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

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:50:38 -0500

What does baseball have to do with it?

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-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Kenneth
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:16 AM
To: av8r567@optonline.net; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Hold it a minute.....was: Re: SHO replacement

Typical yankee bullshit talk

 --- On Sun 07/25, James F. Ryan III < av8r567@optonline.net > wrote:
From: James F. Ryan III [mailto: av8r567@optonline.net]
To: krazgeo@comcast.net, shotimes@autox.team.net
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:01:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Hold it a minute.....was: Re: SHO replacement

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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