commercial for Coca-Cola:
When it came out I liked the tune, found out that it was Pierre Henry's 'Psyche Rock', and bought it on a compilation CD a few months later. Because it was a Fatboy Slim remix I never questioned its age, and only recently found out that the original dates back to 1967. If it sounds familiar it may be because Christopher Tyng was heavily inspired by the tune when he wrote the Futurama theme.
Christopher Tyng must have liked late '60s music because the Futurama theme also samples The Winstons' 'Amen, Brother' from 1969. The six second drum break, known as the 'Amen Break', that appears at 1:27 has been used on hundreds (literally) of hip-hop, rave, ragga, jungle and acid house tracks.
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There's links to the 'Home Improvement' episodes in this post.
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From the album "I Started Out with Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left". In another thread I suggested this guy as a possible new Uncle Jesse. He already has the beard and his tour bus is an old van with a wood stove in the back. He also has some interesting guitars; one only has one string and another is made of two hubcaps welded together. I would say that it's a shame he doesn't play country, but when he plays blues this good, why complain?
.- Billy Preston (one of my faves... left us too soon)Thanks for this one Mufn. The only Billy Preston track I have is the very funky
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It's been ages since I've added anything new to this thread, and this is a sign that I've been planning to do for a while. I'll make it a late tribute to stuntman Al Wyatt Jr.
Here's Al in a rare on-screen appearance as the unfortunate bakery delivery driver in 'Cletus Falls in Love'.
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The Blues Brothers in 1980 with the actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi also has the cars of the polices!
The 'Bluesmobile' was a 1974 Dodge Monaco, and it was very tatty considering that it was only six years old when the movie was made.
If you've been following The Patrol Cars In Pictures thread you'll know that a very similar 1975 Dodge Monaco appeared as a Hazzard patrol car at the start of the first season.
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This song was used for
last year and I never knew what it was. I've never watched Hannah Montana, so that didn't help.
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My mistake Hoss. I saw a story on the news and thought the winter was bad over there. Maybe the story was about eastern Europe.
Roger, I'm not saying you're wrong - just letting you know what it's like here. I think our proximity to the Atlantic helped on this occasion. Some of Eastern Europe, and even places like Italy that are usually warmer than here, had terrible weather. I read a report claiming over 200 people had died across Europe as tempertures plunged to -20C (-4F). Even in Britain they had temperatures down to -16C (3.2F). I guess we got away lightly.
Sadly, as I'm writing this the news is reporting that over 30 people have died in tornadoes across the Midwestern US. And we complain about the amount of rain we get!.
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Jake, I took a look at your screengrabs and took a few myself. The Capitol City car that appears in 'Big Brothers, Duke' looks exactly like one of Sheriff Little's Chickasaw cars, but without the fangs at the front. The badge on the door is a 7-pointed star with the word "POLICE" in the center and the words "CAPITOL" and "CITY" in a circle. That's all the detail I could see, so there's not enough to reproduce it here.
The Capitol City car that appears in 'Happy Birthday, General Lee' has the same color scheme but a different badge. It gets a lot more screentime, and the details are easier to see. You'll recognize the badge as being very similar to the State Police car that I did in this post back on page 1 of this thread. Because the car appears in the flashback sequence it has the beacon style lightbar with a center speaker. Unlike most of the patrol cars in Dukes this one does not have the ring of holes on the hubcaps. I think I got the color a bit closer here than I did with Sheriff Little's car. I might have to go back and subtly change that when no ones looking
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I think the folks across the pond have had a rough winter though.
We've had a very mild winter here. We left it very late last year before we turned the heating on. The last couple of weeks have seen temperatures in the high 50s or low 60s. Some parts of the UK had snow in late January, but it didn't last long. We haven't had any here.
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Here's a couple of continuity errors I spotted in 'Happy Birthday, General Lee'. The first is the lights on the Capitol City patrol car. When it first chases the black Charger the blue light is above the driver, but a few seconds later, and in every other appearance, the red light is on the driver's side:
The second is the black Charger itself. When it's nudged off the road by the Capitol City patrol car it takes a hard knock to the driver's door that leaves a big dent. It comes to rest after a hard impact to the front passenger corner. It also has a very glossy paint finish.
When Bo and Luke pick up the car from the scrapyard the driver's door has miraculously been repaired. The front end damage is worse on the driver's side and the car now has a distinctly matt finish that cannot be put down to dust.
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CD, you're probably too young to remember a BBC (and later ITV) comedy show called 'The Goodies'. It was very popular when it aired through the '70s and early '80s (according to Wikipedia it was shown on syndication and PBS in the US around the same time), but sadly never gets re-runs. Anyway, the reason I bring them up is that there were three of them and they were famous for riding a trandem. Maybe you can try one of these if the tandem works out ok
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Like you, I've never ridden a tandem, but I did ride a quadracycle (aka. quadricycle) in about 1980. They were briefly popular for hourly rental at some British seaside resorts around that time. The one I rode didn't have the kids' seats at the front, but was otherwise very similar to this one:
Do you have enough bike parts to make one?.
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Welcome to HNet. I'll bet that you're not the only Dukes fan where you live, but it can seem like that sometimes
. I know HNet has other members in Texas (and I'm aware how big Texas is).What do you have in your collection?.
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I actually did the Hatchapee County logo a while back, but never put it on a patrol car or posted it. I'll have to see if any of the episodes with Capitol City cars show their badges clearly enough to reproduce.
The first car below is Sheriff 'Spike' Loomis's patrol car from 'Days of Shine and Roses'. Hatchapee County had at least three patrol cars in that episode, but only Sheriff Loomis's car had the 'shine jugs stenciled on the front fender. I counted 13 jugs including the last one that he added at the start of the episode (that's why the last one is slightly larger and a slightly different color). The car has chrome rocker panels and chrome trim around the wheel arches. It also had the wider side trim with a black stripe down the center and the squarer design of lightbar. You can see a screengrab of the car in The Patrol Cars In Pictures thread.
The second picture is a Hatchapee car from 'Twin Trouble'. The badge is the same, but they are now using blue and white cars instead of the original black and white. I don't think that we ever get to see the front of the patrol car in this episode, but I think the tail lights suggest a 1975 Fury whereas Sheriff Loomis's car was a 1977 Monaco.
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Alex, you're meant to keep at least one word in the song title the same, not the band.
I Say Nothing - Voice of the Beehive
I can't believe that it was about 20 years ago that I saw this band. I was sorting through some stuff recently and found a huge poster that I'd bought at the gig.
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That's an interesting new project you've got there. I knew a guy who used to build and ride these 25 years ago. At the time I'd never seen anything like them. I got a chance to ride one about 10 years ago. They say you never forget how to ride a bicycle, but you have to learn again on one of these
.I understand that cost dictates the use of an old bike as a starting point, but the height of the seat makes it look like it'll have a high center of gravity for this type cycle.
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I think I got to about half distance before I had to call it a night - it was just too late for me. How Danica slipped between the other two cars in the early accident I'll never know. I thought Jeff Gordon might have a good race after he briefly led, but then I saw his engine go not long before I had to turn off. I saw a video of JPM's crash this morning - that delay really would have made a late night of it if I'd tried to stay up.
I still have to wait until the 18th of March for the first race of the F1 season, and seeing as it's back to its usual starting point of Australia it will be a late night/early morning for me!.
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My first car was a 1984 Mk I Ford Orion - basically a European Mk III Ford Escort with a trunk. Unlike the picture below, which shows the top-of-the-range Ghia model, mine was a tatty mid-range version with the grille of an Escort (five horizontal bars instead of three). I think it cost about £300. It gave me my first taste of freedom, but at a price (luckily only financial). The original engine expired, mainly due to the oil and temperature gauges not working. I also had a wheel bearing go at 70mph and didn't know it had gone until I tried to stop and found it had shattered the brakes. It was involved in two accidents while it was parked up, and broken into twice - once to steal my tools from the trunk and once to steal a broken radio. It was sad to see it go, but also a relief.
My current car is 12 years old, and the other day I realized something. There are no vanity license plates in Ireland (unlike the US and UK) so all plates start with the last two digits of the year of issue (followed by a letter or two for the county of issue and a sequential number). My car may not be a blue Mustang with flames, but I can say that I drive a Double Zero
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You may be pleased to know that an article in a British newspaper yesterday said that the Girl Guides in the UK are still signing up new members at the rate of one an hour. I don't remember any stories about politicians interfering over there.
Dukes Of Hazzard Story on youtube
in Dukes of Hazzard News
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Thanks for the link. I knew most of the stories from other sources, but I don't think I've ever see this documentary. I certainly didn't know that cameraman Rodney Mitchell tragically lost his life in 1980. That must've hit everyone hard.
There doesn't seem to be any other mention of Rodney on HNet and his IMDb page only credits his work on Dukes. I did find that his son Lance Mitchell has followed in his father's footsteps and become a cinematographer. You can see his profile here and his IMDb page here.