[Shotimes] Hold it a minute.....was: Re: SHO replacement

[James F. Ryan III]

POS?  Well, once again your view is severely skewed by that California
living.  I see plenty of Tauri (and SHOs) that are falling apart at the
seams.  They have rust in inconceivable places, like the middle of a door
panel, as well as the usual places like wheel well openings, the trunklid
edge, around the taillights, and my favorite - anywhere near the rear
license plate.  Of course we can't forget the impossibly rusted on parts of
the undercarriage/suspension/exhaust.

Plain Jane?  The extreme 'aero' styling of the Gen1s?  The 'everything oval'
styling of the Gen3s?  Plain Jane?  If any MY should be called Plane Jane it
would be the very boring, blend-in-with-the-crowd Gen4s.  The Taurus was
never the flagship of the make, it was merely the cash-cow.  If you want the
cow to keep making cash you've got to put a little pizzazz in it, so how can
it be Plane Jane?

Tell you what George, why don't you bring the Lowrider out here for a year
and drive on our weather-ravaged rough roads, and let the car experience the
extreme temps and weather conditions of all 4 seasons.  Then when something
breaks and you need to fix it while lying on the ice-covered ground in 0
degree weather, we'll see how fast your attitude changes.  When you struggle
for 2 hours, in the freezing cold, to remove a single rusted bolt and you
continually smash your frozen and bloodied hand into the same piece of
jagged metal, we'll see how fast the tools start flying through the air.
When the rust begins to deteriorate your pristine new paint job, we'll see
how fast the expletives start to fly at the poor defense-less car.  Finally,
when your famous 5-minute strut removal job now becomes a 5-hour ordeal, the
letters POS will finally enter your lexicon.

Our (east coast) vehicles may be tough to work on and they may fall apart
alot quicker than they do out there, but here are some incentives:  1-we
have plenty of electrical power, 2-we have plenty of drinking water,
3-wildfires - what are they?, and 4-the east coast is NOT about to fall into
the ocean.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Fourchy" <krazgeo@comcast.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 3:55 PM
Subject: [Shotimes] Hold it a minute.....was: Re: SHO replacement


> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:25:00 -0400, Ron Nottingham wrote:
>
> >A SHO is a kick-ass engine in a POS Taurus body.
>
> OK......I'm not gonna yell here, but it's not a POS.  It's 'plain-jane'.
There's a
> BIG difference between the two terms, and that fact was, and still is,
part of the
> attraction
> of a SHO.
>
> GM pickups and two door coupes from the 70's and 80's were POS's...the
doors would
> fall off the bodies after a couple of years of duty as ranch trucks, even
in
> California, with no rust.  The 2 door coupes from that era were the same
way.....you
> still see them now....Monte Carlos, Firebirds, Camaros....with doors that
hang down
> and won't latch because the hinges are shot.
>
> I possess 5 Taurus bodies (bought 2 of them new or almost new) myself, and
know of
> literally dozens of others, SHO and otherwise, whose doors sound the same
when they
> are shut as they did the day they were built.  The Lowrider is on its way
back from
> the moon, and was owned by a door slamming druggie for part of its pre
100k mile
> life.  It's still the same as new.
>
> Taurus doors are light (relatively)....my '87 Turbo Coupe, long retired,
still shuts
> its doors exactly the way it did when new.....they're very heavy, and have
200k
> miles on the original hinges.  When I first got the Lowrider, I noticed
how light
> the doors were, and didn't think they'd last like they have.
>
> Anything can be mistreated, but my farmer friends did not mistreat their
Chevies,
> and after seeing my F350 in 1988, they've had Ford trucks ever since, and
love them.
>
> Watch that 'POS' label, please......
>
> George
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