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Back on page 3 of this thread I tried to identify the black car with the white roof from 'Southern Comfurts': I forgot about it until the other day when I was getting some screengrabs from 'Enos's Last Chance' and spotted the car again: These were the best pictures I could get, but they were enough to identify it as a 1960 Lincoln Continental Mark V (so I was at least one year out ). The back of the roofline looks like it dips slightly in the picture on the left, so it may be a convertible. There's one for sale on ebay at the moment for $35k. Here's what they look like from the front:

I've just watched the crash again on YouTube. To be fair to Said, it looks like he held his line around the outside and Ragan moved across the front of his car (see this video from 4:35 onwards). After seeing the post-race interview it would be easy to assume that Said wrecked Ragan on purpose, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

I was looking forward to the race, and it's a shame I only got to see 25 laps, and several of them under caution. The bit I did see was exciting. It's a pity they won't run in bad weather. When they did the car swap at WGI they had rain at the start of the session and put some wet weather tires on both cars. The F1 cars run in quite bad conditions, but they have the aerodynamic advantage of huge downforce to push them into the track - in theory the cars could drive along the ceiling!. The Biffle/Said fight seemed to get out of hand. I've seen drivers confront each other after a race, and even the odd punch thrown, but I think Boris is taking things a bit far. At least you have a race this weekend, I'm just over halfway through the three week summer break in F1 . It's probably a good idea for the employees - the factories have to shut for two weeks out of the three. It's such a high-tech sport that they'd be working around the clock otherwise. Doesn't mean that I don't miss the racing though. My next race is the weekend after next at the historic Spa-Francorchamps track in Belgium. Like WGI it also has a chicane called the 'Bus Stop' - don't know which one came first. Spa opened in 1920, WGI had it's first race in 1948, but I can't see the Bus Stop on early maps of Spa. Having said that, the original Spa track was over nine miles long and took in a couple of local villages. Due to its location in the Ardennes Forest there's normally a good chance of rain, and I'm looking forward to that .

Two things that are hard to believe: 1) Boss was only charging 5¢ an hour (a nickel an hour or 12 minutes for a penny). I guess they must have been old meters. 2) MaryAnne got a question wrong (as did Roger and BL - sorry). Q. What was the name of the boarding house that featured briefly in 'Enos's Last Chance'?: A) Bear Creek Cottonwood C) Fox Hollow D) Paradise Valley E) Whispering Pines (I found it shared its name with a golf course in Canada, so the other answers are also Canandian golf courses).

Happy to oblige CD. I think you're right, that does look like Scanlon's car in the background, although it's not there when the Dukes get back to town. Here's the scene with a later shot of his car inset. There's a couple of other continuity mistakes in that episode. As Scanlon is driving the patrol car it briefly changes from a Plymouth Fury to an AMC Matador just before it comes up behind the orange truck. After he dumps the patrol car, Scanlon makes off in his green car which clearly has a dent over the rear door handle. The dent has gone next time we see the car. Not too sure about this one. Whoever is playing Enos seems to be reluctant to turn around. This is the best shot I could get, and Cooter's hat blends into his face, making his top lip look bigger. I think you're right, but I'll leave it up to others to decide.

I got to see the last 25 or so laps when I got in from work. I came in just at the point that Denny Hamlin had a bad crash - something broke, locking his front wheel and cutting his brakes. It looked nasty, but he walked away and later praised the 7-point safety belt in his car (some of the others only have 5-point belts). I think they said Jeff Gordon was leading at that time, but the caution came out just when he was due a pit stop. He came back out in about 21st place, quickly got up to 13th, but could get no further. Kyle Busch was leading the restart after Paul Menard hit the barrier with a few laps to go, but got passed by Brad Keselowski and then Marcos Ambrose, who then took the lead. Lots of action in the last lap with David Reutimann's car suddenly appearing upside-down and then Tony Stewart skidding through the 'bus stop'. Boris Said called Greg Biffle unprofessional and claimed he'd been giving the finger when they were side by side. The pair then arranged a post-race meeting over their radios where Said said that Biffle approached him and then ran off behind some big guys. Doesn't sound like this one is over - Said said that wrecking cars on the track wasn't the way to solve it, but not to be surprised if Biffle turns up to a race with a black eye.

Well done Roger, I make that three in a row (and well done to BL as well). Now to today's question. A couple of episodes featured parking meters in Hazzard Square, usually so that Rosco could give out dubious tickets . I have screengrabs from two different episodes (one was 'High Flyin' Dukes', I can't remember the other) that give different time limits (1 hour and 2 hours maximum stay), but the cost of parking was the same. Q. How much was an hour's parking in Hazzard Square?: A) 5¢ 10¢ C) 25¢ D) 50¢

Welcome to HazzardNet. You and the other guys in your group have some cool replica movie cars between you.

Welcome to HNet Wesley, hope you enjoy your stay .

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Well remembered Roger, and the bonus point too . Q. What was the name of Hazzard's alliteratively titled drapery store that appeared in season 1 and some of season 2?.

I measured the distance from your home to Sperryville in Google Earth, and it's about 5000 miles (8000 km) in a straight line (it wouldn't give directions ). I'm much closer - only 3400 miles (5440 km) away! - maybe next year.

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Welcome to HazzardNet Smithy. I assume the game you have is 'The Dukes of Hazzard: Return of the General Lee'. It does not appear in Wikipedia's List of Xbox games compatible with Xbox 360 (or any similar lists I can find), so I guess you'll need to find an original Xbox.

Looks like you didn't need Cooter's tow truck to get you out of that one Roger. It also proves that GLG's grade 12 teacher is right sometimes . Q. Which lawman drove a blue 1959 Cadillac Series 62?. For a bonus point, who did it belong to?.

I keep seeing commercials and forgetting to post them. Here's a couple: The first is another one for opticians SpecSavers. It was shown a lot around the time of the final Shuttle mission: The second is for a mixed fruit drink called Vimto. I loved this stuff in th UK, but it doesn't seem to be available in Ireland . The lowrider reminded me of Cypriano's 'dancing' car from 'Hazzard in Hollywood'. The car is real; just the berries are CGIed: Hello pretty ladies ...

A great chilled-out track for hot summer days. I discovered this track when it was used in the UK hidden camera show 'Trigger Happy TV'. The skydiving video is also fun (skip to 0:57 if you know what a small plane taking off looks like ). I call my taste in music eclectic too - sounds so much better than weird .

You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties - Jona Lewie Originally released in 1980, a new version of this song was used earlier this year on an Ikea advert: - Jona Lewie makes a brief cameo at 0:23 (he's the guy in the suit and dark blue shirt). I've got 40 tracks by Glenn Miller, and that ain't one of them - thanks MaryAnne.

I spotted this one in 'Happy Birthday, General Lee'. Tom directed this episode, but he failed to spot that Rick (the guy in the gray jacket) was partly blocking the 'Scrap Metal' sign for most of this scene, with unfortunate results.

I've been doing some research into this vehicle. Originally I thought it looked like a larger version of the security truck from 'Money to Burn' (or Swamp Molly's arms truck). That's a 1969 Dodge P-200 Step Van. Eventually, after loads of searching, I found a couple of pictures of this van. Apart from the location of the turn signals and lights along the roof it's pretty much the same. It looks like it's quite a rare vehicle. The body is made of aluminum by Flxible Southern, and this one is on a 1966 Chevy P-30 chassis, although other chassis were used. The van on the left of this advert again has the turn signals in a different place, but other than that it's the same.

A beautiful song from the Scottish band with guest vocals by The Blue Nile's Paul Buchanan. The guy with long hair isn't Paul, it's British comedian Peter Kay who also directed the very funny video. As well as sell-out comedy shows, Peter is also known for miming to Tony Christie's hit '(Is This The Way To) Amarillo?' in this charity video released in 2005. It features a who's who of British TV and music personalities from the '70s and '80s (Tony Christie himself appears briefly at about 2:20). When British troops in Iraq made their own version of the video it crashed the Ministry of Defence computers due to the number of downloads (see this article).