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You obviously watched the same episode and spotted the same mistake two years ago, Skipper.

Incidentally, I commented on the relative performance of the two cars back in 2020 - see here.

It's been a quiet week, mostly with just me and Skipper here, but I don't think Roger's been on for over a week. He does take a break every so often, but he normally announces them first.

I've just posted a new video that came up full width. It looks like the forum upgrade converted the existing video links to embedded links. The first link below is after the upgrade and the second link is what I originally posted. Strangely, if I try to post the first link, it only shows up as a link and not a video.

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/o3TQnkLHOOs?feature=oembed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3TQnkLHOOs

It's been a quiet week, mostly with just me and Skipper here, but I don't think Roger's been on for over a week. He does take a break every so often, but he normally announces them first.

You're not going to get a google link to show up as an image. I've just hotlinked the image below, so it may disappear when the Amazon listing changes. I doubt that the quality will be great on a $30 hat.

They seem to be showing the episodes nightly at 6pm through the week, but today I found that they repeat those five episodes from 7am on a Saturday morning!

I've just noticed that embedded YouTube videos come up much smaller than they used to (on my laptop). They're only about half of the post width now.
ETA. They seem to take the whole post width on my phone.

If you use a race car as your daily driver you're probably trying new parts regularly, so the car may not always be at peak performance.

The white line above the signature works much better for me - thank you. I hadn't realized that signatures don't show up on my phone. The extra lines on the All Activity page look great on my phone, but make the screen look busy on my laptop. I don't know if there's any compromise. Overall though it's definitely an improvement.

A 5.3l V12 1971 Jaguar XK-E (or E-Type if you live outside North America). In standard spec, the Jag was over a second slower to 60mph compared to a 1969 Charger R/T with a V8 Hemi and 3-speed auto transmission, but their top speeds were very similar. Obviously, the General was a race car, so should have been faster than stock.

Here's how Top Gear paid tribute to the E-Type on its 50th birthday back in 2011 (with just a touch of patriotism):
 
 

You obviously watched the same episode and spotted the same mistake two years ago, Skipper.

Incidentally, I commented on the relative performance of the two cars back in 2020 - see here.

Meadowmufn, is there any chance that you could make the line that separates the main post from the signature either lighter, thicker or both? The same would apply to the line between posts in All Activity. If you lighten it, you could use the same color on the left of quotes. At the moment my eyes sometimes struggle to separate things.

It has a long history:

https://tearunners.com/blogs/news/tea-with-a-slice-of-lemon-history-benefits

...it's always the same! 🙂

Nervous

...it's always the same! 🙂

Nervous

I'll only be able to get home from work in time for the second half of each episode, but it's great that they're showing it. Hopefully, they'll get further than when it was shown on the now defunct Forces TV channel a few years ago. I think they only got to season 3.

At the end of tonight's episode, the announcer said something like, "You can see more of Lucas and Beauregard at the same time tomorrow." 😀

I have all four of the original movies and the Lindsay Lohan reboot on DVD. I saw at least one of the at the cinema when I was a kid, but not this one as it's older than me!

Skipper - don't start a new thread for each movie. Keep franchises together. All the Herbie movies can be discussed here.

Thank you so much, Meadowmufn. I went to bed last night with an uninspiring black & gray HazzardNet and I woke up to familiar colors. I'm still getting used to some of the layout differences, but that doesn't seem such a chore now I'm not working in monochrome. I know it was my suggestion to lose the uppercase letters in the menus, but it looks much better now.

ETA. I forgot to mention that the featured topics having tiles at the top of the old format listed forums seems like a good compromise (when I click on Forums) I've only had a very brief look at HazzardNet on my phone today, but it also has color again!

I'll hold my hands up - I'm not great with change. I've lived with the new layout for 48 hours now, and it's still not gelling with me. I completely understand the need for the upgrade and appreciate the work put in by Meadowmufn, but the site feels like it's lost its identity.

The default scheme on my laptop is a really bright background (white or almost white) with gray text which I find hard to read. I switched to the HazzardNet theme which allowed me to select Dark Mode, but that loses the HazzardNet header. On my phone, dark seems to be the only option, and again the header is missing.

Going to Forums now shows a load a tiles which take longer to scroll down and aren't as clear as the old list format..

Finally for now, I don't like the menus being all in capitals. Capital letters on the internet always feel like shouting.

I remember when the site moved from vBulletin to the last layout and it took some tweaking. Hopefully, it'll be possible to put some of the blue and orange back into the site without too much work.

Just after Dolly's death was announced last week, the King's Guard performed a tribute outside Buckingham Palace.
 

Just after Dolly's death was announced last week, the King's Guard performed a tribute outside Buckingham Palace.
 

Sadly, his death was overshadowed by that of Dolly Parton, and they were the same age. I know him best from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' which featured Susan Sarandon 16 years before 'Thelma and Louise'. He was also in 'The Hunt for Red October', but he looked so different that I missed him when I first saw it at the cinema.
 

Loretta Lynn

Yes, as well as racing cars, Brian Johnson also does this...
 

Yes, as well as racing cars, Brian Johnson also does this...