4/7/06

Mr. Wiggly’s header arrived yesterday along with the oversized valves, guides, and retainers. Those last few items will go on the shelf with the spare head and valve springs when they arrive because I doubt I'm going to do a head swap ant time soon. I am planning to take the header to Robert so he can get it installed. I probably won’t go through with the SU carburetor for Mr. Wiggly either. I've got no real reason why not; I'm just not going to do it. Then again, I may change my mind in the next few days and decide to do it after all. I'm nutty like that. I was talking to Josh about paint schemes for it earlier. I told him that John has just about got me convinced to do an A-Team job on it. We also discussed the Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine and leaving it white with “Ordinary Van” painted on the side. [ I like “Unmarked Government Vehicle” – SM ] I suggested a guy in a black suit with dark sunglasses holding a pizza box and “Two Guys from Quantico Pizza Delivery” lettering. No one would get it though. If I wanted to spell it out for people it could be a stereotypical Italian woman, with J. Edgar Hoover’s face, making a pizza and “Mama Hooverini’s Fresh Baked Italian” as the name. I’ll probably put “Nothing to see here. Move along please.” on the rear doors if I do one of the surveillance van motifs. I'll need to get a bunch of antennae for the roof and tint the hell out of the glass. If I go with the “Ordinary Van” logo, I'll add an Area 51 parking permit to the windshield. Dang, I can hardly wait to have that thing back! I'm really looking forward to “hooning” in it. Ok, so you can’t really hoon in a 1975 Dodge Tradesman 100 van with a Slant Six and three-on-the-tree, but it will be fun to have. Well, I'm not coming up with much this afternoon. I think I'm going to call it a short rant and shoost it off to Spiderman. I’ll talk to y’all again Monday.