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I liked Mary-Margaret Humes aka. Tinker from 'Mason Dixon's Girls', although I'll be adding more as I remember them .

HA!!! HA!! HA!!!  This sounds just like the place I live in! NOBODY uses turn signals, stop signs and stop lights are optional and nobody even knows rear view mirrors exist! ( They will turn right over in front of you !!)

Well now the Bandit Trans am and other late 2nd gen Firebird/Trans Ams have joined the 1968-70 charger in the unobtainable price range Crazy Money Turning ‘70s Pontiac Trans Ams Into $100,000 Cars With Burt's going for $550,000 Burt Reynolds' Trans Am sells for $550K at Barrett-Jackson

Hey, don't knock it. I made an apple, a kite, a dead rat, twelve marbles, part of a jews-harp, a piece of blue bottle-glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire-crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass doorknob, a dog-collar -- but no dog -- the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange-peel, and a dilapidated old window sash out of that deal .

Since enough is never enough, I'm moving on down the road and creating the buildings directly adjacent to the garage- Rhuebottoms General Store and O'Connor's Paint Supply.
 
Unlike the garage set, these buildings were just facades with very little depth.  In fact, O'Connor's Paint Supply was just a front wall attached on one side to a telephone pole type post for stability. 
 
For my model, I'm treating the buildings as 'real' and completing the backs- we saw the back door of Rhuebottoms at least once (using a generic metal shed wall someplace on the Warner lot), so I'll match that.  We did see the inside of Rhuebottoms store a couple times (as well as the store room where Boss was stashing stolen fur coats), but I won't be adding interior details like I did with the garage.  These buildings are just to add 'atmosphere' next to the garage and provide additional locations for some more model cars, trucks, and my Rhuebottoms delivery van.
 
I'm using HossC's excellent drawings as my starting point!
 
Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr​
 
blueline by mommydawn2000, on Flickr​

Current 36 race schedule has been used since 2001 though we lost a few great tracks just so other lame tracks could have an extra date, 1999-2000 was 34 races before then it varied 29-32 races a year. 
 
I'm glad Jeff Gordon won @ Martinsville but what Matt Kenseth did was just stupid, glad Nascar parked him for 2 races. This is the first year in a long time where I didn't care to watch all the races, the Chase is such a joke as of late and with Nascar changing the rules every week it feels like watching "Pro" wrestling. Look what they did @ Talladega Greg Biffle was leading and Nascar dragged the caution out till he ran out of fuel then all of the sudden "we're going green this lap" The finish of that race felt like WWE's Royal Rumble match. 

OK, here we go!  Flickr problem solved, here are some pics from the model at the Hazzard Run last weekend:
 
Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr​
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This one is fun- little Enos in the foreground, big Enos in the background!
 

I couldn't really do a 2015 makeover of the Double Zero without also doing Amy Creavy's Mustang. I've left off some of the original's chrome parts because I think the all black color scheme looks better.

How time flies! I was going to start this post by saying that I recently posted a picture of an updated General Lee based on a stretched Dodge Challenger. It turns out I actually posted that in May 2014 - you can see it here. Then, completely by chance, I came across mock-ups of modern versions of the Double Zero and Cooter's Camaro at the weekend. You can see them here. Inspired by these pictures, I decided to do my own updated Double Zero based on a 2015 Mustang. I thought it looked better with less chrome than the original, although I did add a ring around the grille. I also toyed with additional fog lights in the grille (similar to the original), but eventually left them out.
 

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 .

Awesome. Just amazing what you can do with a paint program. 

So I'm takin the model to Gatlinburg for the Hazzard Run next week, and Ben Jones writes me to ask if they can put pictures up of it on his Cooter's Place facebook page.  Of course I said yes, and he did a really great write up for it; I'm humbled by it.
 
FB post by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

A while ago, Mark B asked me if I'd ever done a front and back view of Cooter's van from 'Uncle Boss'. At the time I hadn't, but now I have .
 
There are still very few reference photos available, so I just had to do my best from screengrabs. I've also tweaked the original side view to fix some minor details.
 

Some nice words I got today from Cooter himself:
 
"Alma and I are just blown away by your work.
It is fantastic, and that is not a word I use very often.
You continue to capture the reality with an accuracy that is in fact
heightened by its "unreality', i.e., the dream world of re-creation.

We are even more astonished that you are capturing the essence of
the garage and the spirit of the show at such a minute scale. You
have a remarkable gift. To me, you have created a work of serious
art. There is no other word for it.

I am having deja vu looking at these pictures. Bravo. Bravo!

Ben Jones"

Well, today's Hungarian GP sure didn't turn out like that. A win for Ferrari, and Red Bull filling the other two podium places. Mercedes could only manage sixth and eighth in an incident-packed race.

Seeing as this thread has been revived, I thought I'd refresh my original artwork. I was never happy with the shade of yellow I ended up with, and the wheels are wrong. This is only a light makeover - I've removed the black outlines, removed the chrome from the wheel arches, and added the chrome panel under the door. The bumpers and side markers have been completely re-done and I'm now happier with the wheels and body color. I might refresh the front and back views in the future.



There are a few General Grant pictures online, with various numbers on their doors. I've stuck with "76" like the car in the video posted by Roth.