[Shotimes] SHOtimers long gone

[Donelson Don]

Like Mark N. said in a earlier post ... there are a few of us old timers ... original SHOTIMES members that have been here through thick and thin. Think I got on sometime 92 or 93 when I started Donelson motorsports.

There have been a few years where I was absent and not real active on the list. I think that year was when my car was at FPS getting the blower on it ... didnt see the car for almost a year !

Things have changed and u do have a lot of old faces and many many new faces too. I havent read all the post's but there was a guy who had attended all of the earlier conventions and I havent heard much of him lately. I know Don M knows him and if memory serves me correct he was accompanied by his son. How do i say this ... well , he was huge .. very big ! and wore overalls.

I have great memories over the years and some very good friends that I have met and dont regret a minute but with all the money I have spent over the past 10 years (which is considerable ); I would have spent the money on a good Cobra replica car.

I love my SHO and now having the knowledge of being able to build my own motors and trannies, well changing vehicles now is doubtful. Since I know how to tear down and build these motors ( now doing it for customers ) and now being able to do rebuild trannies and install quaifes ... it would be stupid to switch vehicles.  Nothing worse in breaking something and not knowing what broke or how to fix the problem. 

My ultimate goal is to get a 89 ( that i have in storage ) and get it ready to race SOLO I in SCCA racing.

Long live the SHO ! 

dond


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Donald Mallinson <dmall@mwonline.net>
Reply-To: dmall@mwonline.net
Date:  Mon, 05 May 2003 10:06:08 -0500

>Ron,
>
>Yes I think the SHO Sable was up for sale.  Probably still 
>with paint peeling!  I never rode in it, but he claimed it 
>was real fast.
>
>There are a lot of people that I miss from the earlier 
>conventions.  Some of them I thought would be around 
>forever, and I miss them, but people sell cars and lose 
>interest in the club, it is a natural thing.  I hope all 
>those people realize, that I and most of the other current 
>SHO owners don't care what they are driving now, if they 
>want to come, they will be welcome at any SHO event!
>
>Don Mallinson
>
>Ron Porter wrote:
>> 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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