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The tricky bit comes near the end when you've got loads of Dukes words in, and you need to fill the gaps. In usual crosswords the compilers can choose any words - I was trying to keep to the theme which means there are a couple of clues with slightly tenuous links, and a couple of easy ones too. It pops up ok on my computer when I click the thumbnail - have you tried right-clicking the thumbnail and choosing "Open Link in New Window/Tab"? - I've tried this successfully in Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox (3.6.7) - maybe other people could let me know if they are having problems, I will have to find another way to post it. Anyway, glad you liked it and thanks for the feedback - I have another ready to go if this one proves popular.

Original, hands down. The newer film was alright, but why call it the Italian Job when the plot bears no relation to the original - at least Gone in 60 (Sixty) Seconds had some similarities. Would it have done so well if they'd had to think of a new title? In the original you get a car chase that lasts half the film, and includes loads of impressive stunts that are all done for real by Rémy Julienne and team. You also get Michael Caine saying 'you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off' and that ending ... what more could you ask for? Maybe it's because I'm English - the original is a very English film with the likes of Noel Coward and Benny Hill accompanying Michael Caine (a man, like Sean Connery, who uses the same accent no matter what part he plays).

I enjoyed both of them. For those who haven't seen it, Eleanor in the original movie was a yellow 1973 Mach 1 Mustang (actually a '71 dressed to look like a '73). Both films involve stealing lots of cars to order, but I think that only one scene is copied directly in the newer film - the one with the drugs being blown away by the exhaust (not seen it for a while - jump in if I'm wrong). H.B. Halicki wrote, directed and starred in the original, as well as owning most of the cars used and doing his own stunts. He injured his back during one stunt that went wrong, but liked the footage and kept it in the movie. Amazingly the car is still drivable despite being severly battered. Sadly he died when a water tower stunt went wrong while filming the sequel in 1989. If you've read my post in the hobbies section of the forum you will see I have 1:18 models of both Eleanors. If the choice was between the cars, I'd take the '67 in the newer film.

It's over 2 years since Redneck girl 01 put up a crossword in the Hobbies section, so I thought I'd give it a try. I've tried not to duplicate too many answers with the previous crossword - obviously there will be some easy answers, but hopefully there are at least 1 or 2 to get you thinking. If I've goofed up any clues or numbers please let me know - it's my first crossword, and it's now after midnight here so I'm not as wide awake as I should be when checking it. Grid is below the clues as an attachment. I will post solution in a week or so, or when concensus demands. CLUES Across 3. Rosco's rank (7). 5. See 13 down. 6. Guest county singer Tammy (7). 8. Widow's ____, Hazzard landmark (4). 9. Friend of the Dukes who tricked the boys into delivering illegal firearms (5,5). 12. Surname of Hazzard's post mistress (7). 15. Actor who played Cletus Hogg (4,5). 18 & 4 down. Duke's friend who faked his own death (5,5). 20. Location of County Historical Society Museum and JulieDuke (8,4). 21. If you missed DoH the first time 'round, catch them here (6). 22. Boss Hogg tried to foreclose on Uncle Jesse's one of these (8) 23. See 35 across. 24 & 34 down. Private detective with his girls from season 2 (5,5). 26. First name of Sheriff 'Spike' Loomis (6). 28. Boss hypnotizes Luke to say this to General Lee (7). 31. Boss Hogg's out of town bar/restaurant and office (3,5,4). 33. First name of actress who played Hazzard's post mistress (5). 35 & 23 across. And in that corner, Luke's boxing opponent (7,3). 36 & 10 down. Part-time registrar and chief teller of the Hazzard Bank (5,6). 38. Type of flag on the General's roof (11). 39. Thieves with one arm? (7). 40 & 27 down. Company that made the Dukes of Hazzard (2nd word is abbreviation) (6,4). 41. See 29 down. 42. Hobie Harkins sells this type of cars (4). Down 1. Alternate first name used for Mabel Tillingham at the phone company (6). 2. Lulu Hogg's equality campaign in Share and Share Alike (4). 4. See 18 across. 5. Uncle Jesse used to make this - Boss still does (9). 7. Actor who played Les Sloane in The Runaway and Col. Decker in The A-Team (5,7). 8. What the Duke boys need to go fishing (6). 9. See 25 down. 10. See 36 across. 11. Surname of country singer Loretta who needed to be found (4). 13 & 5 across. Actor who played Vance Duke (11,5). 14. Country singer Johnny told Boss to 'Take This Job And Shove It' (8). 16. Along with Plymouth Fury, most commonly used make & model of patrol car (5,6). 17. First name of Cooter's cousin from season 2 (10). 19. Type of car stolen by Cooter in season 1 (9). 21. Uncle Jesse is (was) a member of this troublesome group of senior citizens (5,7). 25 & 9 down. Actor who played Enos Strate (5,7). 27. See 40 across. 29 & 41 across. Flash's breed (6,5). 30. Boss hypnotizes Daisy to believe she is this to Carter Stewart's fortune (7). 32. First name of actor who played Coy Duke (5). 34. See 24 across. 37. The Green Machine in season 5 was this (4).

Saw this on my travels in Ireland. This type of road is known as a boreen (from the Irish bóithrín, meaning a small road). They are narrow, country roads that are covered in Tarmac, but often have grass growing down the middle. The sign is "No overtaking".

If you remember, at the beginning of that episode Rosco was filling in his diary and trying to lie about how much Boss pays him - every time he exagerated the amount Flash would bark until he finally got realistic. With all Boss's schemes in it, no wonder Flash hated the diary.

I'd like to see Rosco catch the Dukes if they were driving that. By the way, there's another Dukes connection on this page - directly below John's picture is Ernie Hudson who played Avery in Dear Diary in season 4.

Good film, I watched it recently. Capt_Redneck was correct in identifying the main car as a '69 Dodge Charger, but 3 cars were used: 1969 Charger R/T; 1969 Charger (non-R/T); 1968 Charger. I think the '68 was only shown from the front, but the car clearly loses its split grille in some scenes.

Thought I'd put up a couple of pics of Sorrell before he became Boss Hogg. The first is from a Dukes book I have. In 1962 he played the title role in the musical (stage production) of 'Fiorello!'. The second is from one of his 2 appearances as Gen. Wilson Spaulding Barker in the first season of MASH in 1972.

On the DVD commentary John mentions the balloons were put in front of the banner to cover something up, but he couldn't remember what.

Couldn't wait - it's been bugging me that I couldn't find John ever since I found out he was in SATB (Ben and Sonny are a lot easier to spot). Got home, found DVD, then searched this forum and found MaryAnne had posted some screenshots from SATB a few years ago, but sadly they're not there anymore. So I had to resort to Google which took me to CGLFC's website for the answer. These are grabs off my DVD which is from the region 2 Pursuit Pack. Despite the guy in the white shirt looking like Bo, John is apparently the guy in the dark shirt with the black cowboy hat on (thanks for the pointers dukefan1, I'm sure you knew that already). That's another of life's great mysteries solved - I think I need a lie down now:).

Tell me about it. One of my relatives from Barnsley moved to France and married a Frenchman. The kids were raised speaking French and English, but when they started learning English at school their teacher couldn't understand their broad Yorkshire accents, so they virtually had to start from scratch:).

I know it's not sunny daylight 100% of the time - if it never rained, how would the Hazzard carwash ever fill up:). I was generalising a bit, but in the main you have to admit 'sunny daylight' covers most of the episodes. I stand to be corrected, but I don't remember seeing the General's headlights on (until one of the recent films), and only saw the covers raised occasionally. Of course Repo Men was one of the episodes filmed in Georgia, so rain was more likely.

I've known for a while that John was in SATB - I think he mentions it on one of the DVD extras - but never managed to spot him. Now I know which scene to look in I'll dig the DVD out and watch it again (after I get to the end of DoH season 4 - it'll give me time to prepare for Coy and Vance:)). Are there any screen grabs of his appearance on this site? - I'm fairly new here, and ploughing through the threads as quickly as I can.

Afraid it's a soft-top - the one from The Spy Who Shagged Me. Box doesn't give a year, and the net gives it anywhere from '65-'67. According to IMCDb the car in the movie was a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray [C2]. The Mako Shark is another soft-top, and from '61, but it's the gorgeously detailed AutoArt version. Forgot to mention in original post, I also have a model of a 1955 Chevy 3100 pickup. It came in Teal, but I'm in the process of converting it to the beige truck Clint Eastwood drove in Every Which Way But Loose complete with toolbox, new mirrors, seat and bumpers. It's my first custom job, and it's on the back burner at present. Maybe I'll get back to it after the summer.

Well they managed to find room for the nearby Pencil Museum (www.pencilmuseum.co.uk if there are non-believers out there). Didn't have time to visit it as I wanted to go to the house used as Uncle Monty's cottage in 'Withnail and I' just down the road in Shap - it was sold a couple of months later. Also stocked up on Kendal Mint Cake. I was born in Dorset (think there's another forum member from that neck of the woods) but am Yorkshire on my father's side, and visited the Barnsley area regularly when I was younger. Just remembered - I actually visited Barnsley and Sheffield on the way back from Keswick.

Didn't know whether to post this here or in Hobbies - I'm sure the forum mods can move it if they wish. Since getting CorelDraw I've been playing around with vector-based artwork, and thought I'd have a crack at General Lee. It's still work-in-progress as I keep thinking of details to add/change. Basically it's a mixture of styles - crossed flags from Geogia episodes, wider nudge bar, red Georgia plates, headrests from Lee 1, white letter tyres etc., but being vector-based they're all easily changable. If anyone has Corel or Illustrator and is interested, please PM me and i'll email you a copy. Alternatively I could send a PDF if you just want a print out (if anyone has 1.65Mb of online storage they could make it downloadable). I've included a couple of smallish jpegs to look at. If you spot any glaring errors, please let me know (politely) - constructive feedback is always appreciated. I've also done the Boars Nest sign, and am currently working on a single view of a Plymouth Fury Hazzard sheriff's car. Non DoH cars I've done (all single view) are: 1966 Mustang; 1970 El Camino; Starsky & Hutch Torino (1/2 finished); Christine (nearly finished).

I know several other posts make passing reference to die cast cars, and I'm sure everyone has at least one model of the General at home, but I want to know what else you have in you model garage. My collection is all 1:18, mainly Ertl with a few AutoArt and Shelby Collectibles: TV/Movie Cars Gone In 60 Seconds (Original) Eleanor (1973 Mustang) Gone In 60 Seconds Eleanor (1967 Mustang) Bullitt 1968 Mustang Bullitt 1968 Charger Dukes Of Hazzard General Lee (Authentics) Dukes Of Hazzard General Lee (Authentics) Black Dukes Of Hazzard General Lee (Race Day) Dukes Of Hazzard General Lee (Black) Dukes Of Hazzard Double Zero 1968 Mustang Christine Ghostbusters Ecto-1 Smokey And The Bandit 1977 Trans-Am Vanishing Point 1970 Challenger Herbie James Bond Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 James Bond For Your Eyes Only Lotus Esprit Turbo Austin Powers Jaguar E-Type (XK-E) Austin Powers Corvette Dazed And Confused White Lightning (Trans-Am) Blues Brothers Blues Mobile Starsky & Hutch Gran Torino (Barris Edition) Standard Road Cars 1965 Mustang GT350 Convertible (Chase Car) 1966 Mustang GT350 1969 Mustang Boss 429 (Chase Car) 1970 Mustang Boss 302 1971 Mustang Mach 1 2007 Mustang GT500 (Same paint scheme as '67 Eleanor) 2008 Mustang GT500 KR (New KITT) 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge 1970 Plymouth AAR Cuda 1968 Dodge Charger R/T (Chase Car) 1970 Dodge Charger R/T 1971 Dodge Charger R/T (Matco Tools) 1967 Camaro Z28 1969 Mercury Cougar Eliminator 1970 Chevelle SS 396 (box says 396, fender says 454) 1970 El Camino SS 454 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner (Like Daisy's, but Plum Crazy Purple) 1969 Hurst Olds Corvette Mako Shark Lamborghini Miura SV Sierra Cosworth RS Mercedes 500 SEC BMW M 635 CSI Ferrari 250 GT California (Similar to Ferris Bueller's Ferrari) There are still a few others I want to add if it weren't for money/space limitations - most a stored in boxes as I can only show about 8 at a time:(.

Strange what WB will sue over. I used to do work for a guy in London who built TV sets. His company logo was based on his intials - NB - and although it was noticably different, WB sent him a letter asking (maybe asking is the wrong word here) him to change it because they said it was too close to theirs.

Just wondering who everybody's favourite (I'm English - we spell it that way:)) guest stars/cameos were. I mentioned in another post that mine were Henry Gibson, Charles Napier and Robert Alda. They all looked like they enjoyed playing their parts. It was also good to see Mel Tillis who was in a few films around that time including Cannonball Run, SATB 2, and Every Which Way But Loose. There were also dozens of familiar faces, mainly crooks, who have me diving for IMDb to find out where I know them from (am I the only one who does this?). Usually it turns out they were in one or more of the following: A-Team; Knight Rider; CHiPs; Fall Guy etc.

Visited the Cars of the Stars museum in Keswick in late 2008. He's got some great vehicles, but could do with some more space to show them at their best (I think there are more in storage). I was also disappointed that no photography was allowed inside unless you spent about £40 in the gift shop.

Way back in the days of 486s and early Pentiums I used to build PCs part time. I still remember a Soyo motherboard manual that had been translated into "English". In the days before USBs and Plug n Pray (sic) computers everything was set up with little jumpers. In the manual section for setting the Com ports it contained the line "??? I do not understand this bit ???". If the guy writing the manual doesn't get it, what chance did I have? @i1976 When I studied programming we were always told "you can make software foolproof, but not damn-foolproof". @countrygirl1986 I guess the coffee container warnings came after McDonald's lost $640,000 in a famous 1994 lawsuit. @DukesForever1980 I tried taking Preparation H orally and it was useless - for all the good it did, I may as well as stuck it up my a...

If you're looking for a real "Country Roads Shocker" then check out the 2002 dance (yes dance!) cover by Dutch group Hermes House Band. I have it on an obscure 'Summer Hits' CD - it's on YouTube is anyone's interested.