Filed under: Time Warp, Convertibles, Auction Action, Etc., Ford
eBay Find of the Day: Topless Taurus makes us Neff swoon
Having healthy fascination with the SHO is one thing; that car was kick-ass, so the lust is understandable. This, on the otherhand, is just... wrong. Not even the novelty of a Taurus convertible can redeem this car from being anything more than a wrong-headed bucket of, um, fertilizer. Sawz-All roof treatment aside, there's still the paintwork to contend with. There's obviously a lot of time put into the design, but the color choice and odd striping work look more like someone did donuts in a bunch of spilled pigment than any kind of concerted effort to make the car look good. Then again, if you're chopping the roof off a first-gen Taurus (already made of wet spaghetti), affixing a big, stupid wing to the back and frenching the antennas (let's repeat that, dual frenched antennas. WTF? It's an '88 Taurus, not a '58 Skyliner), you're not much concerned with the way the end result actually looks. We're tempted to buy it just to burn it to the ground, it's only $3500, though apparently an appraiser saw $15,000 worth of value here. We beg to differ, though it'd be a sweet ride for next year's LeMons effort, which would also ultimately assure its destruction.
Thanks for the tip, Sean!
[Source: eBay]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Will 6:36PM (10/09/2007)
Those are clearly sperm swimming over the wheelarch. Heinous.
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RobZ4 7:24PM (10/09/2007)
Burn it and bury the remains deep in the frozen Antarctic.
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Vectortrance 7:33PM (10/09/2007)
I'm sure Neff has better taste then that!! I know the guy likes his Taurus's... but C'MON!
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Alex 7:34PM (10/09/2007)
just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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Johnny082 7:58PM (10/09/2007)
disgusting
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PauloBecker 8:08PM (10/09/2007)
If it weren't for the disgusting paint job, ridiculously over sized spoiler and ugly wheels, I just might not feel like crying just by looking at it.
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CaptainSpaulding 8:15PM (10/09/2007)
If ugly and hideous got together one night, this would be their spawn.
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Christopher H. Kim 8:31PM (10/09/2007)
Domestic Rice at its finest!
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Peter 9:42PM (10/09/2007)
Bit of a minger that, yeah?
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zakudomgoog 9:43PM (10/09/2007)
i am willing to bet the owner of this fine automobile has a flat-top haircut "with" the mullet and a mustache.
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SPG 10:13PM (10/09/2007)
One cruise night and people would remember you forever if you were in this....... car?
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Bryan 11:17PM (10/09/2007)
I always thought a 95 SHO convertible would look awesome, however, I had a solid color in mind, not multi! Yuck!
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Dan 12:20AM (10/10/2007)
cars & concepts actually built a one-off Sable convertible in '89 to showcase some new top mechanism designs. it's apparently still in existence, and sold on ebay a while back -- someone captured info on it here:
http://www.taurusclub.com/encyclopedia/Concepts/88convert.html
a bit of a different look, to say the least :)
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3cubed minus 3squared plus1 12:24AM (10/10/2007)
I don't know whats sadder.
That some one actually made this,or that the bid is over 3000$
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Sean Morris 12:47AM (10/10/2007)
That looks like TN. Nice. Not at all.
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j_diesel 7:00AM (10/10/2007)
i can't believe i actually looked. it's more hilarious than i imagined.
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Trae 7:21AM (10/10/2007)
So this is pretty much an embarrassment to the whole state of TN. I promise that we're not all like that. I can also promise that no man with a mullet from Tennessee would have a car like this. This is clearly the son of the guy with the mullet.
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94 taurus owner 5:26PM (10/10/2007)
Why????????
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2004m3driver 1:08AM (10/16/2007)
I'd drive it around just so I can see if I am man enough to pull that off.
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