Well,`..This saturday coming up will be an auspicious occasion. It will mark a 5 year interval between the red car, and the orange one.
I went to another one of our local cruise-in's last Saturday night. Another smallish event,...probably 50-75 cars.
I do have to say that based on initial feedback, this car will outperform the red car in the "popular vote" category by a mile.
The red car had it's followers, but by far and large it was mostly panned by most. That's because it tried to be two things, and fell short in both attempts.
Now the Orange car,....The Monster,...He ain't trying to be nothing but a monster.
Dozens of people stream by and look,.....stare at the engine,...and wonder what the hell it is. ( It's an Australian headed, 250 ford 6 cylinder) They want to hear it run. (they say it sounds like a sewing machine) They all bet it'll haul ass,..(they're kinda right) Everybody that stops and talks, inevitably drags somebody back by to show them.
5 years ago, I entered the red car in a local Ford dealer show. I don't remember what it won,..but the red car got some obligatory plaque in consideration of the morphadite status that car held title to. It's open to all ford models,..and there is a 500.00 grand prize to be won,....I'll bet the Monster want's to play in that sand box. I'm gonna let him.
Now I'm here to tell you, the monster is far from a show car. Up against the likes of a Scott/
@RacEoHolic330, I'd get killed.
But there is just all of that weird sht goin on with the monster that takes your eye off of the imperfections and short cuts....The monster is a working, rolling example of a Rube Goldberg machine 1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine to rival the most complex examples out there. Maybe I'll be able to fool the judges into looking past the less than perfect body work as a result of the deafening cacophony of whirrs, chatters, clunks, knocks and rattles that the engine makes as it runs...(Like a sewing machine).
Maybe the monster will pay for himself 500.00 dollars at a whack over the next 50 years....yeah......that's the ticket.
The new house will be a different house in the end.
We were willing to look past the fact that the house we were having built is smack in the middle of the ghetto. Willing to take a chance in hopes of the possible urban renewal that surrounds our little island community in consideration of getting closer to down town, and away from the burbs that I currently live in.
That is until last week when somebody got robbed and shot 2 blocks away,...and the week before that when somebody got shot in the grocery store parking lot,...and while driving through the surrounding neighborhood, turned down a street and were witness to what was probably a drug deal...all while our two white bread asses slowly drove by....
Uhhh,.......no.
So,....new house hunting with a different criteria set this time,.....Neighborhood 1st,...
then house, instead of the other way around.