For starters I'd tell the wife that she is so high ranking in your opinion that she should be riding in a general's car and that you have found one,a DeSoto.
You must have been a very good boy in 2005 for Santa to pay you such a late visit. You must be a great guy in general to have been entrusted with the secret and to have been given exclusive salvage rights. To top that off, you are a Stovebolter.
Congratulations on your most excellent find.