TechJunkie
New Member
Hi everyone!
New SHO owner here from CT (Fairfield county area for those interested). I've been a lurker on the SHO forums for a very long time (since I was 16 or so and the SHO bug bit me), and since I finally got an SHO 4 years later I figured I should make an account to be social and what not. The car itself is a black 89 with about 80k on the clock, runs like a top. I bought it for $725, the owner had inherited it from a dead relative who was a SHO nut and it had sat for a few years since then (he has a 96 for sale too if anyone local is interested), it started like a champ on the first crank after I jumped it.
The good:
The interior is nice, the driver's seat has a torn bolster and the drivers door panel needs help but everything else is prefect
The engine runs like it's brand new
The clutch was recently replaced
The suspension feels too good to be original but I could be wrong
It's had it's 60k and then some, new CPS and CSPS
The guy threw in a brand new battery he had for a truck he sold
The car came with every service manual Ford ever printed for it and the 89 dealer brochure
The bad:
The radiator has a bad end tank, so that needs to be replaced asap
The A/C has no charge
The exhaust is is holier than Swiss cheese
One of the shift cable ends broke 2 days ago
The passenger side quarter panel has rust below the gas filler, the underbody looks rust free though.
All in all, I think I got a decent deal on it, and for the 3 days I got to drive it before the shift cable broke it was an absolute blast. Hopefully I can find a rod-shift conversion decently cheap and quickly so I can have more fun with it. Anyone on the forums local? I'd love to see other SHOs, I'm sure the more I drive it the more boring stock will be. Once I fix the cable enough to drive it home I'll snap some photos of it and it's Crown Vic stablemate.
New SHO owner here from CT (Fairfield county area for those interested). I've been a lurker on the SHO forums for a very long time (since I was 16 or so and the SHO bug bit me), and since I finally got an SHO 4 years later I figured I should make an account to be social and what not. The car itself is a black 89 with about 80k on the clock, runs like a top. I bought it for $725, the owner had inherited it from a dead relative who was a SHO nut and it had sat for a few years since then (he has a 96 for sale too if anyone local is interested), it started like a champ on the first crank after I jumped it.
The good:
The interior is nice, the driver's seat has a torn bolster and the drivers door panel needs help but everything else is prefect
The engine runs like it's brand new
The clutch was recently replaced
The suspension feels too good to be original but I could be wrong
It's had it's 60k and then some, new CPS and CSPS
The guy threw in a brand new battery he had for a truck he sold
The car came with every service manual Ford ever printed for it and the 89 dealer brochure
The bad:
The radiator has a bad end tank, so that needs to be replaced asap
The A/C has no charge
The exhaust is is holier than Swiss cheese
One of the shift cable ends broke 2 days ago
The passenger side quarter panel has rust below the gas filler, the underbody looks rust free though.
All in all, I think I got a decent deal on it, and for the 3 days I got to drive it before the shift cable broke it was an absolute blast. Hopefully I can find a rod-shift conversion decently cheap and quickly so I can have more fun with it. Anyone on the forums local? I'd love to see other SHOs, I'm sure the more I drive it the more boring stock will be. Once I fix the cable enough to drive it home I'll snap some photos of it and it's Crown Vic stablemate.
