1994 Ford Taurus SHO Pickup Resurfaces After Five Months

March 10, 2025 1:02 pm

1994 Ford Taurus SHO Pickup - Exterior 002 - Front Three Quarters

Last fall, we came across a very unusual vehicle listed for sale – a 1994 Ford Taurus SHO that has been converted into a pickup. While this certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen sometime take a passenger car and replace the rear section with a bed, it is the only Taurus SHO pickup that we’ve come across over the years, and it’s been up for sale on more than one occasion. Now, several months, later, that’s once again the case.

This very unusual yet well-done 1994 Ford Taurus SHO pickup is back up for sale on Facebook Marketplace, this time, with a lower asking price of $5,000 compared to the $6,500 the seller was seeking last October. It’s still located in Kansas and is seemingly being sold by the same person that tried to offload the second-generation Ford Taurus SHO previously. In fact, they used the same pictures, showing off a conversion that involved chopping the high-performance sedan in half and mating with the bed from a Ford Ranger that was built before the pickup resurfaced as a mid-size model in 2019.

That means this Taurus SHO pickup is still packing the original Yamaha-developed 3.0L V6 making 220 horsepower and 200 pound-feet of torque, mated to a five-speed manual gearbox. From the B-pillar back, this former high-performance sedan is all Ranger, however, and for the most part, that combination works. At least from the front three quarters angle, it looks like it belongs, and possibly could have left the factory like this. However, when viewed from other angles, we can see that bed is a bit narrower than the body – and where the two meet isn’t exactly the most elegantly-executed work, but it also isn’t quite as horrible as some other botched pickup conversions we’ve seen previously.

Not much else is known about this build, given the fact that the seller isn’t the one who put it together, but underneath, it seems as if the rear portion of the Ranger’s frame was mated to the unibody structure of the Taurus. Otherwise, this is still a front-wheel drive machine with a regular old stock Ford Taurus SHO interior, and clearly, it’s put together well enough that it has survived quite a few years to this point. Regardless, it hasn’t quite managed to find its forever home just yet, but perhaps that will be the case this go-round.

H/T: Jalopnik

By Brett Foote

Brett's lost track of all the Fords he's owned over the years and how much he's spent modifying them, but his current money pits include an S550 Mustang and 13th gen F-150.