Bubba is tared of driven his pick em up trul and wants one of them Ford 'Splorers. Him anc Clem is a ateing lunch down at the Varsity and Bubba is a tellen Clem what he done found.
Clem tells him he b crazy to want one of them truks what reck and blow up. Bubba says he wants a 'Splorer no matter what anybody says 'bout them. Bubba, once that massive 67 IQ gets set on sumthang, he gonna get it.
His pal that scuba man from Sorysota, FL tells Bubba of a place in Clearwater, FL where you can get new used Explorers reel cheep. Bunna flys down to Tamper and his pal meets him at the airport and theys drive over to Clearwater to look at an Explorer. First, Bubba wants to feed. They stop at a Krystal and go in to sat down to ate. Bubba orders 17 of them lil greasy delights, a couple orders of fries and a big ole coke ( they never heard of no RC Coke Coler - must be owned by yankees ), a bowl of chili fer desert.
They head across the long bridge to Clearwater and to a car joint called the Auto Port. Theys finsd it and theys a bunch of shiny Explorers there The salesman/owner, a nice feller called Jim, shows them a heap of truks. Bubba wants to drive sum of em and Jim tosses him the keys. He checks out a heap of 99's, one with a 8, one with a reguler 6 and one of them upstairs cam 6's.
The upstairs cam 6 runs like a scalded dawg. Its got one of them holes in the top too. Its got 4 doors and is a kinda brown color. Bubba likes it cause its got 30,000 miles; and when Bubba takes a shire to sumthang, he gonna get it.
He axes ole Jim what he wants fer the truk and he is telled $17,500. Well, Bubba knows how to wheel and deal and an't fraid to take a walk. He gotta buy a truk cause he had a one way airplanr ride to Tamper ( poor feller can't figer out how to buy a go back ticket ).
Sumtimes when ole Bubba stands up he scares the mess out of folks cause he be 6'5 and weighs in at 287 pounds, His chest is huge and his britches has a waist of onlst 34 inchs. Well he tells ole Jim that is jus too darn much and he ain't gonna pay that much. Jim looks at him and wonders what turnup truck this dude fell off of. He axes Bubba to make him an offer. Wekk that takes Bubba by suprise, he ain't never meeted a nice can peddler. He ponders this a minute and tells him he will give him $16,000 for the truk. Jim holds out his hand and says you got a deal. Damn, Bubba thanks, he mighta had offered less, oh well.
Bubba reaches in his pocket and pulls out a wad of hundred doller bills that is 3 inches thick. He tells Jim to figer the final price and he peels off the hundreds, signs the papers, says goodby to Jim. Then Bubba and his pal head over to the Wing House on Highway 19 to are wings and peek at the semi nakked womans who fetch your foods.
Over supper, Bubba and his pal start to talking about what theys can do to make this truck a special one fer Bubba. He wants it to look good and to run good too.
TO BE CONTINUED