Joe,
Don't worry. You don't sound as if you are begging at all. I just got home as it is 74 here today and just beautiful so I took the 69 Cobra for a drive over to the dam and then out to a new street where I could put it in 3rd gear and run it up to around 5600 to blow it out. And of course I passed one of our what passes for police and by the time they turned around I had went into 4th and was long gone. All the city workers and most of the cops know my car anyway but with it home in the driveway they won't bother me. And I don't drive it very fast as those are the original tires and almost 50 years old now.
Ron