RE: Come on in!!
Looks like I'm the only one in here, might as well leave something on my way out. Grunt, ahh, eeehhh, uuuuuuuhhhhhh. Well there it is, I believe you concrete guys would rate that about 5 1/2 slump, that is a pile height of 5 1/2 inches for you non-mason types. Just my way of sharing a part of myself with the group. Speaking of group, I need support. I was looking upon the 09 concept Camaro with lust in my heart, is that wrong? Anyway, since I'm spillin my guts (pun intended, sorry about the carpet) I sold my wifes 68 Camaro for $1500 in 1997. The truth is, in a two car garage is there really room for two cars? Especially if the other one is a 72 340 4 speed Rallye with strobing stripes rippled over Top Banana? Well, lets put it another way. You have a queen size bed, your girl is pushing 340 (lbs). Do you get a king size bed? Sleep on the couch? Or continue to fall into the valley of death every time she rolls up on you in a deep slumber, mouth wide open, giving you Ram Air of the foul kind? The answer is easy, ask any electrical engineer. Follow the path of least resistance, getting a new bed takes time, money and energy. Sleeping on the couch requires self discipline, selflessness, and I think self hatred followed by self pity, anyway or door #3...... Boot the Betty, or in this case the Bertha. So that is what I did, I surprised my new wife with $1500 in cash and told her the good news! Hey Baby, you won't believe what happened! You know that old car you got from your Dad for graduation? You know, the one that you and him worked on together for 4 months trying to set the timing cause your Dad wouldn't know a distributor from a dishwasher? Yeah, that one, the 327 RS, black on black, bucket, console, sleek, sexy, fem fatale Camaro with purple stripes that you had added for the perfect touch at completely removing the balls from any man caught near it at every car show at the Lake parked next to the peak of my masculinity that most people referred to as "the other cute car next to the Camaro!" Anyway, needless to say, she was speechless! And for a week I was wifeless! What can I say, I needed to rebuild my 340 that had just dropped oil pressure the week before and I was making $5.25 hr. Her car had been sitting for months because the wiring was on the fritz, destiny! Along comes a hand full of greenbacks and a tow truck, all in the same afternoon! I had been praying for this and I am a believer, ask and ye shall recieve, knock and it shall be opened unto you, well the light shone down and a dove flew over and crapped on the Camaro as it was winched onto the roll back! And we lived happily ever after? Until tonight, 11 years later, I mentioned that the new Challenger will come in "Plum Crazy" and my wife mentioned the new Camaro will come in a convertible! AAAAAHHHHHH! And we can go to car shows again! You in your new Challenger and me in my Camaro! I will forgive you for my 68 and maybe my Dad will too! So, I'm on the web checkin it out and, um, well, urrr, I am getting a chubby! Detroit, we have a problem. That Camaro is too damn cool to be anywhere near my Mopars! Confession is almost over, the new Challenger will come in a 5 speed only, thank God it will pump 425 hp compared to the 400 hp Camaro, we will still remain in power! All hail the Challenger! Yes honey, I'm coming to bed right now muffin........