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Got home last night with my "new to me" 89 Taurus SHO.  Drove 3 hours to get
it so I got to get the know the car a little on the 3 hour ride back.

WOW!  That thing moves!  It is without a doubt the fastest car I have ever
owned, and I have owned turbo 4s and V8s.  I was pulling on the highway and
trying to get around a truck, looked down and saw I was doing 80.  I
thought, "80?  I'm only in third!"  It has 120k miles on it but runs and
handles great.  The interior shows signs of it's age, cracked dash, ripped
front seats, but other then auto headlights (they blink with a strobe effect
thats pretty cool) and eng temp gauge everything inside works.  It was well
taken care of but has not had the second 60k tune up yet so I need to do
that.  I am sure this car has lost some of it's power and handling with age,
so I can't imagine what it was like new.

The previous owner, an older gentleman, was showing me the car and said,
"Let me show you something."  He opens the glove box and pulls out the
December 1988 issue of Car and Driver, the one with the SHO on the cover!
He told me as soon as he read the article he knew he had to have one.  He
could not afford a new one but kept looking and found this one 2 years later
with 40k miles on it.  He bought it and has had it for the full 14 years.
Doing that math, he put less then 6000 miles a year on it.  He let me have
the magazine along with the car for $1500.  I just kept thinking that there
must have been kids (anyone under 25 to me is a kid) drive past the For Sale
sign on their way to buy a $1500 Honda Civic with manual windows and 115hp
engines not knowing what they were passing up.