Boss JD Hogg

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!

That's a nice model of Jesse's truck!
On the show when they gave a description of a car they would describe it as a blue sedan or a red truck or something generic instead of using the cars actual names.

The cartoon is fun to watch.  The first 13 episodes have Coy and Vance and the next 7 episodes have Bo and Luke.  This was at the time John Schneider and Tom Wopat returned to the regular show and they were simply replaced in the cartoon with no explanation.

I recently tried watching the 2005 movie.  I did say I tried. LOL  It was horrible.  I watched about 30 minutes and turned it off.  I was curious so I'm glad I tried it but I couldn't watch the whole movie.  I'll stick with the TV series and the cartoon.

Boss and Rosco have always been friends.  I won't water down any drinks this time. 

My wife and I watched Smokey and the Bandit on Saturday and watched The Cannonball Run yesterday.  These are 2 of my favorite movies.  Burt Reynolds made the best movies.  He'll be missed.

I don't remember seeing this in an episode.  It could have been a scene that was cut from an episode.

Burt Reynolds passed away today. He and Jimmie were close. I still remember at Jimmie's 75th birthday, he was surprised by a video birthday message from Burt (and Paul Newman too). It was so thoughtful and great. He'll be missed.

Wife & I watched Smokey and the Bandit last night. 1st time she didn't gripe about me popping that movie in the dvd player, I was surprised it wasn't worn out as it's one of my favorite movies so it gets played a lot . I'll probably dig out Hooper and Stroker Ace

I only watched 'Cannonball Run II' about a week before Burt died, so he was obviously on my mind when I attended our version of the Cannonball Run today. Other than a DVD of the first movie, I don't have anything linked to the Cannonball series, so I wore my 'Smokey and the Bandit' T-shirt as a little tribute. RIP Burt - "I'll catch you on the flip side".

If a shop has had it for 2 weeks and can't figure out what's wrong it's time to find a new mechanic. Finding a decent honest mechanic these days isn't easy. The world could sure use a few more Cooter's in it instead of some of the scum that call themselves mechanics. 

Roger,  Here are some pictures of the Richard Petty Car(LEE1) from Repo Men.  It's the Charger that did the first jump that appears at the end of most of the shows openings.
71-56 by Michael Scarola, on Flickr
71-39 by Michael Scarola, on Flickr
71-01 by Michael Scarola, on Flickr
71-02 by Michael Scarola, on Flickr

I have one of these kits.  I haven't built it yet but plan to.  It's white glow in the dark plastic that glows orange.  It's actually accurate to the Charger used in that episode.  It was a white Charger with the orange glow put in in post production. 
22154345_1662421873770264_5183200738110522539_n by Michael Scarola, on Flickr
 

I posted a couple of videos and a couple of screengrabs of Denver in the Andy Griffith Show here.

The subject of Bo's Extravaganza originally came up in the NASCAR News thread, and that's where I posted the video below.
 
 

Here is the one I found from today 
 

I appreciate you figuring that out Hoss. I've been crunching those numbers for a few days and had calculated five mph but that was with a 2 mph margain of error. I know you're better at math so I'm taking your word for it. I'm not sure which is making me more nervous, having to jump that far or go that fast. I'm thinking I should make the jump before I turn 58 next month while I'm still much younger. Another thing I thought of. What happens if I get way up in the air (say 4 inches into the jump) and have to go to the bathroom? Or what if I get hungry? It's not like there's a fast food drive through around that high in the air. Which reminds me, we calculated distance and speed but not height. Could you crunch some more numbers and see how high I'll be? 

I'm starting to have second thoughts about jumping my dirt bike on my 58th birthday. I did some calculations and the toy is 4 inches long and I'm going to need 3 inches on each side of it. I took several hours to add all the numbers up and it came to a grand total of 10 inches. I'm not too worried about my dirt bike even though it's getting old....turning 20 this year. But I am worried about making a jump that long. I mean, what happens if I get 5 inches into the jump and get scared. There's no coming back at that point. The pressure I'm stating to feel is probably what Evil Knieval felt before he jumped the Snake River Canyon. 

Thanks Hoss. I just thought it would be good to put this here since there are fewer and fewer Dukes gatherings lately. I wish this thing wasn't a thousand miles away because I'd love to go if it was closer. I see the property is 58 acres which is a coincidence since Bo is turning 58. As I said I'll turn 58 just 7 days after that. I wonder if I should start an extravaganza when I jump my dirt bike over that General Lee toy. How much do you think I should charge for admission? 

This reminds me of a quote by Henry Ford. I'm not sure if it's true or not but I've heard it several times. Back then he didn't want to paint new cars different colors so he said "They can have one in any color they'd like as long as it's black."

Can someone remove the watermark, please? This is a fantastic picture! 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year. Heading to the In law's on Xmas eve and maybe heading to the theater on Christmas to see Star Wars depending on how much snow we get. 

Merry Christmas everybody! I'm just going to my mom's open a few presents and that's about it!

Merry Christmas everybody. Does anybody have any special plans? I don't.......just mostly stay home with a little time traveling short distances to visit family. 

Very cool! Also smart with the antenna. always have problems with flimsy antennas.