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Blazooki said:
Here's my hood ornament and a short story on how the truck got named "Shrunken Ned"


The back story: When my boy was six we went to Disney World for his first time. He was a huge Indiana Jones fan at the time. All we talked about was how great the ride was gonna be and he decided he would go on that ride first. We got to the park, went straight to Indiana Jones and got on. It scared him absolutely to death. Like eyes clenched, head down, white knuckle to death. When we walked out he said "I am never going on that ride again!!!!"

In an effort to help get him past it, we walked across from the ride entrance to the Jungle Ride/Indiana Jones gift shop and went inside. I hoped mabe seeing all the cool stuff would make it not so scary. If you've ever been in there you might have seen the fortune telling machine of the British explorer whose a shrunken head wearing a pith helmet. His name is Shrunken Ned. I wasn't paying much attention to the details at the time and my boy asked me what that was? I explained it was fortune telling machine and he asked me for 50 cents to try it. I gave him the change and then walked off to look at stuff.

After a bit, he ran up to me and said "Ok I'm ready to go." I said ok. Then he said "NO, I'm ready to go back on Indian Jones. I TALKED TO SHRUNKEN NED AND HE TOLD ME I SHOULD FACE MY FEARS. So I'm going again." I was like???.....ok lets go. We rode it and he kept his eyes open the entire time (cept for the part where you have to close your eyes or you get turned to stone). We rode it 2 more times during that trip and every other ride in both parks. He went on them all with no fear.

So Shrunken Ned became kind of a family hero. When he was having a problem my wife or I would remind him of what Ned said. When It came time to name the truck, Ned came up and it was a no brainer. I looked around and found a shrunken head shift nob on Ebay. I threw some orange paint on it and its going on the hood.

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Thinking about Jack and remembering this story.
 
So updating thread.

Jack's services are going to be on the 15th. He and his family are getting a police escort from I think the house to the chapel where the services are going to be. Eric and my family are going to up two days earlier to get Ned ready. Devlin and I are going to drive Ned in the escort with him holding the ashes, I am driving.
 
kgblazerfive said:
So updating thread.

Jack's services are going to be on the 15th. He and his family are getting a police escort from I think the house to the chapel where the services are going to be. Eric and my family are going to up two days earlier to get Ned ready. Devlin and I are going to drive Ned in the escort with him holding the ashes, I am driving.
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Only the best for him. Bless you, your family, and your friends
 
kgblazerfive said:
So updating thread.

Jack's services are going to be on the 15th. He and his family are getting a police escort from I think the house to the chapel where the services are going to be. Eric and my family are going to up two days earlier to get Ned ready. Devlin and I are going to drive Ned in the escort with him holding the ashes, I am driving.
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