Ophelia changes over the years 3

	Well the party is over and I gotta get busy puttin' this thing together. I got several hero's that I look up to in regard to buildin' machines, one of course is Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, amongst the plethora of other builders include Mark Moriarity and the other is Fritz (I'll be darned if'in I can remember his last name) but anyway here I am with my Superman shirt that Fritz sent me. It's gettin' pretty dirty and messed up these dayz but it seems to bring me luck of some sort and I always wear it when I'm werkin' on my stuff. Thanx Fritz!
Now ya can see that I've pretty much dolled this thing up and put on all the newer garbage from the mill I blew up. Lookin good!

Heres a snap of the finished item. gettin' closer!

Well the next thing on my list was to put the mill into Ophelia's engine compartment and just like takin' the thing out I had to deal with puttin' the thing in and maybe havin' someone to work the top end and help me align the motor with the transmission so I could bolt in the trans converter while havin' someone turn the crank to make it easier for me. so I called my friend John Huston again and he obliged and helped me out with it. After that it still took me a couple of weeks to get all of the little stuff out of the way. I ended up needing a carb that was in better shape then the one that came with the engine. on my old mill I had a 4 barrel Holly and on the new mill I had this 2 barrel piece of junk. but at the same time I didn't want to have to swap out the intake manifolds I just wanted to get her on the road. So once again John came to my rescue and turned me on to an old 2 barrel that he had from one of his old F 100's .. man was that a life saver.

I also had a few other issues to deal with like the timing and some other junk. So it took me another week or so of messin' with the mill to get her all dialed in. but once I got everything together IT WAS ALL GOOD!


A done deal!
	Coolflex kit got me out of a jam...
In closing this here chapter of the further adventures of Moldy and Ophelia, I gotta a few more things to say. So what's in a name? Ophelia was named by someone that was once very close to me. Ophelia namesake comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet. And very suiting if I do say so myself. Of all the pivotal characters in Hamlet, Ophelia has the potential to become a tragic heroine or to overcome the adversities inflicted upon her, the ironic thing is that she crumbles into insanity... hmmmm. This is because Ophelia herself is not as important as her representation of the dual nature of women in the play. Ophelia's distinct purpose is to show at once Hamlet's warped view of women as callous sexual predators, and the innocence and virtue of women. Now I'm not Hamlet and if anything, I have learned through my relationship with Ophelia and the one that named her, to give nothing but respect to both women and machines.

If any of you love a machine, your car a motorcycle etc., like I love my car, people may say that your a little bit obsessed. Maybe distracted? .... what ever.... I'll tell you this.... Ophelia has been the best distraction in my life, better than any drug, better than my favorite drink or food, better than any movie, better than TV, and even better than any Shrink! Better than anything except of course my dog "Tulsa" (best friend I ever had). What I'm getting at is that I pretty much did 99% of this last project on my own. While working on Ophelia it allowed me to think not only of how I was to get around all of the obstacle to get her running again but about a lot of other things that effect my everyday life. I don't know what it is about working on something that you love, I guess it's like magic! To me everything has a price but Ophelia is a keeper. I've been offered 10 times what I paid for her in the past and I do nothing but hang on to her. I figure I'll have her until the day I leave this earth. Talk about sick. I've even thought how kewl it would be to be buried in her or to have someone put me in her driver seat and drive me and Ophelia off a pier into the ocean where her and I could become some natural reef for little fishes. Or here is something real gruesome, have my body cremated and have the ashes welded shut in the ash tray or better yet have my ashes mixed in with some paint and give Ophelia the paint job she's been needing. Ha fat chance. Well anyway there ya have it. Ophelia 2005.. Wot's next? Well like I said she needs a paint job and I been wanting to get to her interior now for several years now. No, wait! Put some kind of hybrid mill in her as to save on gas? Hmm.. I'll think of sumpthin' Just gotta come up with the bucks and the time. So, Wish us luck thanx fer droppin' in and well keep ya all posted. Love, Moldy and Ophelia