1/31/13

Woo hoo!  Payday!  I can buy stuff!  I have ordered the hydraulic parking brake thingy, an offset bottom plate thingy for the air filter to allow it to clear the HEI dizzy, and… um, what the hell else did I order?  Oh right, not car related.  I bought a different sight mount thingy for the 7.62x39 Saiga.  I think those were all the items I've blown money on today.  As for yesterday, remember how I said I'd just sent a text to John asking about the Mustang Dude?  Well, he replied back that he would ask the next time he stopped in there.  Then, about five minutes later, he did question me about the bell housing.  What he didn’t do, which sort of surprised me, was poo-poo the idea.  But since I haven’t heard anything from him today on the subject, I'm going to assume he didn’t have to stop by that particular shop yet.  No worries.  I'm sure the oil pressure gauge fitting is somewhere in the shop, and others have set up these throw out bearings without skeletonized bell housings.  We’ll see.  Speaking of “wheels,” last night on “Wheeler Dealers” they had three shows about micro-cars.  The first was a Bond Bug.  I now have the hots for a Bond Bug.  Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, they only made a little over 2,000 of them… and most are in the UK.  So it is unlikely that I will ever SEE much less own one.  The next episode was about a BMW Isetta.  They are pretty cool, and I probably wouldn’t turn one down if offered to me at the right price, but I am not shit-hot for one.  The third episode was… um, hang on, it’ll come to me.  Oh right!  A Fiat Cinquecento!  Now that I do have the shit-hots for!  I know where there is a rusting shell sitting by the side of the road.  Remember back when John and I went to Cross Plains to get his B-310?  On the reconnaissance trip we saw it sitting there in some small town.  We even stopped to look it over.  Me rikee rots!  Of course I had to say to John that I now regret letting the N600 go but it was pointed out that that particular car needed a LOT of work.  I then conceded that even though I consider them “normal sized,” a Datsun 1200 probably isn’t that much bigger than these others.  I'm having trouble convincing my brain of that right now though.  Like I said, I think of a 1200 as “normal sized.”  Hells bells, I consider a B-210 to be a bit big, actually!  A 510 is downright luxurious in its relatively Brobdingnagian proportions.  You’d think that driving the aircraft carrier sized Fifi and main-line battle ship sized Fiona would cure me of these feelings… but it doesn’t.  Oh yeah, I don’t even consider The Seven to be all that Lilliputian, actually.  Nope, that is a normal sized car as well.  I guess I'll have to settle for the Spit as my quirky “small” car… even though I don’t think it is all that small either.  John thinks the Crossbow will be on the wee side but I seem to remember taking measurements and the thing is going to be something like eleven feet long.  Oh wait, that is still a foot shorter than a 1200 I believe.  Hmm, maybe it will be “small.”  We’ll see.  Ok, I've been running pretty hard all day today.  I think it is time for a nap.  I guess we’ll call this rant complete.