[Shotimes] SHOtimers long gone

[Ron Porter]

Don,

Don't exactly remember how I found SFSN back then, but it was probably just
by poking around on Prodigy. I was already a member of the Registry, as I
still have a copy of the letter I wrote to Bill back in April '91 when I saw
a mention of the Registry in a tiny article in AutoWeek, and I wanted to
join.

Unfortunately, I missed the first two Conventions, but have been to the
rest. I still kick myself for not going to Peoria. I was living in the
Chicago area, and I was planning on driving down for one of the days
(Saturday, IIRC) to see what the deal was, but I never did. I didn't know
any other SHO owners except the folks on Prodigy. Later in '92 Eric Shea
mailed me a flyer about the SHOcago club, and I joined that. That was a
great group! They had planned a caravan to Atlanta for the 2nd Convention,
but that Convention was the only one that I truly could not make due to work
commitments.

As I go through my pictures from the earlier Conventions, I recognize faces,
but forget names. One of these days I'll have to load a number of these
early Convention pictures on my PictureTrail site.

Wasn't Vito's old SHO Sable (or was it a Taurus?) up for sale somewhere
within the last couple of years?

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Donald Mallinson
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 9:28 AM
To: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
Cc: 'shotimes'
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] SHOtimers long gone


Ron,

sorry to say that I didn't save anything from the internet 
on Prodigy.

Remember that in Dallas I put up a display for the internet 
groups to raise interest at that convention?

I was on Prodigy sometime in 1991 (don't remember the exact 
date, with the SFN topic and it lasted a long time till 
Prodity started charging for each e-mail or something like 
that.

I have had my '89 since that time in 1991 and was a charter 
member of the SHO Registry.  Bill STaib still has his '89.

I am not sure, but I might be the last person or one of the 
last two or three that have been to every convention?

Anyone else make all of them?  Ron?

remember Vito?  I have a picture of him at one of the 
conventions on the wall in my garage with that patented 
scowl.  Sure would be nice to find him and get him back to a 
convention.  He could be a lot of fun.

Don Mallinson


Ron Porter wrote:
> I wonder if Don ever made a list of the original folks who contributed to
> his SFSN (SHO Fast Sedan News) BB on the old Prodigy service? I remember
> Vadim (before and during the time he started the SHO Shop), Ted Breaux,
and
> Mike Wesley as a few of the early contributors.
> 
> Ron Porter 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 3:59 PM
> To: shotimes
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] SHOtimers long gone
> 
> 
> 
>>I'm just sitting here thinking of all of the dangerous things that I
>>have learned over the past 5 years...amazing
> 
> 
>     I think I started lurking in late '96 or early '97.  Right around when
I
> got my 92.  Doug Lewis was still around in those days.  Josh T. got his
> green '95 and got on the list about the same time I did.  There are still
a
> lot of folks here now that were there then.  Ron P.  has been around
> forever, Don M., Don D.  etc
> 
> mark
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