The legend is surviving (?)

[GEN 3 SHO FAN]

You already know that, it's just an intro : Ours SHOs are very rares cars even Mustang guys don't know them. But at some rare occasions someone, somewhere surprise me.

Going to the drive thru at Macdonald after some courses, when the time to pay come the guy ask discretly "I think I saw the letters "SHO" on your car, it's that a real one ?" (I must precise that I put a bra made for SHO with the letters on it.) From all the possibilities from this question could come, it's one of the most improbable and it took me a second to made an answer : Yes, but are old are you ? (Here in Canada, we have an important lack of people to work and now, we litteraly have kids serving us in restaurant, not sure is the case in US.) He asked 17... Ok then, my SHO is just 10 years older than you (!?), how the **** do you know this particular rare car ? He simply asked that he like cars...

History and legend seems to survive in generations that don't known them when they are more popular on the road. Interesting to know...

 

[Qshiplvr]

Funny, you encountered a "kid" who knew what a SHO was. There is a Ford-only family whose kids are all Mustang hot rodders that live near where I do. So shortly after I get the SHO up and running I go driving by and the young one with the Bullitt version w/ a built 351 dropped in flags me down and was all over the SHO, opening the hood (while I'm still idling in the street) and asking me if I want to sell it. Like your situation, this kid is probably 10 yrs younger than the car itself, but just the sound of the SHO at idle (well, I DO give them a few downshifts as I drive by their driveway, sometimes) with the Flowmasters wins them over quick!

 

[GEN 3 SHO FAN]

Good story.

That remember me when I bought the car back in 2015. I gone to the nearest Ford dealership to have the master door code (they have to plug a portable computer to the car to do this and while the guy was trying to obtain it, the car attracted more and more employees of the store until almost all mechanics were around the car... I have to open the hood for their curiosity too. Lol.

(I learned after that they weren't able to read the code. Different computer language, mine was too old. I gone to their store parts after that just to learn that they didn't keep parts older than 10 years... Never returned there.)

 

[Zpak]

Good story.

That remember me when I bought the car back in 2015. I gone to the nearest Ford dealership to have the master door code (they have to plug a portable computer to the car to do this and while the guy was trying to obtain it, the car attracted more and more employees of the store until almost all mechanics were around the car... I have to open the hood for their curiosity too. Lol.

(I learned after that they weren't able to read the code. Different computer language, mine was too old. I gone to their store parts after that just to learn that they didn't keep parts older than 10 years... Never returned there.)

Did you ever figure out your master code? Every 90’s Ford I’ve had it was on a sticker on one of the trunk hinges.

 

[Irish Pride]

Did you ever figure out your master code? Every 90’s Ford I’ve had it was on a sticker on one of the trunk hinges.

On a Gen3 the module is mounted directly above the accelerator pedal and the code is on the right hand side upper corner. Very difficult to see. I had to use a flashlight and my camera to take a clear Pic of the code on the 97 that I just bought last Saturday. Look for the module with the antenna plugged into it.

-Chad

 

[GEN 3 SHO FAN]

Same thing for me. But anyone at Ford dealership didn't know about the hidden sticker...

It's someone here that helped me with that.

 

[Ian Macoomb]

A Rose Mist in Canada? There couldn't have been many. I was a passenger in one that met it's demise in a ditch. I wonder if it's the same one? Insurance Co wrote it off but it disappeared before the owner could buy it.

 

[GEN 3 SHO FAN]

(Ian Macoomb !? , I rode many of your useful posts.)

Yep, the only one according to the Ford's production list found by Josh some years ago. I bought it in 2015 at Montréal but I know the owner was living in Valleyfield (near Ontario...). Its a true canadian with km/h cluster, bloc heater and with a district sale code B2 (Eastern Canada : Québec / New Brunswick ?, there is at my sense another code for Ontario which coulb be B8 : Great Lakes)

The guy was a big fan of Mustangs olds and news and have some... Josh was very kind and make an AutoCheck for me in 2015.
1998 : Sold new in Montréal
Between 1998 and 2006, I know that a cook from a medium/big restaurant had it in Montréal. (Info coming from someone eating there at that time.)
2006 : sold to a family in Varennes (near Mtl)
2011 : son of the family became owner of the car (infos confirmed by another owner in this area)
2014 : the friend of the son became owner (the mustang guy)
2015 : MY PRECIOUS

(By the way, it's somewhat impressive on how people keep in mind a purple car over time...)

I know the story of the other purple canadian SHO but it was badly damaged according from what I rode... IIRC he had painted brake calipers (red), mine not and he was bone stock when I bought it. Is the owner you spoke was from Québec province (tought it was from Ontario too) ? All my data sources refer to Québec province ownership.