Volume 1 Number 2
Spring 2001
By Don Mallinson, President

Hey, how neat is it that SHO Club has "back issues" of the magazine now!

If you missed out on the first issue (Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 2001) then you can order it while supplies last for just $9.50.  Why so much?  Well, if I priced it less than 1/4 of a subscription/membership, then people would just buy individual copies.  Actually, each magazine costs us several dollars, and when you buy just one copy, I have to send them out by first class mail, which costs $1.50 (more with new rates coming soon) and put them in an envelope and address it and mail it.   All that costs more than sending out your magazine quarterly by bulk mail.   To those that want a full set as a keepsake, the back issues are available. 

I talked about the SHO as a future collectible in this issue of the magazine.  It was not all good news, but then again, I will never try to pull the leather seats over your eyes as your editor.  I promise to tell you the truth to the best of my ability.  So the SHO is never going to be a heavy duty collector car and be worth millions of dollars.  (there is an outside chance I could be wrong, but I don't think Las Vegas would give odds, but you are free to disagree at any time).   This doesn't mean that we all can't have a million bucks worth of fun with our cars.

I see a lot of old cars at shows and cruise-ins that are not worth much, but their owners love them, and the crowds love to see them.   That is the way it will be with the S-H-O.  That is the way it is RIGHT NOW!  Do what I do, take your SHO to a local car show or cruise and pop the hood.  You will draw a crowd and that is fun.

I continue to get to know my 96 V8 better.  The wife and I took it on a 2500 mile trip to the East coast to do some preview work on the 2002 convention.   Have I got a dy-no-mite road for you when you come out there next year!  I worked the brakes, steering and my wife's patience for three hours on a "shortcut" guaranteed to leave you breathing hard and smiling big.  And it is right in SHO-JOE's back yard.  Our good friend Joe Hatcher from Virginia will be happy to tell all of you about all the good roads when we visit his home turf.

For now, we are scope-locked on the 2001 convention in Tulsa.  Things are shaping up nicely, and if you have not gotten your registration in, then contact me by E-mail and I will get a packet right out to you.   We have a few spots left for the track event, so you have not missed that yet (as of May 17th).  Check it out at: this page, the 2001 SHOklahoma Convention.

I finally went to see "Driven" by Sly Stallone.  My editorial is now on-line.

Summer is here, and for those of us in the mid-west, it is time to do all those car events we get tired of about October and pray for in March.  Get the SHO out and let it loose!

Don Mallinson

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