[Shotimes] Pimp My Ride

[Dave Kegel]

Both the Taurus and Sable front ends (headlights, parking lights and grills)
changed starting with the 89 MY.  The Sable changes were much more
noticeable (the center light bar change was pretty dramatic).  Both were
changed to be more aerodynamic.  It's hard to explain the Taurus changes.
You'd have to see them together to tell the differences.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 3:03 PM
To: 'shotimes'
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Pimp My Ride


???? Explain the difference between an '86-'88 SLO grill and the '89
SHO/SLO?? Unless I missed something, nothing changed on the Gen 1.

AFAIK the only color that SHOs had that was not a regular SLO color was the
green on the late-'91 Plus cars....and I'm not even sure about that. Black
was always common to SLOs.

The car is 16 years old....and has had ???? owners. Nothing would surprise
my on an '89 SLO.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Scot Hewitt
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:37 AM
To: shotimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Pimp My Ride

Did anyone catch the inconsistancies?  Only a SHO nerd would catch them:

1) A black 89 taurus? - I thought only 89 SHOs were black.  When she flips
the hood up, you can see the repaint.

2) The car was in a minor front end collision, so the grill was replaced
with an 86-88 Taurus grill.

3) When Xibit (or whatever his name is) talks about the Taurus, he say it
was ahead of it's time when it was introduced in 1989.  He meant to say
1986.

Anything else?

My son (6) and I like that show, but they only spend about 2 minutes on the
tear down & rebuild.  I also wonder how long the cars last on the road
afterwords.  At least my son can use "pimp" in a sentence now!

Scot H

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jason Hartberger <jhartberger@mail.com>
Date:  Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:53:23 -0400

>I saw the episode with the taurus. It was a black 89 with its front
>bumper held on literally by some safety wire... driven by a very, very, 
>very attractive young woman ;) (hoping wife doesn't see that) that 
>wanted to be a stuntwoman... so they fixed it all up with factory 
>original parts - no body kits - They even replaced the Ford logo in the 
>front - but they did this paint job that involved metallic blue (kinda 
>like '94-95 blue only prettier and more metallic) that 'peeled off' at 
>the front to expose (painted) metal sheets and rivets... it actually 
>looked really neat. They put lambo doors on the front and they did the 
>rear doors so that they opened perfecly parallel to the car... the whole 
>door just extended out sideways, and they put some free-floating 7" LCDs 
>or something like that in the space... and in the trunk they put this 
>frame that flipped out and plooped (yes, plooped) out this 
>self-inflating jump bag... I'm not sure which was cooler, the car or the 
>chick jumping up and down :P
>
>Jason (hormones a'ragin) Hartberger
>
>Jon Heese wrote:
>
>> Ummm... did anyone catch this episode?  I TiVo'd the Pimp My Ride 
>> that
>> aired on Sunday at 8:30pm, but I'm watching it and it's some dweeb in 
>> a '68 Chevelle (instead of some dweeb in an '89 Taurus)...
>>
>> Did I get the wrong episode, or did they switch it up on us?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jon Heese
>>
>> James F. Ryan III wrote:
>>
>>> The moron hacks at West Coast Customs are pimping an '89 Taurus (not
>>> an SHO)
>>> on tonight's episode.  Make sure and tune in.
>>>
>>> I'm intersted to see what kind of really cool 22" wheels, totally
>>> awesome
>>> body kit, how many LCD monitors, and how many amps and giant woofers 
>>> they
>>> fit put in this
>>>
'89.........NOOOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
>>>
>>>
>>> However, I am interested to see if they'll use some SHO body parts,
>>> or if
>>> they'll just use their usual excuse, "They don't make a body kit for 
>>> this
>>> car, soooooo we had to modify the front and rear bumpers from a Honda 
>>> Accord
>>> kit."
>>
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>
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>USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71
>AIMD/IM-3 CASS
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