Buy Dennis Gage's Taurus SHO And Get Free Mustache Wax

"DailyTurismo" (thedailyturismo) 01/23/2015 at 12:05 • Filed to: Daily Turismo, Blog

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The first generation Ford Taurus SHO was engineered by the nutters on Ford's Special Vehicle Team starting in 1989. Today it is an appreciating classic, and this particular example is owned by mustache enthusiast and My Classic Car host Dennis Gage.

Find Mr Gage's 1990 Ford Taurus SHO !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! currently bidding for $6,300 with 2 days to go.

The recipe for the first generation Taurus SHO (pronounced "show") involved sticking a Mercury Sable hood on top of a Yamaha built V6 that displaces 3.0 liters and makes 220 horsepower and 200 ft-lbs of torque. The iron block V-6 used an oversquare (bore is larger than stroke) setup and 24-valve DOHC alloy head to achieve a 7000 rpm redline.

Most of the first gen Taurii SHO you find for sale have been ridden hard and put away wet — not this one. This one has been pampered and spit shined with only the finest of mustache waxes. It will be interesting to see where the auction ends, but whoever buys this car gets an instant great story.

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Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > DailyTurismo 01/23/2015 at 12:12

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I like the Opel GT better.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > DailyTurismo 01/23/2015 at 12:13

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I WANT THAT! It looks awesome, like an oversized Ford Sierra Xr4i almost.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 01/23/2015 at 12:18

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Pish posh.. The GT is so average (here in Norway that is) :P

Takuro Spirit > DailyTurismo 01/23/2015 at 12:26

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I miss coin holders like these.

Rock Bottom > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 12:31

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I think the first gen SHO looks like an overfed early Tempo.

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Rock Bottom 01/23/2015 at 12:40

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Ford Tempo

Ford Sierra

Me being a european and all, it reminds me of a Sierra, we never got the Tempo here. But I see your point mate :)

Rock Bottom > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 12:48

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Be glad you didn't get it. The Tempo was a sub-par machine when it was new... and it hasn't aged well!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Rock Bottom 01/23/2015 at 12:52

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Hehe, well.. we tend to love things that were utter shite here thoug :P

Rock Bottom > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 13:06

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I can't tell what that is... looks just a little like a Ford Fairmont Futura... which were AWESOME!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Rock Bottom 01/23/2015 at 13:09

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Ford Granada

This guy decided to put something else under the bonnet though..

DailyTurismo > Takuro Spirit 01/23/2015 at 13:32

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I miss having money to put in my coin holders...(three kids will do that!).

Rock Bottom > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 13:37

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We had a Ford Grenada here, too!

Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh > Rock Bottom 01/23/2015 at 13:44

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I know, and yours looked AWSOME.

Rock Bottom > Laird Andrew Neby Bradleigh 01/23/2015 at 14:00

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Ford hosed it by trying to compare it to Mercedes instead of trying to beat up on Chrysler, AMC, and GM like they were supposed to. They're pretty hard to come by now, since they ended up in the hands of non-car-guys who just trashed them in the 80s and threw them away.

I might be mistaken here, but I think these were the cars that needed a hole cut in the fire wall to replace the blower motor. Not Ford's best years!

Takuro Spirit > DailyTurismo 01/23/2015 at 14:14

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Thankfully one of mine still thinks pennies are worth saving. The other has moved on to paper money, not too interested in coins anymore.

DailyTurismo > Takuro Spirit 01/23/2015 at 14:44

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Just wait till they transfer to the plastic kind of money!

ranwhenparked > Rock Bottom 01/23/2015 at 15:39

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And the Tempo was an American translation of the Sierra's Jello mold design cues. "One Ford" might have been decades in the future, but Ford did have a pretty unified global design language in the '80s.

ranwhenparked > DailyTurismo 01/23/2015 at 15:40

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So, does this qualify as a mustache ride?