Okay, so they really DIDN'T make a Buddy Rally. But I did!! About a week ago, my club-mate, Samantha (also known at Hot Tomato...it's a good story) called me to tell me the stickers she ordered for me had arrived and in the interests of a good scooter ride, said she'd run them up to me that following Monday. So, on that Monday, at about 2:30 in the afternoon our beloved Hot Tomato arrived in my driveway on her Yamaha Majesty. She hung around for a short time to meet my wife and listen to some cuts from Dry Heat's new album (the band I'm keyboardist in), then she was back on her Majesty and rolling for home in Tempe, AZ.
Back to the stickers. One was simply the saying "If it's not Scottish, it's crap". I had seen the sticker on the back of Hot Tomato's pickup when she came up to pick up the '66 Allstate she bought from me (more on that later) and since we are both of Scottish extraction, I commented that I liked it. She told me there was a little shop in the mall near her house that made custom stickers and upon hearing that, I order one. THEN I got the idea for my new Rally Stripe! Being a keyboardist, it was just natural that I'd get a sticker in the form of piano keys. These were what Hot Tomato brought to me.
That evening, I applied the Scottish saying to the inside of the front shield just in front of and above my feet. I then applied the keys to the nose section of the front shield from the horn cover down. It was about a week later before I got to apply them to the short section from the horn cover to the top of the shield. Well, it's done now, and I humbly submit a picture for your perusal.
Now then, about the Allstate. Yes...it's gone. Along about the first of December the bottom just flat dropped out of the housing market here in Arizona. I drive a truck that delivers dry cement powder to various concrete batch plants throughout Arizona. They discovered they didn't need much, which filtered down to me...the lowly delivery driver. I began receiving weekly checks that went as low as $64.00 and averaged around $200.00. Tough to make a living on that! Finally, about the middle of January, I was about to have my car repossessed since I couldn't make the payments...it was all I could do to make rent! So, I advertised the '66 Sears Bluebadge project I had on the Scarab's Scooter Club forum. Several phone calls later, Hot Tomato and her significant other, Tryg, decided they needed it. The following day Hot Tomato showed up in my driveway with her pickup and the asking money. She took the project and I get to keep the Chrysler one more month. The two of them are really excited since this is their first restoration project. It went to a good home with good parents who I believe will take good care of it. I'm happy.
Well, that's what's up for now. More as the weather allows...
C-ya...ride on,
--Keys
