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Boss Hogg is up for reelection, T.C. Rogers is back in Hazzard to challenge him, and Bo and Luke have a personal stake in the race. Whoever wins will oversee their probation. Before the votes are counted, there’s a plot to swap the ballots, a wedding in the back of Cooter’s truck, and a General Lee campaigning with loudspeakers on the roof. Rob, Bernie, and Corndog revisit “The People’s Choice,” Season 2, Episode 11 of The Dukes of Hazzard. Bernie explains why adding power to a CB won’t turn it into an AM broadcast station, and Corndog gets into what the ballot thieves’ ’67 Dodge Coronet shares with a ’69 Charger. The crew also takes a closer look at the General Lee’s hard landing with the campaign speakers still attached. “The People’s Choice” originally aired November 30, 1979. The Dukes review is presented by Holley. The post K&F Show #384: Boss Hogg’s Ballot Box Blues // Dukes Review: S02E11 “The People’s Choice” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Granny Annie prints her own five-dollar bills, Boss Hogg tries to make a deal with the wrong guy, and the General Lee flies roughly 230 feet over a set of railroad tracks. Rob, Corndog, and Bernie revisit “Granny Annie” from The Dukes of Hazzard, and all three give it a 10 out of 10. The General Lee’s 230-foot railroad jump Al Wyatt Jr. sent the ’69 Dodge Charger sailing over the railroad tracks in Oxnard, California. Corndog points out the fluid spraying from the front of the General while it’s still in the air and explains how the hit on the ramp likely damaged the radiator. Then there’s what happened after landing. According to the behind-the-scenes account we discuss, traffic had reopened beyond the landing area, the brakes reportedly weren’t working, and Wyatt steered the Charger into a parked box truck to stop it. We also explain how to tell Wyatt’s jump apart from John Cade’s jump at the same tracks in the opposite direction. And there’s still a hard side-impact crash and a Plymouth Fury lake jump to talk about. The moment Rosco says “please” Granny Annie accidentally pays Bo and Luke with counterfeit bills after they help around her house. Boss smells a payday in her engraving plates, but his deal with Big Jim Downey puts his life in danger. When Rosco gets on the CB and asks the Dukes for help, one word tells them how serious it is. James Best gives the episode its most heartfelt moment, and Bo and Luke go after Boss without hesitation. We also cover Mickey Jones filling in at Cooter’s garage as B.B. Davenport, the Oak Ridge Boys’ early stop at the Boar’s Nest, and the covered bridge at Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch that connects this episode to Joe Dirt. Episode stats and guest cast “Granny Annie” is Season 2, Episode 10 and the 23rd episode of the series. It originally aired November 23, 1979, was written by Bruce Howard, and was directed by Dick Moder. Lurene Tuttle plays Granny Annie, Mickey Jones plays B.B. Davenport, and George Murdock plays Big Jim Downey. Pamela Jean Bryant appears as Holly Mae, George James as Vic, and Jim Kindelon as the bartender. The Oak Ridge Boys appear as themselves. The post K&F Show #383: 230 Feet of General Lee Glory! // Dukes Review: S2E10 “Granny Annie” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Happy Halloween! Rob, Corndog, and Bernie are digging into the archives for a special audio-only bonus episode featuring our 2024 review of “The Hazzardville Horror.” It’s a little Scooby-Doo, a lot of Hazzard County, and absolutely no reason to let Boss Hogg handle your precious silver. When Mary Lou Pringle returns to sell her inherited family mansion, a pair of crooks uses spooky sounds and moving furniture to hide a stolen-silver operation. Bo and Luke investigate, Boss and Rosco blame the Dukes, and the General Lee does what it does best: fly! We revisit the famous pond jump, the General Lee’s tire-track “autograph” photo, guest-star connections to Dirty Harry and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, and a few filming details you might have missed. Add disappearing “Hogglooms,” spectacularly incompetent police work, and Luke struggling to get out of the driver’s seat, and this one earns ten silver bars! This review originally appeared in K&F episode 311. We’ve added a fresh introduction for this Halloween rerelease. No YouTube episode this week—this bonus is just for your ears! Help us get a head start on our annual Toys for Tots Christmas drive! Join the K&F Patreon for bonus content and help us make Christmas brighter for kids who need it: https://www.patreon.com/KFSHOW. The post K&F Show #382: Halloween Bonus! // Dukes Review – S3E3 “The Hazzardville Horror” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Welcome back to Hazzard County—and happy 66th birthday to Producer Bernie McPartland! It’s the perfect automotive birthday for a guy whose favorite Chevelle is a ’66. We celebrate with repurposed birthday decorations, questionable snack cakes, embarrassing pictures, and birthday messages from friends including Clay Millican and Mike Finnegan. Bernie even gets a trivia game built around himself. Surely he can win that one! This week we’re reviewing The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2, Episode 9, “Witness for the Persecution.” Boss Hogg is scheduled to testify against a notorious racketeer, and hitmen are determined to keep him quiet. Naturally, the FBI decides the safest place for him is the Duke farm. Uncle Jesse agrees to help, while Bo and Luke discover that protecting Boss might be easier than living with him. He takes Daisy’s bed, brings his own menus, and expects the full hospitality package! The big automotive highlight is an iconic General Lee jump—the same airborne Charger shot used in the classic “The Dukes of Hazzard will continue” commercial break bumper. Corndog points out the skid plate, full roll cage, and helmeted stuntmen, along with differences between the cars used for takeoff and the airborne footage. We also try an AI-assisted look at the jumps, although its distance estimates give us plenty to question. The General isn’t the only car getting airtime, either: the bad guys’ ’67 Mercury Cougar puts on a show of its own! Corndog revisits his original notes from our 2017 review, uncovering changing engine bays, disappearing and reappearing hubcaps, and other production details we love. There’s a sideways entrance into Cooter’s garage that might feature John Schneider behind the wheel, Cooter enjoying donuts and moonshine for breakfast, and Boss Hogg eating with sound effects nobody needed to hear quite that clearly. Uncle Jesse delivers a good lesson about helping people who have wronged you, while Bernie appreciates Luke’s ability to pick up Boss and stuff him through a vehicle window. Rob gives it 7.5 ducking dogs; Birthday Bernie goes higher at 8.75! Before the review, Rob shares how a perfect weekend with his cars ended with the General blowing a heater hose—just as he was filming it. We also preview our SEMA plans, Bernie brings the weather and news, and Holley’s classic 650 CFM Double Pumper gets the birthday pricing treatment. We finish by letting Bernie choose the closing joke. It’s his birthday, so we have to let him! The post K&F Show #381: Boss Hogg Moves In & Bernie Turns 66! // Dukes Review S2E9 “Witness for the Persecution” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week we’re reviewing The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2, Episode 8, “Hazzard Connection,” and this one is exactly why I love Season 2. Real driving, hard hits, wonderfully sloppy production details, and a plot where stolen racing engines are apparently the criminal currency of choice. What more could you want? Bo and Luke need to make some money, so they take jobs hauling wrecked cars for demolition derby operator Augie Detweiler. Unfortunately, those cars are carrying stolen racing engines. Boss and Rosco are already watching the operation, and the Duke boys have landed themselves right in the middle of it. Clearing their names means getting closer to Augie—and risking the General Lee against his supposedly unbeatable derby car, the Slammer! Then there’s Tom Wopat climbing around a moving semi-trailer. That’s actually him out there! Luke also backs the Slammer off the moving trailer, years before Knight Rider made that sort of thing a regular attraction. We couldn’t help making the connection, especially with Jack Gill’s involvement in both shows. Daisy’s Plymouth takes a genuinely painful hit from Rosco’s patrol car, a Camaro makes a fantastic jump, and Bo and Luke drive a Mustang into a pond after its brakes fail. Naturally, they drive it home afterward. Apparently, pond water fixes brakes in Hazzard County! Corndog brings the details we love: cars reused from earlier episodes, familiar California filming locations, painted-over ’68 Charger side markers, and a General Lee with an unfinished blue interior. There’s also a cigarette pack sitting right on the dashboard during the stakeout. And when Luke is supposed to be driving the Slammer, one close-up puts him inside the General instead. Perfectly imperfect. Before the review, we catch up on my Volkswagen tinkering, Corndog’s preparations for Cruisin’ the Coast, Cody Young’s work with Avenge Industries, and what makes a great automotive television show. Bernie brings the weather and news, we play October Automotive Celebrity Birthday Trivia, and Holley’s Dominator carburetor gives us a fitting lead-in to all those stolen race engines. The post K&F Show #380: General Lee vs. The Slammer! // Dukes Review S2E8 “Hazzard Connection” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week, we start with Cale Yarborough’s famous fight after the 1979 Daytona 500 and a more recent NASCAR confrontation. That leads us into a conversation about racing, the headlines it makes, and how a new generation of drivers builds an audience through video. Bernie takes us to Pennsylvania for the story of an early automotive tire and inner tube patent. Then Rob puts Bernie and Corndog through Automotive Celebrity Birthday Trivia, with clues from the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie, Ford v Ferrari, Days of Thunder, and Christmas Vacation. In the news, Bernie covers the 2026 Automotive Hall of Fame inductees, a newly announced GM diesel engine, and electrified vehicle sales in Europe. We also talk drive-by-wire pedals and swap brackets available through Holley. Then it’s time for The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2, Episode 7, “Dukes Meet Cale Yarborough.” Cale is secretly testing a turbocharger when the Jethro brothers set out to steal it, with Boss Hogg eager to help. Bo, Luke, and Cooter step in, leading to Cale’s white Charger, a whole lot of car chases, and three General Lees on the road at once. Corndog points out the different Chargers used in filming and identifies the unlikely part passed off as the turbocharger. Rob loves every wonderfully imperfect minute of it! The post K&F Show #379: Cale Yarborough Comes to Hazzard—and Three General Lees Hit the Road! first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Mike Finnegan sent us something that none of us had ever seen—or even heard of—before: a forgotten 1983 television adaptation of Six Pack. Intended as a pilot for a weekly series based on the Kenny Rogers movie, it starred a pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson as race car driver Brewster Baker. Markie Post, Jennifer Runyon, Billy Warlock, and a very young Joaquin Phoenix rounded out a surprisingly recognizable cast. The real reason it landed on our radar was an orange 1969 Dodge Charger with a roll cage. Was it an actual General Lee left over from The Dukes of Hazzard, a stock car constructed by the same Georgia crew, or simply a very obvious tribute? Corndog examines the Charger’s dashboard, bodywork, roll cage, and suspicious Dukes connections before delivering his official diagnosis. We also discuss Markie Post’s tunnel-rammed 1968 Camaro, the pilot’s six-kid pit crew, its strange mixture of family television and stock-car racing, and the final event featuring one of the most unlikely collections of race cars ever assembled. The orange Charger eventually meets its end in a spectacularly terrible “decapitation” stunt that may be worth watching the entire production to see. Before the review, we prepare for Holley MoParty 2026, preview Nathan Warren’s incredible LS-powered Crown Victoria General Lee drift car, and help one of Dallas Kibbe’s friends determine whether a modified 2003 Mustang GT is a smart first performance-car purchase. Bernie also brings us the Celebrity Automotive Birthday Game and the award-winning news you need to know. The post K&F Show #378: Don Johnson’s Lost “Six Pack” TV Pilot – Was That a General Lee? first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

Welcome back to Hazzard County! This week, we confirm that Days of Thunder 2 is officially moving forward and discuss whether Tom Cruise can convincingly put Cole Trickle back behind the wheel of a NASCAR Cup car. We also share an update on our uncertain Moparty plans, the people representing K&F at the event, and why my General Lee will probably remain safely at home. Bernie brings us the latest automotive news, including California’s proposed “Leno’s Law,” the return of the NHRA Winter Nationals to Pomona, John Force’s upcoming 50th anniversary in drag racing, and Ford’s decision to use Apple Maps in its future universal EV platform. We also play another round of Automotive Celebrity Birthday Trivia, discuss six-volt lighting from Ron Francis Wiring, and highlight the MSD high-torque mini starter available through Holley. Then we review The Dukes of Hazzard Season 2, Episode 6, “The Ghost of General Lee.” After two pool hustlers steal the General Lee and drive it into Hazzard Pond, everyone believes Bo and Luke have died. Boss Hogg immediately turns the tragedy into an insurance scam, forcing the Duke boys and Cooter to transform the General Lee into a glowing, driverless ghost car. It’s funny, surprisingly emotional, and still one of my favorite episodes from the entire series. Settle in and enjoy the ride! The post K&F Show #377: The General Lee Comes Back From the Dead! // Dukes VIDEO Review S2E6 “The Ghost of General Lee” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

This week on the Kibbe and Friends Show, we remember two enormous pop-culture icons, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry. Dolly’s passing leads to stories about her music, movies, generosity, faith, and universal appeal—followed by an AI-generated Dolly Parton quiz that somehow results in a perfect score. We also look back at Tim Curry’s unforgettable career, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Clue to Home Alone 2 and The Hunt for Red October. Corndog then breaks down a real screen-used General Lee currently being offered for sale. Built for the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie, this Charger carries a massive hydraulic arm underneath that allowed it to drive on two wheels. The guys discuss its construction, ownership history, current value, and how a rough-but-authentic movie car compares with a beautifully finished General Lee replica. We also talk about Chris Harris pausing his podcast after 100 episodes, whether audio-only podcasting still has a future, and our developing plans for Holley MoParty 2026. Then it’s time for The Dukes of Hazzard, Season 2, Episode 5: “Road Pirates.” A gang of electronics thieves disguises itself as law enforcement and begins hijacking tractor-trailers filled with televisions, radios, and everything else that passed for home entertainment in 1979. Boss Hogg pays for a load of stolen merchandise before it has even been stolen, the deal goes bad, and Bo, Luke, and temporary deputy Cletus somehow end up handcuffed together and blamed for the entire operation. This episode may not feature as much General Lee action as we would like, but the early-series stunt work is wonderfully raw. Corndog shares rare behind-the-scenes photographs of Al Wyatt Jr. jumping from a moving semi onto the General Lee and Jack Gill launching a motorcycle over Daisy’s Plymouth. We also examine the recycled General Lee jump, Tom Wopat popping a wheelie on a dirt bike, James Best doing some real driving, and the show repeatedly switching between completely different police cars. It’s another wonderfully chaotic trip through early Hazzard County—filled with daring practical stunts, behind-the-scenes discoveries, questionable police work, and absolutely no CGI! The post K&F Show #367: No CGI—Just Courage! // Dukes VIDEO Review S2E5 “Road Pirates” first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.

This week on the Kibbe and Friends Show, I have a new mission: save The Dukes of Hazzard! With Coyote vs. Acme finding new life after sitting on a shelf, could somebody do the same thing with the Dukes while John Schneider and Tom Wopat can still climb through the windows of a Charger? Bernie and Corndog naturally help turn my perfectly reasonable idea into something completely ridiculous. We also talk racing after Dallas returned to Jefferson Speedway, the reborn IROC series, and a fascinating—and somewhat sad—story from Jay Chandrasekhar about working with Burt Reynolds on the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard movie. Plus, our mysterious voicemail caller asks a surprisingly good question: with new 1969 Charger bodies coming to market, could the Charger eventually become the 427 Cobra of the muscle-car kit world? Then it's time for The Dukes of Hazzard, Season 2, Episode 4: “The Meeting.” The Chicago mob comes to Hazzard, Boss Hogg rents them the jail for $10,000, and what follows is basically Good Ol' Boys versus Goodfellas. It's pinstripe suits, limousines, cement galoshes, ridiculous disguises, Daisy distractions, mobsters under nets, and enough Looney Tunes logic to fill an entire episode. Most importantly, this episode features the final jump of Lee 3—one of the original three General Lees. Corndog gives us the history of this very early Charger and explains exactly what happens during the jump that finally kills it. I gave “The Meeting” 9 cement galoshes, Corndog gives it an 8, and Bernie lands at 8.5. It's a wonderfully ridiculous episode of the Dukes and a packed K&F Show to go with it! The post K&F Show #375: The Dukes Meet the Mob! “The Meeting” Dukes of Hazzard Review first appeared on The Muscle Car Place.