4/4/13

Well I am totally disgusted with the human race right now.  I got a text a little while ago saying, “We have an issue.  Call when you have a minute.”  The issue turned out to be that the ass-hole in Not Texas sold the truck body out from under me.  Well, the story I was told was that his “business partner” sold it.  If that is true, I hope he sold it for fifty bucks so the original guy is as fucked as I am now.  So, we’re not going to Not Texas to get the Rat Rod body as originally planned.  We’re also fucking the guy with the doors, unfortunately, but hopefully John never promised we were definitely buying them.  So, now I'm sitting on a pair of zorst stack rain cap flappy things and possibly an Oliver tractor grill without the rest of the Rat Rod to go with them.  I'm just about disgusted enough to say, “Fuck the whole thing” and NOT build one.  I suppose I could just go ahead and build George with an A-series as a keeper.  I could back-burner the fiftieth birthday idea for a while and build myself the Crossbow.  I've got two and a half years after all.  The Rat Rod was probably going to be finished way too early… at the rate I was “ignoring” it.  Or I could just have a fucking “Fire Sale” and get out from under all of these damned things.  I don’t know.  I'm just so pissed off right now.  And part of what is pissing me off is the fact that I've told so many people about this fucking Rat Rod.  I'm going to have to go back and be all, “Well, it just didn’t pan out.”  I suppose I could look for another body, perhaps something MORE suitable for the cab-forward suck-up truck idea.  Feh, even that isn’t working for me.  I did find on Craigslist a guy in Minnesota selling fiberglass ’27 T-Bucket bodies for $350.00 plus shipping.  His ad claims that $500.00 would get one to my door.  That is half the price of Speedway’s Track T body, and fiberglass was my original intention.  Hmm, perhaps we’ll reinvestigate the idea of a ‘glass Track T.  John just pointed out that is does sound a bit too good to be true.  I don’t know.  He’s probably right, and after this last ass-munch fucked me, I'm not sure I'm ready to deal with people on Craigslist.  And there’s also the fact that I really don’t want to do a fiberglass T-bucket.  Yeah, fuck it.  I'm done with Craigslist, and probably this Rat Rod idea.  I don’t know what I'll do with the zorst thingies and grill, if I “win” it, but building a Rat Rod isn’t looking too promising right about now.  I otter go look for a Lotus Esprit, or Europa, or a Mini or something to gift myself on my fiftieth.  I don’t want to back out on selling the Spit to B. R. Eastman because… well, I don’t want to be a dick like the shit head in Not Texas with the truck cab.  Oh he’s so lucky John was my middle man on this deal.  If I knew who, what, or where his business was, I'd be flaming them like a mother fucker over this deal.  Cock sucking mother fuckers!  I hope they have to watch their children burn to death.  Live with THAT you mother fucking deal breaker!  Ok, so John just pointed out that the C-list T body is a “bucket” whereas the Speedway body I've been looking at has the “turtle dick” out back.  I just went to Speedway and looked at their price for a “bucket” body and it is $469.00 so the C-list ad isn’t so farfetched.  Of course another problem with a T-bucket is the fact that I'd basically be building what I already have in The Seven.  I don’t know, I might be cooling on the whole Rat Rod idea.  I guess I'll go put that money back in the bank and sit on it for a while.  I'm glad we didn’t go get that Hardbody truck chassis yet!  Yeah, fuck it.  I think I'm just going to have to eat crow and ‘splain to everyone I've told about Oliver Closehoff that it just ain't gonna happen.  If B. R. Eastman still wants the A-series from Lil' Wiggly, and the 4.11 axle out of George, I'll move ahead on that deal, otherwise I'm going to put a warmed-over A-14 in George and have two hot rod 1200s.  Now I need to decide if I'm going back to the VG-33 in the Chickenhawk or not.  Yeah, probably.  But then again, John, B. R. Eastman, and I will probably discuss it this weekend and that whole plan might fly right out the window.  We’ll see.