4/17/14

John sent me a picture of some RBs in "light red."  I like it… but we’ve come up with a different idea.  We’re now thinking about leaving the spokes black and painting the lips "light red."  This, I think, will look really good.  Of course “the horse” is just a wee, tiny little speck in the background behind this “cart” at the moment.  John has said that he’s going to continue to crack the whip on me to finish Lil' Wiggly while HE gets to work on the Chickenhawk though.  Hopefully I'll have Lil' Wiggly going soon and will be able to join him in working on my car.  We’ll see.  Pat sent me a link to a video on the U-Toob, or whatever, of a Renault Espace with a Formula 1 engine in the back.  That got me thinking, which is NEVER a good thing.  My neighbor across the street has, in addition to a bitchin’ Honda N600 and a very clean 1980 Subaru GLF Coupé, one of those egg-shaped Toyota Previa mini-vans.  He’s got Alzheimer’s and she has never driven in the forty years I've known the family, so the kids are probable going to be selling cars soon… except for the Honda, unfortunately.  When I saw that Renault video, as I said, I got to thinking… “What if we were to shoe-horn an Lexus SC430 V8 in the middle of that Yoda van?”  I could even live with it being a slush-box… probably.  Of course I'll never do it, but it is kind of fun to fantasize.  What I do think will happen before too much longer is that I'm going to end up with that sweet Scoob.  I know, I just got rid of a bunch of… ok, my only extra car, why would I get another?  Ok, how many times do we have to go over this?  I'm dumb!  And I've just done a little interweb browsing on that car which only makes me want it more.  Hopefully Tina, the daughter who owns the car, won't go looking at the NADA website to see what it is worth.  They, NADA, claim it’s still worth $1,600.00 to $3,825.00!  I'd place this car, from memory, in the middle of the road condition wise so I'm looking at a $2,500.00 thirty-five year old Subaru!  Well, I'm not sure I'm THAT interested.  I might, MIGHT, go as high as two grand if it turns out to be as nice as I remember… but I'll start the bidding much lower if it ever comes around to buying time.  We’ll see.  I need to finger out how to get John to buy the house so I'll at least know some of the foibles of the new neighbors.  I'm not looking forward to new neighbors.  Have I ever mentioned how I hate people?  Well, I do… as much as I hate computers.  Yeah, people suck.  Anyhoo, what else is there to talk about today?  Hmm, well it is a third-weekend so we won't be going to the shop Saturday… at least John won't.  I might still head down and do something with Lil' Wiggly's wiring.  I'm off tomorrow, and Monday, so I'm really going to be at a loose end.  Ok, I've been staring at the screen for five minutes (not really that long but it I like hyperbole) trying to think of more to say.  I'm not coming up with anything so I'm going to call it a rant.  I'll let y'all know what, if anything, happened over the long weekend on Tuesday.