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Good News, Bad Noose

Thanks to Sheriff Buford T. Justice:


TimWright
Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2000 8:26 PM
To: 1 V8SHO list
Subject: Good news - bad noose


Dear SHO Folk,

First the good news, After 10 days in Huntington Beach, and meeting Vadim and his family. I now have the only blown 3 Gen SHO on earth, at least that I know about. It took all the magic I had left on my gold card, and while I was at it I did the Baer Racing brakes front and rear and lowered the car almost 1.5".

The car pulls like beast, the blower makes 9 psi max and needs the intercooler and 92 octane full time now.

This should level the playing field with the GTP guys. The car now makes 332 hp at the wheel at 6800 rpm. I don't know what it will do at the track because traction is a major problem.

Driving home was a hoot, I can now run 6500-6800 rpm in OD. All was going well until I got to Montoya NM, I pissed off a trucker and he had a CB. The next exit was blocked off with squad cars. And the next one looked like a police convention.

So now I am in Tucumcari and they are taking my car apart and still dreaming up charges. They will not believe I was just doing this for fun and my wrists still hurt from the cuffs.

Tomorrow I get arraigned, and I hope I can arrange bail. They are talking about seizing the car. Send any contributions for my defense fund to Don Mallinson.

Pax

Timothy Wright
`97 SHO


Eheh, this is a joke right? Oh wait you live in the states don't you?
Damn, I hope you are kidding.

Shawn


Please send pics...........don't make us beg!


Mark


From Jail?

of the car or the jail?

 Tim


Tim,

Knowing of your great sense of humor is this for real or an early April Fools joke?

I would believe you about the cops, due to past circumstances, but the blower???

Gotta know.

Scott 


April Fools Day is Saturday Tim. Tell us you're joking on the constable problem, but serious on the blower!

I can't imagine a trucker having enough substance to get you in the pokey. Remember the term "hearsay"! Can he prove it?

After all, you told them who you were right? Buford T. Justice!! They had to let you go.

Scott 


I live right next door to Huntington Beach (all right, I admit it, I live in the dumpster behind the SHO Shop), and I didn't see anyone parading around pretending to be Jackie Gleason, spouting off whimsical southern-fried phrases between massive episodes of flatulence, so I think I can safely say that you have not been anywhere near HB recently. Isn't that true, Mr. Wright?

Don't try to lie to us because we'll see your lips moving!

(George)


I know the American jail system is permissive, but Web access while in a 6'x9'? I feel my leg being pulled.

Michael 
96 Toreador Red/Saddle


You would be surprised what our inmates can get a hold of now a days.................

Mark.

(Not speaking from experience like Buford though........)


The stories kinda confusing. Did u get arrested for speeding, or did u run from the cops? And if u were speeding how fast were u going that u were cuffed?


Confused,
kevin


 

I recently met one of the members of this 3rd Generation SHO list and am looking for more information on modifying my 96 Taurus SHO. I've always thought there was room for improving the performance of these cars but see so few here in Southern California that I didn't know where to go for assistance.

Tim, if you're reading this post, I thank you once again for your advice (met you @ Denny's in Costa Mesa, last week) and look forward to future enhancements on my ride. While I may not be in a position to modify as heavily as you, I was extremely impressed by the ultra clean blower setup you have installed!

Hope you had a good trip home!

Bill H.


Is that you Paul?

Ken
Some Mods, but no S/C


Hi folks,

Don't worry, Tim is not in jail...he's at home. There is not a blown 3rd gen and you can't get Baer brakes for the rear of our cars. Let's look at the evidence shall we.

First off Tim said...

"First the good news, After 10 days in Huntington Beach, and meeting Vadim and his family. I now have the only blown 3 Gen SHO on earth, at least that I now about. It took all the magic I had left on my gold card, and while I was at it I did the Baer Racing brakes front and rear and lowered the car almost 1.5"."

Minor problem = there is not a Baer Brake Kit for our cars.

Tim went on to say...

"Driving home was a hoot, I can now run 6500-6800 rpm in OD."

Minor problem 2 = can you say sped limiter, no mention of the LPM

Then Tim went on to say...

"So now I am in Tucumcari"

Minor Problem 3 = While Montoya and Tucumcari are on Interstate 40 with one exit between them, Tim's message was sent from a dial up uunet connection (IP address ) in IL (41.883N 87.6225W Lat and Long) Got this from the properties of the message. So unless he used his one phone call to dial up to his isp and send the message he's yanking your chain.

Tim's message says it was sent at 4/1/2000 at 10:26PM...

Minor Problem 4 = It was actually sent at Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:23:56 -0800 according to the properties. The -8:00 would be GMT minus eight hours and that would be central IL.

Then Mark replied...

"Please send pics...........don't make us beg!"

Minor Problem 5 = Tim responded "From Jail? of the car or the jail?" from the same IP address at Wed 3/29/2000 10:52 PM

Then there was this message from a new member...

"I recently met one of the members of this 3rd Generation SHO list and am looking for more information on modifying my 96 Taurus SHO. I've always thought there was room for improving the performance of these cars but see so few here in Southern California that I didn't know where to go for assistance.

Tim, if you're reading this post, I thank you once again for your advice (met you @ Denny's in Costa Mesa, last week) and look forward to future enhancements on my ride. While I may not be in a position to modify as heavily as you, I was extremely impressed by the ultra clean blower setup you have installed!

Hope you had a good trip home!

Bill H."

Minor Problem 6 = This almost threw me because according to the properties of the message it came from an IP () that is registered to socal.rr.com (33.783N 117.925W which is close to Hunnington Beach). They service a lot of areas including So-Cal with broadband cable modems. It looked legit until I looked at all of the members that are registered with the list who have an rr.com email address. There were two, June and George . If you recall George replied to the original message from Tim. Looking at the properties George's response was actually the first to be sent. Also George's IP was () which is the same originating IP address as the "New Member." Since bb cable modems have static IP addresses I guess we know who the new member is.


To recap:
Tim sent both messages from home in IL
There are no Baer brakes for the back of our cars
Tim conspired with George (the first to reply...and happens to live in
So-Cal) to email a supporting statement
Tim's dates were wrong

I feel better now. Attached you will find a text document with the properties from the three emails in question. Take a look.

Have a great day and don't let anyone fool you,

Mike
"A lie travels around the world while truth is still putting on her boots!"

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Michael T. Ivy
Infrastrucure Support Administrator Novell
Management Information
Purdue University


Well, 6800 rpm in over drive would be around 175 mph. Tim is known to speed a lot. I believe he got a ticket for 120 awhile back.

Matthew


BTW, your email about your supercharging and subsequent legal problems to the v8sho list was forwarded to shotimes list. What the heck WERE you doing (speedwise) to get arrested on the spot?!? Hope everything turned out OK, for both you and the car. Going to make it to the indiana convention? Would love to see a supercharged gen3, and of course, it'd be nice to finally meet you in person as well (we haven't met, have we? Don't recall you being at the past two conventions I was at).

----
- David


(to Bll H.)

If you are in Southern California isn't that in the area of the SHO SHOP. That would be the best place to start for your SHO mods. Check out their website. I believe its http://www.shoshop.com

Howie


 

Well damn,
All I can say is that really sucks. I've never liked truckers anyway.

Rick


They don't like it much when you cruise that fast. Especially if they think you have been ignoring them for 20 minutes. I honestly did not see anyone trying to stop me. I got caught because I was low on fuel and had to make a pit stop. That gas station will never forget...

Jason 
Jailed in Ashtabula Ohio
Lucky I am Canadian




I'm sorry, but this just has to be said.

Much over 100 MPH on almost ANY road in America save the desert interstates in the west is WAY too fast.

I don't care if your car can handle it; I don't care if YOU can handle it. The roads can't handle that speed, generally speaking, and the other drivers will be TOTALLY unprepared for you.

Too many really bad drivers out there...you'll be on them like a hawk on a mouse.

Slow down.

If you don't care whether you live or die, it's OK by me.

Really.

But at the speeds you must have been going, you can snuff out several innocent human lives in an instant.

S.

P.S. Is this a hoax? Since when are there email privileges in jails?

If so, it sucks.

P.P.S. You didn't know they were trying to stop you for TWENTY MINUTES?

Saw no lights ? Heard no sirens?

You' ve gotta be dead from the neck up.

Really, man...check yourself out.


Truckers are people too. Here on this board, everyone has a slightly different take on things. Obviously, so did that trucker.


I almost got my CDL in '93, but went to back college instead. When I'm driving in my SHO, I respect that the truckers drive for a living, while I drive to/from my livelyhood. They put more miles on their vehicles in one year than some of the SHO's on this have seen in their lifetime.

I'm sorry to hear about Tim. I know he would not have run that fast where there was traffic, but we don't have all the details.

BTW, AutoZone had most of the hoses for my SHO. There were three they did not have in stock included the lower radiator hose.

The last time I had my hoses done was in Jan '97 by Ford. They missed 4 hoses.

Dave 


Could be me, but if you're not attentive enough to know that they're trying to stop you for 20 minutes then you have no business going that fast since you obviously cannot pay attention to your surroundings - let alone anticipate the actions of others....



Well, I guess it's time to stand down. I was getting ready to march on Albuquerque and demand they "Free Tim" while vilifying the INS for their heavy-handed tactics. Boy, how exciting would a nice blower set up be?

Michael
96 Toreador Red


Mike,

Have done lot's of Jail Work (Rikers Island in NYC). They sued the city and know have color TV with Cable, great Law Library access, and yes, the big WWW.

TB


 

You mean you were not serious?

.................................



Darn, I wanted to see pictures.........


The ever gullible............. me



LOL it was funny, and for a minute I bought it until I read the email twice.....

!!

Richard


If he was sending an April-fools joke, he should have set his system up properly... :-)


Dave .


 

Don't worry. Once it was detected as a joke, we all had fun with it, although a big fight over truckers ensued.

BTW, how does it run with the blower? Are you able to exceed the speed limiter or have you gotten an LPM that bypasses it?

Dave .

 


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