when my mate from texas comes over to see me and he is a real petrol head, what ever car or truck ive got , he has to tinker with it to make it run better and he always always says pop the hood ill take a look inside, hmm perhaps the line refers to painting out the sheriff logo then looking inside the engine bay before the engine tear down, just a thought, but when he came over last time he said the same thing to the friend he brought with him to visit me and as soon as he said ill just take a look inside, his buddy walked straight to the front of the car to pop the hood, maybe a texas thing dunno