[Shotimes] Lowrider in museum

George Fourchy krazgeo@comcast.net
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:09:27 -0700


On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:10:14 -0500, Donald Mallinson wrote:

>I don't know George's situation, but every museum is different.  
>
>kenneth martin wrote:
>
>> George,who told you lowrider deserves to be in a museum, how is that 
>> possible, am I missing somthing, where and when is this going to take 
>> place?

There is a locally owned Ford automotive museum in Sacramento.  I haven't been to it
in several years, but our local SHO club visited it in the mid '90s.  I have often
talked to the curators at local automotive fairs, and told them I had three cars I
wanted to let them display.  They said 'bring them on'.  When we were there, the
only 'modern' cars they had were a Maverick, a Boss 302, and (I think) a '60s
Galaxie.  The rest were pre-war Fords....hundreds of them.  The Boss made me think
of putting my cars there.  They do not take possession, but credit their ownership
to the person who loans them the car, which stays registered (non-opped) to the
actual owner.  They're insured for fire and theft only...for me that's 15 bucks a
year each.

I want to put three cars there...my Boss, which is painted Bud Moore red, white, and
black...and runs on LPG.  It's too inefficient and valuable to be on the street.  My
T-bird Turbo Coupe went 200,000 miles on one tune-up and 1 fuel injector.  The Hall
sensor failed at 135,000 miles, but I consider that a problem caused by the TFI
module recall that occured during its lifetime....the TFI failed first, and took the
Hall with it.  That's not something I hold against the car.  It would go 136 mph
(this is a Pinto engine!), got 33 mpg at 90 mph, and was the MT car of the year in
1987.  

Then...the Lowrider.  Newer folks on the list don't know its history.  Its life
story up to about 2002 can be found on my website.     www.krazgeo.com/Lowrdr.html  
 It's a long read, but I cover it pretty well, and it definitely isn't boring.  Set
some time aside to read it.  (You think YOUR car has had a rough life?)  It was the
SHO of the quarter in the last issue of the SHO Registry Magazine, Fall of 2000.  
Its main claim to fame is that despite all that has befallen it, it just runs and
runs.  The ills it is beginning to have now...EGR and PFE sensor failures...are the
first indication that it _might_ not last 50 years.  Actually, all that is fixed
now..just needed cleaning and a bolt tightened, so it still might.  It was fast
approaching 300,000 miles with not one major failure (which it generated itself)
that took it off the road before it's last adventure.  There is still a chance that
it can get that mileage before I retire, which will be in 15 months or so.  When I
do, it will.  You can see the most recent chain of events on the link    
www.krazgeo.com/Owie.html    showing where it dodged yet another bullet.  It was
officially worth $1,625 when this event occured, so if I wanted it fixed, I had to
do it myself.  I did.  

The car will always be worth $25,000 to me.  I'd do it again.....but this time, if
someone hits me, I'd sue the people that hit it so THEY would pay (their insurance
company won't...that's a foregone conclusion)....and I wouldn't sacrifice it to keep
Eva from hitting someone else.  

It is a legend.

Sorry for the rambling.....it's the way I am when this subject comes up.

George