quote:Originally posted by PanteraDoug:
Thanks for the reply BW. It's important to seperate fact from salesmanship.
Give me a dozen testimonials here from people who would know the difference.
I would point out that a short shifter is not necessarily something that is a positive.
Son #1 has one in one of his SVT Contours. The blown one. It is a cable operated shifter.
He can drive it. I can't feel the differences between the gears.
The Taurus SHO went through this as well. The original cars were all cable shifted. The upgrade is to a rod/shaft shifter. Big difference and improvement.
Sorry, but for the cost and the labor to go into this, this is a hard sell for me.
Too many changes in this group just for the sake of being different.
Show me I'm wrong? Got a demonstrator I can drive?
You have that right about the original SHO cable shifter models. I have a 1990 SHO and the later rod shifter models are much better. I saw one of the Pantera cable shift set ups at the rally in San Diego this year. It is an interesting design and the fabrication quality is top notch. I would still like to drive a car that had one installed before I purchase one myself.