Does your S/O like your early A-body?

LMAO....when the 66 cuda came in from Denver...my S/O said it was a "train wreck" rolled her eyes and went back inside her house! I already had several Mopars but had just purchased a seriously cherry tripple black 67 Bonneville Vert 428....(THAT she was OK with)... I bought the cuda to kinda start a bond with her son.....shortly after fetching the vehicle he discovered that girls were made of sugar & spice and that pathetically phony ID could be used to purchase BEER!! Needless to say he wasn't around very much and when he was around he moped and whined to get back to sugar, spice & beer!!! I guess the thrill of re-building your own vehicle and learning what everything does took a back seat to sugar,spice & beer......OH YA and Poker?!?! ... well about a year into the process ( which I was already doing pretty much by myself ) he shows up at her house with an Army recruiter? Turns out...missy sugar & spice was frosting the cake of some guy that her son absolutely despised!! SO while sonney boy was off drinkin beer & playing poker ALL NIGHT LONG....missy sugar & spice got busy with this other kid ( LOL)
SO Sonny was gonna show her what a baddass he was and joined the Army eventually disarming IED's in Iraq!!! ( for that he gets high marks!! for the reason he did that, he is an idiot! Love of country= good show off to a chick = dumbass!) He has my ultimate respect for his service....but experience has taught me ( who did the very same thing) that she does not remember your name 15 mins after you are gone LOLOLOL...ANYWAY
Here I am with this freshly media blasted perfectly clean NO RUST holes anywhere 66 and about 5k in brand new parts & interior and my "helper" has just joined the army?!?!? Needless to say before he joined his lack of enthusiasm in the face of sugar & spice, beer & poker led to more than a few "discussions" between his mom & I. I had funded the whole shooting match trying to teach this kid something and hopefully do some "male bonding" in the process and begin a friendship with him.....might as well asked Larry the cable guy to wear SLEEVES!!!! Further "discussions" regarding her children's behavior and my 66 FOLLY resulted in a parting of the ways ( best thing that ever happened to me LOL) so for the next 5 years I set a course, made plans, and little by little put them into action.... She and I remained friends, it was better that way...and every so often she would launch a JAB...." hows that POS cuda? get anything done yet?".... I let it ride and stayed my course....in Dec of 2010 it was fully assembled and running....ONLY I had made some pretty serious mods from the initial plans made with her son.... Like the entire drive train was re-thunk and re-vamped and swapped out to now include a nicely built 340 with a nicely built 727 and an 8.75 sure grip with 3.55's...nice spunky combo....a few friends jumped in and told me they thought I had something "special" on my hands and that I had done quite a nice job......over the xmas holidays the ex took yet another shot at me & the cuda and asked me if "it would ever be finished" I let it go.....my friends prodded & shoved and told me to submit it to the Detroit Auto Rama....I took the app but never filled it out.....went up to the shop one day to help with rubbing it out for the final time and there were these two guys there that were "eyeballin" my cuda.....after a few jokes and banter, they introduced themselves....one was a local classic appraiser and the other guy was the director of the Detroit Autorama!!! he told me he would love to have my car participate!!!! Holy crap!!!
As a good percentage of you already know I am rarely at a loss for words!! BUT There I was like a deer in the headlights with my mouth hanging open!!! SO I signed up and took her down there last weekend in February which as most mid-westerners know is typically the coldest shitty-est weather known to man...and FEB 2011 was NO exception. TOOK forever to get her clean after the trip down to Cobo hall, but we did it....the last day is judgement day and 15 mins after she took a second place trophy the ex and her kid showed up.......the kid could not look me in the eye and SHE was full of "I knew you would do it" compliments....... DAMN it was SA-WEEEET to watch all those years of JABS turn into CROW and DAMN WAS IT SA-WEET to watch her eat that crow and watch the kid squirm!!!! SO did my "EX" S/O like my 66 Cuda..... not exactly
BUT WHO CARES WHAT SHE LIKES? I GOT THE CAR AND THE TROPHY AND A DATE WITH ONE OF THE SMOKIN HOT RAMA MODELS TO BOOT!!!...WHO STOPPED BY TO PECK MY CHEEK AND WHISPER IN MY EAR JUST AS THE EX WAS WALKIN UP......
DAMN it was good to be me that Sunday!!!...Monday wasn't too bad either if ya get my drift!!!