[Shotimes] 93 sho limited edition

[Donald Mallinson]

There is a page on the club web site that details the SHO 
Plus more than anywhere else.  Production numbers, projected 
color distribution (an educated guess) and more.

http://www.shoclub.com      go to the SHO History section.

The Plus is worth a little more to some SHO people (like me) 
than a regular '91, and Ron is right, a four door sedan with 
  FWD won't ever be a true high dollar collectible, but 
people still buy and sell Edsel's when the Ford and Mercury 
versions were much better, and there will be people that buy 
and sell SHO's long after I and a lot of others are gone 
from the earth.

The main thing is that cars make a VERY bad "investment". 
So if by "collectible" you mean investment, then no, the SHO 
and 95+% of all cars made world-wide are not collectible.

If by "collectible" you mean there is a market for the cars 
and people still like to own them, drive them and look at 
them, then yes, the SHO is a sure fire collectible long into 
the future.  Go to any car show or cruise-in and look at the 
variety of old and average cars that people love to look at. 
  Anything nice, interesting and well maintained is a 
collectible.  Some people collect salt and pepper shakers. 
I could care less about them, but they are collectible.

One thing the world of collectible "stuff" has taught me is 
that you can't guess what someone will pay big bucks for in 
the future.  Comic books?  lunch boxes?  2 door sedan ex 
race cars?  The SHO?  maybe, but don't bet the farm on it.

Keep and maintain your SHO because you like driving it, not 
because you want to make money off it, because you are very 
likely to lose that bet.

Don Mallinson

Carl Prochilo wrote:
> Your point on the VIN designation is valid, but there can't be that many of
> these cars around.  At most you have a month or two of a production run
> before they retooled for the gen 2.
> 
> Was an official number ever published for how many Plus cars were
> manufactured?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
> To: "'Carl Prochilo'" <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>;
> <Shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] 93 sho limited edition
> 
> 
> I wouldn't.
> 
> There was nothing "limited" about it, it was basically every SHO built after
> May '91 or so (yeah, I know that we have now seen some from April '91).
> 
> Plus, the Plus cars never existed from a collectors standpoint since there
> is no VIN designation proving that it was a Plus. Without the window
> sticker, you can't prove it, which makes it near worthless as a collector
> car down the road.
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