[Shotimes] New Member

[Zach Leahy]

Welcome to the list, and to SHO ownership.  These are fun cars, if they were
boring, we wouldn't own them.  By now you have determined (I would guess)
there is a SHO forum and a mailing list.  You evidently found the mailing
list.  The forum is cool too, but the age is gerally a lot younger there and
some of the mods are a bit "hokey" (i.e. cutting springs etc.).  I think
this list tries to be a bit more complete and exacting in our work.  If
that's you, you have a new home.... even if it's not, welcome to the house
anyway.  A lot of us are pretty crazy about our cars, some have devoted SHO
racecars, and others just drive them daily.  We are all sorts of weird
folks.  :)

Z




On 12/21/05, Techpriest <techpriest@ourlair.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
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