Taking the Chevy to get painted

After nearly two years of body work, welding, modifications and planning, my project car (51 Chevy hardtop Bel-Air) is finally loaded and on its way to the painter.
The paint color will be a candy red on the body and a cream looking white on the roof. This is about the halfway mark. There is still a TON of work to done before I can finally drive it. Can not wait.

Give the firefighters their due!

For the last week, due to an unattended campfire, more than 3000 firefighters have been fighting the second biggest fire the the history of Arizona. Over 300,000 acres have burn, 24 homes and thousands of beautiful trees.
Those firefighters have worked furiously 12 hour shifts, hiking up and down mountainsides, over boulders and dead tree trunks, carrying axes, hoses and chainsaws, without showers or proper rest breaks. And for that they get only $10 a hour? According to some politicians, that's too much. AND, they don't believe the firefighters should have a proper pension either. They believe firefighters and police officers are cheap public servants that are over paid and over funded. I guess those politicians never heard about the 343 firefighters who ran INTO the WTC on September 11th to save lives while the building where collapsing around them.
I suggest those politicians switch jobs with a firefighter, carry 75 lbs. of gear into a burning house, pull furniture and people out of the fire, do mouth-to-mouth on a woman who is throwing-up from too much smoke, pull a drowned child from a pool, stand in the middle of a busy street working on an accident while cars whiz by... and do that for $10 an hour, a very small pension, and probably no Social Security. That OK, after all WE ARE CHEAP LABOR AND OVER PAID, right?