Conan O'brien Still Loves His Ford Taurus Sho

Conan O'Brien has featured immoderate alternatively absorbing cars, ranging from a rickety aged Trabant to a BMW i8 connected nan autobahn, not to mention nan Bugatti Veyron Mouse. But possibly his astir celebrated thrust is his 1992 Ford Taurus SHO, which he bought caller and still owns today. On a caller section of his podcast, "Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend," he talked astir his desire to "get it rehabbed and bring it back."

O'Brien's Taurus has go 1 of his moving jokes complete nan years. "It would travel up a batch of times pinch celebrities wherever they would say, 'I conscionable sewage a caller Ferrari aliases something, what do you drive, Conan?' and I say, '1992 Ford Taurus SHO, Super High Output!' and it would get a laugh. And it would beryllium like, 'No, I'm being honest, that's what I really have." The SHO differed from other... Tauruses? Taurus? Taurii? Anyway, it had a unsocial 220-horsepower 3.0-liter V6 from Yamaha nether nan hood, mated to a five-speed manual transmission successful early models for illustration O'Brien's. That's a very Jalop thrust if I've ever seen one.

The Taurus SHO made regular appearances complete nan years, pinch O'Brien leaning difficult into it being a cool car that really isn't (even though it really is). He tried to impressment Lisa Kudrow pinch it, and utterly failed. In 1 segment, he tried to get it insured arsenic 1 of his astir prized possessions. In another, he joked astir giving it to Brad Pitt, who proceeded to peel retired and, according to nan podcast, messed up his clutch successful nan process. "Brad Pitt f***ed up my Ford Taurus. And who tin opportunity that?"

Aside from Brad Pitt, O'Brien's Taurus SHO has been sadly neglected for years. This "60 Minutes" conception from 2010 shows it covered successful particulate truthful heavy that group person written messages successful it. (O'Brien says it's amended than model tint because it's free.) It still had its original Massachusetts inspection sticker from 1992 erstwhile he bought it. Not visible successful nan clip are nan holes near by squibs that simulated a shootout for a "Tonight Show" segment, arsenic O'Brien explains connected nan podcast.

It seems he mislaid way of nan Taurus complete nan years, but he still owns it and precocious recovered it successful a Warner Bros. parking garage. He was amazed it hadn't been towed away. Now, he'd for illustration to get nan car backmost and reconstruct it to its erstwhile glory. Leno's Law whitethorn not person passed, but nan Taurus SHO is simply a somewhat uncommon classical now that would fresh successful perfectly astatine Radwood. I personally dream he tin support nan 1992 Massachusetts inspection sticker, and not conscionable because it's portion of nan car's heritage. My first car besides had a 1992 Massachusetts inspection sticker, and I'd for illustration to deliberation that personification for illustration Conan O'Brien and I person astatine slightest 1 point successful common.