Years ago, Brian Lohnes gave me a title in the Forums: “the Patron Saint of Automotive Lost Causes”. You can’t blame him…ask anyone here if you don’t know about my thing for off-year Mopars, random AMCs, or some of the more questionable choices from the Malaise era. Ask about my willingness to find the good parts of just about any car made that isn’t the Ford Granada or either one of it’s corporate twins. Ask the readers, ask the forum members. Hell, just look up my work from the moment I started writing here and you will see without a doubt that a screw or two is loose upstairs in my head when it comes to four-wheeled fascinations. I have many reasons, for which I will not dive into, for looking at the most random vehicles, but one factor that is easily explainable is the freak factor. It’s the whole reason the “Dare To Be Different” movement has such a following…you see things that you don’t normally see. A small-tire Mustang that is running eights? Nothing against anyone doing it, that’s a solid recipe, but do you know just how many of them are out there? TONS! Do you know how many Ford Taurus racing machines are out there that aren’t NASCAR body shells? Precious few, I can promise you, and if there is another out there that can match wits with Zach Wright’s 1995 Taurus SHO known as the “Blue Turd”, then we want to see them, because right now it’s so close to the nine-second zone, it’s scary.
Unfortunately, you will witness the death of the engine in this 1320Video clip. At 27 PSI of boost and 8,100 RPM combined took out the head gaskets, which put water into a cylinder, which bent the hell out of one of the rods. Work is going on to try to patch up the 3.3L-based V6, and we hope that everything else survived the ordeal. We want to see a nine-second Taurus, just because nobody else would’ve dreamt that kind of thing up!
BMT… we definitely need to go drinking sometime…..