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

[Shylo McKinsey]

I think half the reason Ford didn't change the
bodystyle more was the fact that maybe it was SUPPOSED
to be a sleeper; a Taurus that could blow the doors
off other vehicles or that would suprise 'vettes or
stang's that it could keep up. 

When I saw my ;91 in the paper, I hoped that that was
the year they changed the body style (I didn't know
squat about SHO's then). Then when I saw it, I was
kinda dissappointed...but as time went on, I grew to
like the "boxy" Gen 1's better then the Gen 2's.

I know the body isn't that radical, but it's nice to
roll up to a late '90's ricer, have the guy scoff at
me, then blow him away. ;-)

Shylo McKinsey

'91 White MTX

--- Ron Nottingham <ron@v6sho.com> wrote:
> 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,
>
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