All bloggers eventually face the same difficult conundrum: just how to spend all that sweet crazy internet cash? For me, the answer was obvious: build a bitchin' hot rod.
This is not something I've gone into lightly. This is a personal crusade. Because, as far as cars are concerned, the blogosphere is a vast wasteland of unrelenting dorkitude. Oh sure, if you're a fancy lad in chinos looking for the latest industry trade rumors from Dusseldorf, or a review of the peppy insouciant understeer on the new Flöörmgvö 880i, the "car bloggers" have you covered. But what about the rest of us who were born with a pair, and who wouldn't be caught dead in a Euro wuss-wagon? Shit Outta Luck, that's what, and that's where. Sadly, going to the blogosphere for cool car stuff is like going to Renaissance Faires for lap dances.
No, someone needed to address this alarming situation, and if it had to fall to me, so be it. That's why I recently bundled my BlogAd revenues and PayPal donations and embarked upon a solemn quest to create the first blog-built hot rod. Not just any hot rod, mind you, but the real thing: early Ford steel, overcarbed mill, three figure budget, parts gleaned from swap meets and the Pick 'N' Pull mud, put together in dusty garage with hammers, henrobs and busted knuckles.
As luck would have it, a friend called a few week ago and alerted me to a cheap 1930 Ford Model A Coupe that had been ripening in a barn, undisturbed, for over 40 years. As soon as I laid eyes on its noble rusting carcass I knew this was it -- the car whose destiny will be... The Coupe of Justice.
The car is currently at a secure undisclosed location where I am slowly coaxing it into shape; the completion date is unknown, but I will be documenting the build and posting occasional updates. After a few marathon late nite wrenching/torching sessions, though, I can give you a sneak peek. Upcoming fun: the blogosphere's first top-chop and chassis z-ing.
Big thanks to all of you who made this blogrodding possible through you advertising and PayPal support. As a token of my gratitude, I will be inscribing your names inside the Decklid of Justice. And when I'm finished you are entitled to one quarter-mile E ticket ride.
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Related: The BLOG (hot rod fiction parody)
