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

[Ron Nottingham]

I haven't sold the SHO yet. I still haven't found the replacement... I still
love my SHO, don't get me wrong by my comments. It's just when I went to put
new brakes on the BMW, I got larger diameter slotted Brembo disks, Pagid
street/track compound pads, Brembo 4-piston (f) and 2-piston (r) calipers,
and stainless brake lines for $750. That's at all four corners. To get this
kind of brake performance out of an SHO, you would have to spend well over
double that.

Battery in the trunk? Cost $$$ for the SHO, from the factory on the BMW.
Leather? All cracked up on the SHO, even though I have tried to keep it in
good shape, but still looks new on the BMW. From the outside, it looks like
any other Taurus. But once inside (I love the seats!!!) and the engine turns
over and settles down, then pull out onto the street and rev that
Yamaha...... I love the sound the Yamaha makes. Just before the tach sweeps
past 4k rpm, and the secondaries kick in is just lovely. Screaming all the
way to 7k. What a rush!!!!

But alas... all drives must come to an end. I get out... and that GT40 I was
in suddenly turns into a Taurus again....

When I do find the BMW that shouts my name, be it an M3 4-door, or early M5
(88 or early 90's), I will pass my SHO on to someone that would take care of
her. She has given me lots of joy, and I will sadly miss her. She warmed my
heart, even after I had put her pasture after I bought my E30 M3. When my
E30 M3 was totalled out, she was there to mend my broken heart.

Many have also taken my comment on POS Taurus to a bad light. The overall
body, chassis, etc is good, but it's a Taurus body. It does not illicit any
passion in its looks. The Taurus looks good, is pleasing to the eye, but it
doesn't stir any emotions.

Ron Nottingham - Dalton, GA
90 SHO
89 325i
(OO==00==OO)
"It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth" <_cajun_@myway.com>


> George,calm down!I'm glad you sold your SHO Ron.Attitude like that
Sucks.My Gen 1 was bought for the body style.It was the #1 selling point.I
had no idea about the Yamaha engine,none.After the test drive I opened the
hood and looked.DAMN.WOW!!!!!I didn't get into the secondaries until a week
later.The look on my face and the feeling in my gut was, KICKASS!!!YEAH!6
months later I found SHO-SHO she is my '92.She was almost perfect.I bought
her for the refinement in the body style.The engine was not the reason why I
bought either of my SHO's.IT WAS BODY STYLE!
>
>  --- On Sun 07/25, George Fourchy < krazgeo@comcast.net > wrote:
> From: George Fourchy [mailto: krazgeo@comcast.net]
>
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 09:25:00 -0400, Ron Nottingham wrote:<br><br>>A SHO is
a kick-ass engine in a POS Taurus body. <br><br>OK......I'm not gonna yell
here, but it's not a POS.  It's 'plain-jane'.  There's a<br>BIG difference
between the two terms, and that fact was, and still is, part of
the<br>attraction <br>of a SHO.<br><br>GM pickups and two door coupes from
the 70's and 80's were POS's...the doors would<br>fall off the bodies after
a couple of years of duty as ranch trucks, even in<br>California, with no
rust.  The 2 door coupes from that era were the same way.....you<br>still
see them now....Monte Carlos, Firebirds, Camaros....with doors that hang
down<br>and won't latch because the hinges are shot.<br><br>I possess 5
Taurus bodies (bought 2 of them new or almost new) myself, and know
of<br>literally dozens of others, SHO and otherwise, whose doors sound the
same when they<br>are shut as they did the day they were built.  The
Lowrider is on its way back from<br>the moon!
> , and was owned by a door slamming druggie for part of its pre 100k
mile<br>life.  It's still the same as new.<br><br>Taurus doors are light
(relatively)....my '87 Turbo Coupe, long retired, still shuts<br>its doors
exactly the way it did when new.....they're very heavy, and have
200k<br>miles on the original hinges.  When I first got the Lowrider, I
noticed how light<br>the doors were, and didn't think they'd last like they
have.<br><br>Anything can be mistreated, but my farmer friends did not
mistreat their Chevies,<br>and after seeing my F350 in 1988, they've had
Ford trucks ever since, and love them.<br><br>Watch that 'POS' label,
please......<br><br>George<br>______________________________________________
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