5/10/12

I thought on Tuesday that I should break that rant into two days.  As it turns out, I had nothing to say yesterday so I really should have done it.  Oh well, what are you going to do?  Anyhoo, I think I have a buyer for Hedley LaMarr, the 4” barrel .45 ACP 1911 I've been using as my conceal carry gun for a while now.  I'm not going to say who it is though… he or she knows who they are.  I also have this person interested in a Ruger MkIII .22 pistol.  If they buy one though, I'm going to have to call it an “Em Kay Eye Eye Eye” just to annoy them.  But I digress.  Why, you may be asking, do I want to sell Hedley LaMarr?  It’s like this… I'm not really sure why I bought it in the first place.  Sure, I might have been thinking it would carry better than Monty (the 5” barrel 1911 with the compensator which looks like the black knight’s helmet from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”), but I'm not 100% sure I was carrying Monty when I decided to buy Hedley LaMarr.  I think I just wanted another 1911 for some reason.  When I discovered that I could carry Monty just as easily as Hedley LaMarr, I decided that Hedley LaMarr was superfluous… even more superfluous I guess I should say.  I have for some time debated moving the bobbed hammer and grip safety from Hedley LaMarr to Monty but then Hedley LaMarr becomes the biggest albatross ever.  Ezekiel’s (not their real name) buying Hedley LaMarr resolves this issue.  Of course now I have even more gunsmithery to do.  I have to install the modified trigger group in the new 7.62x39 Saiga, after modifying the trigger of course, and bob the hammer and grip safety on Monty.  I think if I get to the shop early enough I can get all that done and work on Lil' Wiggly some as well.  I'm sure John won't mind working on his car instead of mine for a change!  We’ll see.  Speaking of bobbing the hammer and safety, I really need to put a coat of paint on those parts after I cut them.  I have managed to keep enoughWD-40 on Hedley LaMarr's bits to keep my skin from rusting them, but a coat of paint would go a long way to really protect them.  Of course having them re-Parkerized would be ideal but I don’t know of a place to get that done and I don’t want to be without the weapons for the time it would take to have them done.  No, flat black spray paint is how I think we otter go.  So, there’s that going on.  Hmm, what to say now?  Oh, I got a letter saying that my rent will be going up another $20.00 a month.  I told John and I think we have decided that once Lil' Wiggly is out we’ll move the Spitfire out of the “Paint Booth” and clear out the small storage unit into there.  I started doing that a few years ago, which is why the “PB” is so cluttered now, but got no help from anyone and so quit.  It shouldn’t take too long to shuffle that stuff onto the trailer and thence into the “PB.”  We can probably make that happen in a single Saturday… two, max.  We’ll see.  Speaking of the Spit’, have I mentioned that I think we’re going back to an A-14 with the single side draft and header in there?  Yeah, John has a buyer for the Chickenhawk's old Z-20, or he’s going to use it in his car, or something, so I'm back to an A-series for the Spit’.  Herman, if it ever happens, will go back to the original plan of a simple A-12 with little to no hot-rodding.  Of course John did mention that if a NAPS Z would fit, a KA would as well.  155 horsepower in a Spitfire would be the most ridiculous, stupid-fast thing we’ve probably ever considered.  George could get us gears for the rear axle to make the thing a 200 mile per hour bullet.  Hmm, Texas Mile?  No, I'm not going to build a Land Speed Car out of that rusty old Spit’.  I'm dumb…  I'm not THAT dumb.  No, a simple warmed-over A-14 will suffice in that car.  There is one that I REALLY should “build to sell.”  John asked if The Seven made another LBC superfluous one time.  It probably should be thought of in that vein… but I've always wanted a Spitfire!  The pragmatist in me is now suggesting I build the Spit’ to keep and sell The Seven to get out of debt.  Yeah, that line of thinking is fine until I fold myself into The Seven and go for a hoon.  The Spit’ will have to be just as much fun and a whole lot more comfortable/practical for it to supplant The Seven in my eyes.  Is “supplant” the right word there?  I suppose I could go look it up… but I'm not going to.  Anyhoo, there’s that going on.  Ok, I mentioned George, the Grumpy Old Fart, up above and have been talking about the Spit’.  I guess it will soon be “Poop or Get Out of the Ganges” time on whether George, the car, or the Spit’ is next in line.  Just because we move the Spit’ out of the “PB” doesn’t mean we have to start working on it.  It can go into the spot vacated by George once Lil' Wiggly is done… if George is truly the next in line, as it probably should be.  I think we have enough outside spots right now to move the Spit’ out and clear the small storage unit without resorting to putting another car in the main work bay.  I don’t know, we’ll see.  I'm sure all of these topics will be discussed Saturday.  Well, I think I've said enough for today… if Juan were to consider all of this drivel “saying something.”  I'm going to call it a rant.  Have a day.