1/10/12

Damn, damn, damn, damn. So Sunday evening, while I'm waiting to see if anyone was going to show up for the Japanese Nostalgic Car thing, I had a look on line at the JNC message board. There in Jeff’s signature was a little factoid: his MR2 is for sale. While we were all talking later, I resisted the urge to ask, “How much?” Unfortunately someone else didn’t. Jeff said, “Nine.” Now, while I thought it sounded a bit high, I figured perhaps a car of that vintage MIGHT be worth $9,000.00 in the right circles. I knew it was too rich for my blood and blew it off. Jeff texted me today and asked if I was interested. I, still thinking he had some solid unobtanuim thing of super value, told him it was too much for my passing fancy. Then on a whim, I went ahead and asked to clarify his asking price. As I sent the text, I said to Larry, “If this thing turns out to be $900.00 instead of $9,000.00, I'm probably going to buy it.” Yeah, I'm an idiot. Apparently I was totally high thinking the car was worth that much. He did mean $900.00 and, according to John, it is worth just about that. So now I'm trying to finger out where I'm going to get $900.00 to buy an MR2 that I don’t need. Actually, I'm trying to finger out where I'm going to get $600.00 for an MR2 I don’t need because I have $300.00 lined up from the sale of Nadine. I wonder if I could sell Super Karate-Monkey Death-Car for that much. Feh, I don’t know what to think. What I need to do is convince John to build a 1200 Sunny Cup Car instead of a B-310 hatchback. See, if John were to finagle Jeff down on the price of the MR2, I'd give John Super Karate-Monkey Death-Car and the $300.00 from Nadine to get me into Jeff’s MR2. We’ve actually discussed this, but there is a wrinkle. John has already found a potential B-310 body donor in Houston for his Sunny Cup project. I'm not going to press him either way, but if he buys the car in Houston I might just have to invest in some rope and noose-tying lessons. No, I'm kidding. I don’t care either way. In fact, his NOT buying Super Karate-Monkey Death-Car and my NOT buying the MR2 does make the most sense. Of course, having Super Karate-Monkey Death-Car off my plate, opens up the option of putting the Chickenhawk's Z-20 in Rhonda. By the way, the B-310 he’s found is a slush-box car with a similarly blowed up transmission as his B-210. Yes, it could donate the engine to Rhonda, but we’d have to find a transmission. I'd rather go with the Z-20 at that point. Ok, I think I may have come to a decision. I'm going to plan on putting the Chickenhawk's Z-20 in Rhonda, at which point it might be the fastest car in my stable. Ok, no it wouldn’t. The Chickenhawk and Fiona would still be faster… and I really should stop using that word. “Faster” isn’t really what I mean. I actually mean “quicker.” Even though the Chickenhawk will have a power to weight ratio advantage over Fiona, Fiona's aerodynamics will trump that when top-end speed is the goal. I've seen 120 miles per hour in the Chickenhawk, but lift off the gas and the car dumps 40 miles per hour like you dropped an anchor. Fiona doesn’t even notice 80 mph of wind resistance… psh, she barely notices 100 mph air! So, my point is, “Faster” is not what I actually mean. Ok, I seem to have lost my train of thought. So I guess I'll… no! I just remembered something else! Mom called a little while ago to say that my package finally got delivered! I do not have to trek into the ghetto to retrieve it. I wonder if “we” are going to install that cold air intake on Fiona this Saturday. I'll leave that up to John I guess since he’ll probably take the tools away from me and do all the work anyway. :^p [and that is probably the only time you will ever see an emoticon in anything I type]