LOL...thats a cool pic!! I love a Johnnyrude!
Sounds like I would check the water pump. Sounds like she may be getting hot...if hot starts are hard to do and cold are good. Also may be looking at a carb job...then run seafoam.
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 25:15