1986 DPS Mustang M6-307 found

[ChrisL]

I've known about this car for a bit, finally got the owner to sell it to me this weekend. Ex-DPS car number M6-307. I haven't run the carfax on it yet to get any of those details.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/buickgs455/DPS2.jpg
The car has one bucktag (denoting the DPS color combo, and SSP pkg) the other was missing. Both spotlight mounts still there, 140 MPH speedo, relocated trunk release, hole in passenger side 1/4 for antenna, door tag is still legible.

The car originally had a regatta blue interior, so I'll have to track down all of that stuff in good shape. If anyone has a line on those parts let me know. It's a roller, so with any luck I'll find a fairly complete totaled '86 5.0 car that I can just start swapping stuff over from at some point. It needs a lot of work (probably just as much as the last one that Budd owns now) but at the price I couldn't pass it up, and these '86 DPS cars are about impossible to find. Just thought I'd share!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/buickgs455/DPS1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/buickgs455/DPS3.jpg

[mac88chp]

Congrats on your find and purchase. Seems '86 TX DPS Mustangs might be like '87 and '91 CHP Mustangs in that they certainly don't appear to be numerous anymore. Looks like an excellent project, keep us posted!

I like that SE Capri in the second shot.

[ImEvil1]

Nice save.

[NoDrama43]

+ 1 :thumbsup:

[MOstang]

Very cool...this will be a fun one to keep up with your progress. :2thumbs:

[stadair]

Nice save! :D

[ssp91ssp]

:thumbsup: good to see it's in good hands now .

ssp91ssp

[FlyinTiger]

Congrats on the find. I know that you have been searching for a long time.

[ChrisL]

Thanks guys, I have been looking for an other '86 Ex-DPS car for a while, they just never come up. I'd still really really like to find a driver quality one, and if one comes up I'll jump on it, but I just don't see that being very likely so I picked this project up.

I might have a lead on a yard with a blue '85/6 coupe interior, going to look in the morning. I'd really kill to find a low mile 4 cyl coupe with a minty blue interior that I could swap everything over from, all of the A/C and heater stuff has been removed from the car so I need to swap everything back over. And same for the engine bay, gutted as well so a wrecked '86 5.0 car would come in handy for the motor swap. I'll keep everyone updated with what I find.

[mustangretriever]

Looks like you could use Jim's steel SSP wheels too! Cool car!

[28HopUp]

Chris, that's an awesome find. Congrats! Wishing you luck on your project. Please keep posting pictures as you work on the car.

[buddyjoe]

Nice

[NoDrama43]

Looks like you could use Jim's steel SSP wheels too! Cool car!

hey Eric thanks for thinking of me there. :)

[ChrisL]

Thanks for all of the compliments guys, I'm excited to get this one going. I have someone who can do paint/body for me, but I'm not going to start the project until I have all of the parts (namely the interior) collected. Once I have an interior for it, I'll strip it all the way down and take it to (most likely) have it blasted and then painted back to in-service colors. Then the process of installing the interior, drivetrain, etc can start taking place and hopefully get her back on the road.

[ChrisL]

Looks like I've sourced two wheels, should have a couple more coming. Also might have sourced a single lock set, I believe the ignition on the car has been changed and is not the single key type.

Quick question for everyone though, is there any way to figure out what the license plate number would have been on this car? It looks like most of the '86 Texas cars had 500 * XXX and it looks like the second half usually started with a 3. But, it looks like car numbers weren't assigned in order of the VIN so it's impossible to tell.

Any ideas?