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This is off-topic, but there is a motorsport link, and I thought the story was worth sharing.
Anyone who follows Champ Cars/CART racing may remember an Italian driver called Alex Zanardi. He competed in Formula 1 between 1991 and 1994 before switching to the North American series. He won the Champ Car championship twice for Chip Ganassi Racing in 1997 and 1998. After a brief return to F1 he was taking part in a 2001 Champ Car World Series race in Germany when he was involved in a horrific accident that resulted in the loss of both of his legs.
Alex wasn't content with his artificial legs, so he designed and built his own. He also returned to motor racing in a car adapted with hand controls. The reason I'm bringing this up now is that earlier today he claimed a gold medal at the Paralympics in the 16-kilometre H4 handcycling time trial (he won by 27 seconds!). Ironically, the event took place at Brands Hatch, a motor racing circuit in the south east of England where he competed in one of his early Formula 3000 races back in 1991. He's in action again on Friday. You can read more here.
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It's been a while since anyone added to this thread, and no one took the bait to post the Bob Dylan song I hinted at in 'Musical Chairs' the other day, so here it is:
This is the full eight and a half minute version. You can read the story behind the song here.
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From 'Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey':
Somewhere I still have the 12" picture disc like the one in
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Good choice Capt., you've reminded me of a Bob Dylan song that I may have to play out-of-turn in the 'One Word Song Titles' thread (if no one beats me to it
).Garrett's choice reminded me of a different song with the same name.
The video is from the British soul/funk group's 2010 appearance on the Letterman show. Apparently it was the first time Dave ever asked for an encore!
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Thanks for the summary Garrett. I made it up to about lap 175, but it was too late for me to see the end. I looked up some of the highlights on NASCAR.com this morning and checked the full result list. I see Danica made it to the end this time, even if it was a few laps down. With Home Depot ending their sponsorship of the #14 car and the Army pulling their sponsorship of the #39 that leaves Danica with the only fully funded car in the Stewart-Haas team next year.
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Welcome to HNet.
The original Duke Farm was dismantled last year because it was unsafe. The contractor sold off various parts of it. You can read some more about the dismantling in this thread.
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I don't like relying on words like "the" for the links, or playing out of turn, but I've just heard the sad news that songwriter Hal David has passed away at the age of 91, and I wanted to post one of his songs. Unsurprisingly, I picked one where he wrote the words and Burt Bacharach wrote the music. Enjoy
:The Look Of Love - Dusty Springfield
RIP Harold Lane "Hal" David (May 25, 1921 – September 1, 2012).
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After seeing Garrett's recent question about fan fic writing and reading the replies it struck me that my feelings about my fan art aren't much different. Just like the fan fic authors, I also feel the need to revisit old projects now and then with a view to improving them. Sometimes I spot the equivalent of a typo, other times there are whole sections that need to be "rewritten" and parts that need fleshing out with more detail. A few months ago my General Lee artwork got a makeover, and now it's time for the Double Zero.
To be honest, I always thought the color of my original was too bright. I also knew that the rear view needed some work. When I took a second look I was surprised at just how inaccurate my first version had turned out. In the end I replaced well over half of the elements and did some sort of modification (color/shape etc.) to most of the others. The "GT" badge on the front fender is one of only a few components of the original that survived untouched!
I've tried to make this one a more accurate representation of the one that appeared on-screen. The revised color and shape are obvious changes, but I've made some others too:
Aerial added on front fender
Passenger door mirror removed
White lettering on tires removed
Chrome trim around wheel arches removed
Rear bumper guards removed
Rear side marker replaced with correct, body-colored surround
Now that I've updated my 1968 Mustang artwork, I'm sure my next update won't be much of a surprise to y'all
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Congratulations JPB - not a bad way to celebrate your birthday
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There seemed to some disappointment that Hazzard didn't have a fancier welcome sign, so I thought I'd fix that. Also, amongst the current speculation about the possible censorship of the General's flag I felt we needed a positive image to remind us why we're here!
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I always thought that 'Life of Brian' was rated 18 because it was about the life of a HazzardNet moderator
.I suppose I should add "Down with this sort of thing" and "Careful now".
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Curt Hart just shared a link over on the Facebook page to Ben Jones's opinion on the matter:
DUKES OF HAZZARD’S “COOTER†BLASTS “P.C. IDIOCY†AT WARNER BROS. TV
It includes the email address of Warner's licensing department so you can give them your opinion.
Has it not occurred to Warner Bros that removing the flag WILL offend a large number of fans? It seems odd to me that we now live in a world where the POSSIBILITY of offending a small number of people outweighs ACTUALLY offending a much bigger number. I guess I'll have to stop buying any DVDs, CDs and merchandise produced or licensed by WB in case they accidentally offend me!
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BL and Hoss had different answers and both missed it. By now I'm sure you know it was tires since cell phones weren't around.
Don't do that to me, Roger!. I thought that I must've left Witzell's out of the Hazzard Square thread when you said it was a tire company (unless it got mentioned when Coy, Vance and Cooter were looking for the Mean Green Machine). Luckily, I found that it appeared in one of season 7's much-loved model stunt sequences. Maybe I should do a post in the Hazzard Square thread with the businesses that appear in those model sequences, just for completeness.
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your latest question. I've got about halfway through season 7 looking for pictures of patrol cars, and I don't think I've seen him yet. It's been ages since I've seen the later episodes.
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BL's probably right, but I'm going for A) fruit and vegetables.
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I'm skipping back to a previous location today, so I'll keep it short! If I'd re-watched the episodes in order I'd have spotted this sooner.
I've had a couple of pictures from 'Find Loretta Lynn' hanging around for a while that I hadn't been able to identify. The scene is after the kidnapping when Squirt goes off to make a phone call. The car drives past an open area ...
... and pulls up in front of Delaney's garage.
It wasn't until I re-watched 'Officer Daisy Duke' (the previous episode) that I tied it all together. In this picture you can see the bad guys in front of Delaney's, but in the background you can also see the Hazzard County Stockyard barn where Loretta Lynn's RV was hidden. In fact, as various vehicles drive by, you get several looks at the end of the white buildings that you can see in post #231. That, of course, means we're back at Golden Oaks Ranch. Click the link above and scroll down to post #232 to see the aerial view. Delaney's is the building just below halfway down on the left side.
This last picture is another from 'Find Loretta Lynn', and must have been taken from somewhere near the phone booth. The wooden fence that's just visible between the trees is still there today. Behind that, but not visible in this picture, is the covered bridge. As the camera follows the General from right to left we end up looking in the same direction as the first picture in this post. That view has changed over the years, and is now blocked by trees.
The back of Delaney's would have faced the Boar's Nest, so, by the magic of different camera angles, Loretta Lynn was kidnapped from the Boar's Nest and hidden in a barn right next to it. Then, one of her kidnappers drove to a phone booth right opposite the Boar's Nest to make a phone call!
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I'm going to agree with BL and say 1872 - it definitely wasn't 1901.
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The section of Main street south of the intersection also got used for filming. On the right you can see the post office, while on the left you can just see the white house (mentioned above) where the guy with the binoculars and walkie-talkie watched the race from in 'Luke's Love Story'.
Here's the aforementioned guy in the aforementioned house as seen from Center Street. The staircase that's visible in the picture on the left is now on the south side of the house (it's just off the left of the picture above). When you know the layout of Piru, the guy looks in some strange directions as he follows the action!
The Piru United Methodist Church on Center Street features very briefly during the race in 'Luke's Love Story'.
As promised, here's the road bridge across the creek. This shot is another one from 'Luke's Love Story', but it's also where the Dukes drop off Dewey Stovall at the end of 'Route 7-11'. As you can see from the "now" picture, the bridge is still there, but has been bypassed with a new bridge.
Probably due to the abandonment of the railroad, there wasn't a station building in Piru when Dukes was filmed. The scene in 'Luke's Love Story' where the cars slalom through the trees was filmed at the row of trees between Market Street and the current site of the station. The scenes where Enos's car flips, and the remaining three cars jump the hay bales were both filmed between Market street and the railroad, pretty much where the station is now. I didn't take any screengrabs of these scenes because it's impossible to get "now" pictures from anything like the right angles.
About six miles north of Piru is Lake Piru which also featured as a filming location in later seasons. I may post some pictures of that area in the future.
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Don't worry, you're safe with those
. You can always use the "Search this Thread" option just below the top page numbers if you want to check whether a song has already been posted.
I should've posted this one at the end of last week, but it's still appropriate:
I also have this track with the same name ...
September - Jean Michel Jarre
... although this is dedicated to Dulcie September, a South African anti-apartheid political activist who was assassinated in Paris in 1988.