[Shotimes] Should I destroy a 91+??

[Kerby Haltom]

I second Steve's comments.

Somebody piss is someone's Wheaties or something?

Kerby

At 10:28 AM 1/10/03 -0500, Steve Tatro wrote:
>This is all bullshit.  People have no idea what Al does or goes through,
>and the work he puts in every day to provide parts to keep the
>enthusiasts' SHOs looking and running well.
>
>Personally, I think Al's doing a great thing.  Where else could we look
>to for an honest place to find very hard to find (and sometimes
>obsolete) parts to keep these old SHOs running?  I just ordered a couple
>of things from Al, was a huge pain in the ass as I kept changing what I
>wanted, kept bothering him with questions, and now that my shipment is
>on the way (which by that way was shipped out in very quick fashion) I
>don't need one of the items I bought from him.  He called me on the
>phone ASAP and told me just to send it back and I'd get a refund.  Where
>else can you get that kind of service?  Ebay?  Hell no.  Junk yard?
>Good luck.  How 'bout you call up your local yard, if you can find one
>with a SHO, and ask them to take and email you a digital picture of a
>used part before you commit to buying it?  Think they'll do that for ya?
>
>If you want to start a "SHO Saver" business, where you find these old
>SHOs and restore them to their full glory and sell them to enthusiasts,
>that's fine.  I wish I had the time to restore this particular '91+, as
>it's exactly what I'd want in a Gen1.  Al has helped hundreds if not
>thousands of SHOwners, which is more help than probably 99% of the
>people on this list can claim.
>
>Thanks again Al.  Let me know when you find the particular wheel I'm
>looking for.
>
>Steve Tatro
>Red/Black '93 with 164k miles
>Cincinnati, Ohio
>www.picturetrail.com/stevetatro
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
>[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of alfitz@alfitz.com
>Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:11 AM
>To: _SHOTIMES II; Midwest SHO Specialists SHOtimes
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Should I destroy a 91+??
>
>
>Mike, I just have to respond to this email.
>
>YOU SAID:
>   If you
> > can't sell them don't buy them.  Let someone else enjoy the SHO for
> > the first time.
>
>I buy these SHOs all over the country and the people I am competing with
>when I buy them are not kids looking for a SHO, but with scrap iron
>dealers who are looking for iron. They don't give a shit about the rare
>SHO+ spoiler, or the 3.0 YAMAHA engine, or the rod shifter, or the
>fiberglass hood. To them, it's just 'iron weight', or useless fiberglass
>scrap. Most salvage yards won't buy a car older than 6-8 years old,
>which leaves me and the scrap dealers. I buy these cars from facilities
>that the general public is not allowed, so the chances of these SHOs
>going to an enthusiast is VERY small. How many GEN Is have you seen at a
>salvage yard? They get shredded or crushed.
>
>YOU SAID:
> > I don't want to sound mean, but something about having 50 SHOs on hand
>
> > and very few for sale scares me.  I haven't sent you hate mail, nor
> > would I,
>but
> > I can definetly see where those people are coming from.
>
>Better that I have some complete SHOs for sale and lots of parts, than
>having them shredded or crushed.
>
>YOU SAID:
> > See, now I'm sorry, but this particular car I asked you about.  I
> > wanted
>it,
> > but I didn't want to bid on it and drive the price up for you so I let
>
> > it go.  By just not bidding on it at all, someone who wanted to fix up
>
> > a rare car of which there are only 700 (in that color) could have had
> > it for what you paid and the car would have never been in danger of
> > being stripped.
>
>The SHO you wanted, the green SHO+ in Colorado, is not the car I have. I
>never bought that car in Colorado. Further, I don't 'crush' or 'shred'
>my SHOs. Of all the SHOs I've owner, only one of them went to the
>crusher, and there was absolutely nothing left of it.
>
>I guess I just can't win, if I sell parts, people think I'm a cannibal
>and if I sell them whole, they think I'm gouging. This is FUN!
>
>Al Fitzgerald
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