[Shotimes] 92 "cop-finder red"

Jim & Debbie Leyden jndleyden@comcast.net
Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:09:41 -0400


That must be the PC term...

Debbie calls hers "F**K Me Red"
One of her friends calls it her "Red MF'n SHO car"
I don't get it.

Jim



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On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:45 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] 92 "cop-finder red"

The correct technical term is "arrest me red".
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Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Mon, April 4, 2005 9:20 am, Zach Leahy said:
> Well all,
>
> some of you have heard i have been looking at adding a SHO to the
> driveway here.  My trusty ol green MTX is still going at 213,000, but
> reliability is starting to suffer again.  I don't mind fixing it or
> investing money that is far beyond what the total value of the car is.
>  Heck sooner or later I will have replaced everything.
>
> What i found though, as you can guess from the subject, is a second
> SHO.  It's a 92 Ultra-freaking-red, or as I like to call it
> "Cop-finder-red".  Has 121,000 on the clock and the engine runs so
> nice and smooth that I forget it's running.  It's got almost all the
> goodies except has a manual passenger seat, and has split black
> interior.  Trans shift way better than the Green car, and the clutch
> is about 6 months old.  The lady who owned it worked for the Porter
> County career Center with my brother, and they had done some of the
> repairs on it.  It got new struts about 30k ago, so they feel pretty
> good.  Great car, nd it's sooooo much quieter than my 93 is (now that
> it's been modified).  Course it is also dramatically slower.
>
> The bad points are as follows.   A couple door dings, some scratches,
> and one rust spot on the passenger quarter panel.  It looks like it
> got a front corner hit as it has 1 newer headlight and the front of
> the car was repainted.  there is on structural damage from accidents.
> Moonroof is noisy, but aren't they all.  Anyone find some bulk
> weatherstripping that can be used to replace the noisy seal?  EATC has
> punched in buttons, worse than the 93.  JBL radio works, but upon
> testing of the CD player, it digested a CD and won't regurgitate it.
> No big deal as I will probably either swap my MP3 player from the
> green car over, or I will get another one.  Black B and C piller paint
> has some major flaking, but that can be redone quite easily.  It also
> needs new tires as there is a wobble under acceleration I have been
> told is due to bad tires, not any worn out suspension parts.  I have
> yet to put it on the lift to confirm this.  The tires are older
> firehawks, and I have never been a fan   I am going to rotate them, or
> maybe temporarily swap on a different set of wheels/tires and see if
> everything goes away.  I have way too mayny sets of wheels now.  I
> have 3 extra sets, and 2 on the cars.....  Needs an alignment.  it had
> one with the struts, but that was 4 years ago (the car has seen less
> use in the last few years).  The steering wheel is not centered, and
> that bugs me.
>
> Z
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