[Shotimes] New Member

[Donald Mallinson]

"Techpriest",

Welcome,  This is the kind of group where it is OK to give us your 
name.  With very few exceptions everyone here, is here to celebrate the SHO.

It is funny, but when I bought my '89 (with 45,000 miles on it) in 1991, 
I contacted as many SHO owners in my area as I could and started a 
little local chapter of the national club, and that led to our little 
group putting on the first SHO Convention in 1992. 

What I found out then, that is just as true today, is that the SHO seems 
to be more than the sum of its parts.  It has a great engine, and 
although the Taurus basically is a bread and butter car for Ford (soon 
to be "has been" a bread and butter car) the car itself was extremely 
well designed and way ahead of its time with Independent rear suspension 
and a level of safety and crashworthyness that still today is recognized 
by emergency workers and some of our best friends that have lived 
through some pretty awful crashes where the SHO is no more, but the 
person continues.  They almost always go back and buy another SHO.

Your enthusiasm for a now 17 year old car (most were made in 1988) is 
JUST what keeps us around.  I have three, my son has one, and there have 
now been 14 international conventions held to celebrate a FWD Four-door 
sedan.  One that continues to be much more contemporary than anyone 
would imagine after all these years.

Welcome and visit often, contribute often and enjoy your car.  Nice find! 

Don Mallinson, President
SHO Club
http://www.shoclub.com



Techpriest 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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