Merv's bird is because he has dinked around. Trust me on this one: If I were ready to hang a hood, I would be busting Steve's butt, or Scott's, or my daughter's boyfreind, the neighbor's--someone's butt for help.

I just got in from a weekend of my 30th, class reunion. It was criminal the way that the women were crawling on me. Criminal, that is, becuause they didn't do it while I was in school. When asked the reason--I knew--why was because they said that I looked like I was 12 years old when I gradguated. (This crawling all over is actually something that they have learned from younger women because women didn't crawl all over guy, even the "hot" ones, at least in my school.)

I had a hell of a time, and I have 2 prospects lined up, one of whom, is one woman's baby sister. (Put a lid on the cradle robbin' Steve; baby sister is 37. I guess that is cradle robbing when you're on this side of 50.) Baby sister is a crap's shoot, but it's more than major clear that the other one is solid exploration, with compatibility being the obstical. Her long standing previous commitments with her adult children and other family caused the postponment. In other words, her early 20's, hulking 6'2", 225 lbs, would kick my @$$ if I had managed to sweet talk Mom out of her plans. Interesting: she had a problem with a rejected man start to stalk her. The didn't restort to violence, but they did have a chat with the gentelman. PROBLEM SOLVED!

Anyway, if I forgo festivities and take advantage of the 2 remining days off, I might be able to peice it together enough so that we could we could have 4 birds. I know that I won't be able to colorsand buff the latest patches, and detail the car, but if it were together, it would be good enough so that its sisters will make up for its shortcomings. And to the Cramaro group, we can always point out the the car had #36 grit plastic and was still in a box at the beginig of the week.

Really, guys, I'm going to make an honest attempt to get'er done because we really need some birds there. Larry is over a barrel with bring his bird, and with the qualty/level of his restoration, it just aint gonna happen. I don't have as good of an excuse for dropping the mofo's in the grease.

Foose can do a frame off in a week. All I have to do is block some primer spots, smoke some base/clear over it, hang some sheet metal, pukey in a couple of peices of glass, and wash off the dust. I'll skim through the board, hit the sandpaper, and see what happens. If it does happen, I might need a 20 minute visit one evening to hold the hood.