9/3/08

Well, that’ll learn me to look at the pictures more closely. The gazinta/gazowta gasket I bought is for an A-12 GX not for an A-14/15. So what? Are you seriously asking me, “So what?” Do you mean to tell me that you are actually asking me “So what” about an A-12 GX gasket’s incompatibility with an A-14 or A-15? Psh, well I'll go ahead and ‘splain it to you if you are going to be that way. An A-12 uses one bolt between each intake port whereas an A-14 or A-15 has two bolts per pair of intake ports. I thought everyone knew that. So, what I'm going to have to do is punch four holes in this gasket to line up with the four upper intake bolts. Oh, I guess by the time y'all read this it will already be done now that I think about it. Yeah, I'm going to pick John up out of my way to the shop and then we’re… well, then we’re going to the shop. We’ll, hopefully, get Shi-Chi fired up this evening! After that I'm loaning him Fifi until his… well, I'm not sure if his next purchase is public knowledge yet. Suffices to say, he’ll be driving yet another “new” old car soon. New to him, that is. So, yeah, there’s that. Remember yesterday how I said Pepsi tastes so much better than Coke? Well today I bought a 20 oz Pepsi and a three pack of Vanilla Zingers out of my way up to the office. I ate the zingers and just took a sip of the Pepsi. While the Pepsi is light years ahead of Coca Cola on the “not tasting like rancid diarrhea filtered through a Bolivian unicyclist’s jockstrap” front, after the über sweetness of a Zinger the Pepsi has a distinctly sharp biting flavor that is not all that pleasurable. I need a palette cleanser. Ok, I just tried it again and it is getting better. All right, now we’re talking. Yum, Pepsi! Marty Mary always was a Pepsi man. I also remember when I was thinking of painting the Chickenhawk, doing up several “drawrings” of possible schemes. One of them was a Pepsi themed scheme with the front “half” of the car red, the back “half” blue, separated by a white “swoosh” much like the Pepsi “globe” Juan sees on their products. Of course the problem would be in that the Pepsi aspect of the scheme would only be visible from above. From the side, especially the passenger side, it would look like a waving French flag. And we wouldn’t want that! It’s bad enough that I've turned Darth Versa into a faux French car. I wouldn’t want folks to think I actually like the French. And before you start thinking I'm some jingoistic France hater because of this “War on Terror” bullshit, know that I've hated the French for a long, long time. Remember, I had two French textbooks lag-bolted to the front bumper of the Tick next to the words “French Sucks!” I remember going in to the Boys of Pep to buy a battery for the Tick one time and hiving the installation dude challenge me about that. “What’s that supposed to mean?” he asked. I said, “That the French language sucks.” He said, “I’m French.” I shrugged and just looked at him. I wanted to say, “Well, then I guess you suck,” but he was a little bigger than me. That and I wanted to get the battery installed without having to bust his head with a tire iron for hitting me. Actually, I think it would have been that acrylic club I've had since high school which always seems to wind up next to or behind the seat of my daily driver. No wait, the Shelby always had a six D-cell Maglight tucked next to the seat, but the effect on a head would be the same. Cuh-rack! I never had to use either of them though. I always seem to calm down before the “up close and personal” aspect of a good clubbing became necessary. If I carried a gun though, things might be different. That is one of the main reasons why I do not have a gun. There are far too many people out there who need a good killing and I'm afeared I might oblige one of them someday. Having said that, I think I have found the pistol I want to buy. Yes, I said I want a .50 caliber magnum, but the gun I might actually purchase is a Taurus “Judge.” The Judge is a five shot revolver chambered for .45 caliber Long Colt rounds or .410 shotgun shells. The cylinder is available in either 2.5” or a full 3” long to handle 3” .410 gauge shotgun shells. I saw about fifty of these at the gun show but was still on my .50 caliber quest. Had I looked more closely at a Judge, who knows, I might have bought one. In fact, the more I think about it, the more likely it is that I am going to buy one. Of course I'll still need an automatic for my C&C license. I'm sure I can come up with something. We’ll see. Well, it is approaching noon so I think I'm going to call it a rant. I'll let y'all know how the work on Shi-Chi went tomorrow. Toodles.