i'm out of ideas

Well, I'm not dead, but I'm not alive either. Ok, that sounds ominous, but it made a convient comparison. I'm fine, really. I've not been busy either. Built a pen for the peafowl, so they are outside now. They seem to enjoy it, much more room out there for them, plus the dining room where they were kept doesn't smell so bad anymore, lol.

This weekend was the 4th annual National Sport Trac Meet, this time in Dallas. I wanted to go, wish I coulda gone, but I couldn't make it. It wasn't as big as many had hoped, but for those who went make it sound like like it was a good time. But, to the point, the 2007 ST which was unveiled for the first time at the Texas State Fair on Thursday. How do I like it? Eh....it's not bad. The interior is nice, clean, simple, intuitive. Exterior? Ugly isn't proper...plain and uninspiring are. It looks exactly like the 06 Explorer from the front, and exactly like an F150 stepside from the rear, no coincidence (however you spell that...) as the ST shares the all front end panels with the '06 Ex, and a tailgate with the F150 with the bed and tail lights being highly influenced by the big brother. The result is a watered down version of what the ST should be. Really, it wouldn't take much to make improvements, remove the front chrome, remove the horizontal cross bars from the grille, darken the tail lamps. Bam! uniqueness unto itself. But I digress, Ford needs to fix it, plain and simple.

And on other news, I'm writing yet another ordering guide....yes, yes, I know, I need to finish my ST one, but better to have 2 or 3 half finished projects going at once then doing them one at a time like a sane person. Anywho, I'm writing one on the Silvia S15. I can't really even FIND this type of information anywhere, although one site has a good set-up of info, so I'll compile the info myself. Take that, the Man!

At the local cruise in yesterday (Saturday) a very nice '94 Ranger showed up. It was an all-out show bitch though, bagged, full tweed interior, two tone paint with graphics, slicked bed, axle-over-frame, etc, etc, etc. Don't get me wrong, it was very badass, but he did say he only drug it once and thought the better about it, he does have a fully painted frame afterall....A lot of the things he had done I'll be doing, or want to do, the slicked bed, the fabbed inner front fenders, and the axle-over-frame set-up. It was nice to see it realized, and better it gave my father a much better idea of what I want to do, and he's on board for it all...always a good thing. I'm not sure when, but hopefully soon I'll have a new fuel tank for the Ranger. Currently my tank is little more then the height of a coke can off the ground...so getting a '94 Dakota tank and putting it in the bed seems like a good idea, and for only $50, it's cheap insurance.

Onto the '66...it looks as if we'll have another '66, this time a 2-door Falcon. But, this time, the Falcon is strictly a parts car. It has a straight, clean hood, a nicer gauge cluster, headers, and other this and that's which will really help the other '66 along. My father and I are really hoping we'll be able to get the high-pro 289 and C4 along with the car, that'll be a HUGE boost to finishing the Ranchero in a decent amount of time. We'll see.