[Shotimes] 1994 bondurant - rousch sho on Ebay

[Ron Porter]

When I lived in Louisville in the mid-late '90s, I had seen a light metallic
blue/silver Sable with a SHO exhaust and slicers a couple of times in a
week. The car looked a bit "different", and I had reason to believe that it
was one of the all AL cars. Never did get to see it parked so I could ask
about it. Might be the one that you describe, unless they had a few in that
color combo.

Ron Porter

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Subject: Re: [Shotimes] 1994 bondurant - rousch sho on Ebay

The aluminum Sables with SHO motors were built by Ford as part of an 
experimental AIV (aluminum intensive vehicle) program.  Bill Steuf was the 
Chief Engineer responsible.  I worked for ALCOA at the time.  We supplied 
the castings and some sheet but the bulk of the sheet came from ALCAN.  The 
entire body structure of the vehicle was aluminum.  The vehicles were not 
sold but leased to the suppliers in the program and returned to Ford at the 
conclusion of the lease period.  We had one in our office.  It was a strange

blue/silver color.

Keith


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Subject: Re: [Shotimes] 1994 bondurant - rousch sho on Ebay


> The aluminum Sables were a special experiment by ALCOA. Ford did not 
> commission them.  Those bodies were worth megabucks!
>
> Kerby
>
> -- "van Oss" <vanOss@centurytel.net> wrote:
> Uh, I thought that what was noteworthy about experimental Sables was that 
> at
> least some of them were aluminum (or part aluminum) body shells.  When one
> of them visited UW-Madison a few years ago*, my magnet didn't stick to it.
> Can anyone confirm any of this?  Were the Bondurant Sables steel, and the
> Aluminum Sables a totally separate project?
> VO
>
> *By the way it was painted like a cow, George:
> http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~vehicle/alumcow.htm    It was a Gen2, so I
> guess you don't care about that.   : )
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> ...In fact the Sable SHOs required some real string pulling to get all the
> parts to build them. Motors were req for Taurus platforms. The cars were
> built by Rousch (I saw the 92s I think, in progress there in Livonia) all 
> of
> them were white to start with as I recall. The Sable required they take a
> car off the line and plug in the cradle of the Taurus...
> Todd
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