The Hazzard Garage (Cooter's Garage)

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

This project is like peeling back an onion with the amount of details- every time I get one layer done, I noticed another layer of things in the same pictures I've been staring at for 5 years.  Its weird what you DON'T see when you are looking for something specific.  I just noticed the other day that the back door has a door closer thingy at the top.  After doing a quick google search for some reference, I find it is in fact called a 'door closer', and the one in question is a 'vintage' style.  Its one of those every day objects we've all seen a thousand times in our life, but never focused on.  Fortunately for me, a 'vintage door closer' is shaped awfully similar to a piece of plastic model kit sprue in 1/25 scale!

 

Then there are the fan belts: turns out that 1/25 fan belts are pretty much identical to small hair 'elastics' (discovered thanks to my two daughters!).  The bad news: they only had rainbow colored ones.  The good news: found a package of 500 in black at the dollar store for... one dollar.  Felt a little weird buying them as they are apparently made for African-American folks' hair, so I got a coke and some peanuts to draw attention away from it.

 

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

 

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

[Roth Potter]

Man, it really looks likes it taken on the set.

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Man, it really looks likes it taken on the set.

Yea, its getting there!  Make me wish I was really tiny...

 

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[RogerDuke]

This is THE most amazing thing I've ever seen since I've been on the HazzardNet.

What amazing talent you have!

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

This is THE most amazing thing I've ever seen since I've been on the HazzardNet.

What amazing talent you have!

 

That's quite a compliment Roger; not sure it lives up to that; there is a lot of fun stuff here!  But I sure am glad you are enjoying it!

 

Mark

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Workin late in the shop tonight...

 

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

 

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

[HossC]

The lights are beautiful. It's just a shame that it hardly ever gets dark in Hazzard .

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Only one night shot of the garage in the entire series as I recall (Jude Emery). I wasn't going to do lights for that reason.

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Only one night shot of the garage in the entire series as I recall (Jude Emery). I wasn't going to do lights for that reason.

[Roth Potter]

Nicely done doubleposter.

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Nicely done doubleposter.

 

You can think my phone for that...

[Spike]

This is THE most amazing thing I've ever seen since I've been on the HazzardNet.

What amazing talent you have!

Have to agree with Roger. Awesome work. You ought to show this to Ben Jones I bet he'd get a kick out of the detail that you put into it  .

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Have to agree with Roger. Awesome work. You ought to show this to Ben Jones I bet he'd get a kick out of the detail that you put into it  .

 

In fact I have written him a couple times with pictures of this project in progress and both times he wrote back some very complimentary things.  I actually sent him another update last week but haven't heard back yet.

 

Mark

[Boss JD Hogg]

Hi Mark,  This is a remarkable project!  It looks like screen shots in some of the pictures you posted.

 

Excellent work and attention to detail on this.  

 

I am also a model builder and build Sci-Fi and Real Space models.  I'll be starting an MPC 1/25 General Lee build soon with some improvements to the kit.

 

I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this project.

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Hi Mark,  This is a remarkable project!  It looks like screen shots in some of the pictures you posted.

 

Excellent work and attention to detail on this.  

 

I am also a model builder and build Sci-Fi and Real Space models.  I'll be starting an MPC 1/25 General Lee build soon with some improvements to the kit.

 

I'm really looking forward to seeing more of this project.

 

Sci-Fi is my usual subject for models, so this project has been a nice 'down-to-earth' break from that.

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

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"

[Roth Potter]

Now that's an achievement!

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

I told him I consider his déjà vu to be a stamp of approval!

Mark

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

Working on the upstairs room:

https://flic.kr/p/xAfhj8

Edited August 20, 2015 by Mark B.

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

2nd try:

 

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

[Roth Potter]

just .

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

You never know what you'll find in the attic...

 

Untitled by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

[Mark B / Scooter Davenport]

I'm working on the 'attic' space and I found a way to hint at/pay tribute to the history of the building that became the Hazzard Garage.  I've made old weathered versions of the signs that dressed the set as it was used in 'The Music Man', and 'The Shootist'.

 

Livery signs reference by mommydawn2000, on Flickr

[Roth Potter]

Are you really sure you made that picture yourself? Man, that looks real!