1989 CHP EVOC Mustang #5281

[Mustang Kid]

(This is my dads car not mine, but I will probably own it someday:D )
My dad bought this car in 2002 from the CHP. It has been parked and covered for about 8 years so EVOC #5281 is still just like how it left the CHP(rollbar, paint, "X's" on the doors, ect.). The car has had 4-5 engine replacements(motor presently in the car has less than 500 miles on it), 5-6 transmission replacements, and 5-6 rear ends due to being ran hard on the track(all EVOC Mustangs have had the running gear replaced at one time or another), although the EVOC cars were highly maintained and maintained better than the rest of the CHP fleet. The interior is still ALL original(other than the exception of seatbelts so my dad could drive the car and so I can ride along), it was repainted once by the CHP, but it is now highly rock chipped in the front and around the rocker panels from being on the track. #5281 was used on the track longer, probably trained more cadets on how to drive the mustangs, and has higher miles(32k) from track use at the acadamy than all the other EVOC Mustangs.

Recently, I helped dig the car out to clean it and get it going again. After moving the parts my dad had behind the car, my dad and I pushed it out of the hole it was in. I have vaccumed and cleaned the interior and have washed and buffed the exterior. Buffing the paint shined it up nice. After trying to get the old gas out of the tank (barely anything in the tank anyway), my dad put some fresh gas in the tank and I hooked up the jump box to the battery in it for power. Amazingly, my dad turned the key and it started right up:D ! The next day (after airing the tires back up to the correct pressure) we took it for its first drive in 8-9 years(if I can get them uploaded to YouTube I will post the vids).

My dads plan(in the future) with the car is to redo the exterior, do nothing with the interior other than paint the roll bar and add the safety harnesses, and put the e-equipment back in. I will continue adding pics and progress info as work is done.

Here's #5281 in action
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocmustangdrift.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocmustangfollowedbychevys.jpg

The '92 is mid-360 and the 89 is the mustang farther out.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocmustangs360.jpg

Before getting it out.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0678.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0676.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0677.jpg
More pics to come:yes:

[MOstang]

Very cool info and pics....thanks for sharing. :cool:

[Mustang Kid]

Forgot to add: The CHP replaced the mufflers with strait pipes.

[ImEvil1]

Good stuff!

[Mustang Kid]

Pics of when my dad got it.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC6.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC1.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC3.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC4.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC5.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC8.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC7.jpg

My dad with the mustang and a friends ex-CHP caprice.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC11.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/EVOC12.jpg

[NoDrama43]

great information. evoc cars are known to be literally beat into the ground but they for sure served a purpose. It is very nice to see original pictures being posted up !!!! thanks....

[calimustang]

wow that's awesome pics! dang, the last pic.. look at the gas price in the background... sure would love to have that price back again!

[28HopUp]

Sam, thanks for posting up the pictures of your Dad's EVOC car. Great story!

[mac88chp]

Thanks for sharing those...great stuff! Here are some photos of the car taken sometime in the '90s at an open house event at the academy. The gent who shot them now also lives in Oregon and owns a '93 ex-CHP Mustang.

http://images116.fotki.com/v709/photos/4/438439/1947960/chp_academy_05vi-vi.jpg

http://images27.fotki.com/v985/photos/4/438439/1947960/chp_academy_03vi-vi.jpg

http://images27.fotki.com/v981/photos/4/438439/1947960/chp_academy_04vi-vi.jpg

http://images116.fotki.com/v711/photos/4/438439/1947960/chp_academy_06vi-vi.jpg

http://images116.fotki.com/v711/photos/4/438439/1947960/chp_academy_07vi-vi.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

Thanks guys! More photos to come. Those inservice photos will help with its restoration, thanks. My dad and I would like to find photos taken from the passenger door into the interior to better show how the dash equipment was mounted.

[mac88chp]

Thanks guys! More photos to come. Those inservice photos will help with its restoration, thanks. My dad and I would like to find photos taken from the passenger door into the interior to better show how the dash equipment was mounted.From the drivers side photo, it looks like the Rangr head was mounted on a modified shotgun/radio rack which may be similar to the one used on the '92 EVOC. Here's a photo from the passenger side of that car after it was restored.

http://images58.fotki.com/v513/photos/4/438439/1955813/92EVOC-vi.jpg

I can't vouch for the accuracy of that mounting. Try contacting the owners who participated in that project as they will likely have more details. The one who is on this forum is "xxtrpr." I found this photo on the Mecum auction site, you may be able to find more photos by searching the web.

[mac88chp]

Found more sale photos of the restored '92 interior:

http://images57.fotki.com/v496/photos/9/438439/9512790/P1070816-vi.jpg

http://images54.fotki.com/v1615/photos/9/438439/9512790/P1070818-vi.jpg

http://images45.fotki.com/v148/photos/9/438439/9512790/P1070819-vi.jpg

http://images107.fotki.com/v70/photos/9/438439/9512790/P1070820-vi.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

I'm pretty sure that my dads was mounted differently without the gun rack, however the modified gun rack may be what the 92 originally had.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0874.jpg

It had a bracket off the top of the dash connecting to the part of the radio rack where the gun rack would have connected (like in the 92).
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0876.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0879.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

Here is when we got it out and after I washed it and cleaned the interior.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0903.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0904.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0907.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0917.jpg

Clean interior.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0971.jpg

After washing.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0975.jpg

[Rhino]

Off topic: I spy a box bodied Caprice in the background - CHP?
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0904.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

Off topic: I spy a box bodied Caprice in the background - CHP?

It is actually a barn find 84 Oregon State Police Impala that my dad and his friend got to restore.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/other%20pics/IMG_6345.jpg

Original paint and interior, untouched for 20 years, still just like it left the auction(other than the hubcaps, whip antenna, and lightbar :) ).
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/other%20pics/IMG_2821.jpg

[Rhino]

Cool. And is that a 2002 B4C I see on the left? Don't mean to hijack the thread. PM me the details so we keep this on track. :)
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/other%20pics/IMG_2821.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

No prob. PM sent :)

[28HopUp]

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0975.jpg

Sam, I won't be presumptuous and tell you or your dad what to do with his car, but if that were my car... :)

...I would consider only making a few changes to it. These cars are only original once, even if they are showing their age. I would clean the black X paint off the doors, and add the CHP logos and lettering back onto the doors and decklid (even if you had to repaint the doors white). Then you could look at adding the CHP equipment that it used to have, and call it done. That car as it sits is oozing with character!

[MOstang]

I was thinking the same as you on this one, Bill.

[mac88chp]

Agree wholeheartedly. Tried to convince the third owner of the '92 EVOC to keep it original too but it fell on deaf ears. That car looks good today but would have been ever more desirable as a lightly preserved survivor...all it needed was door paint, decals, equipment and some new roll bar padding.

[Mustang Kid]

I want my dad to get the title issues fixed so we could possibly take the car like it is to the Ripon Show, dont think it will happen though, but my dad may bring (if we can go) "the last CHP Caprice #2080". I may try and convince my dad to leave the car alone and do what you guys suggested. I too think that the car would be more desirable and neat preserved like it is.

[Mustang Kid]

Car wont go to Ripon this year. But the problem my dad sees with keeping the paint mostly like it is is that there are thousands of rock chips and the paint isn't very nice either(but it looks somewhat nice in the photos) and the door jambs have turned to flat black. Heres some pics of after I hand buffed the paint out(the hood was the worst and took like 15-20 min. to buff out).
Before buffing(ugly paint)
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_1028.jpg

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_0920.jpg

Faded, non-cleared paint.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_1027.jpg

After buffing
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_1085.jpg

Don't be fooled by the shiny paint...
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_1087.jpg

[calimustang]

To be honest, my SSP is in a lot worse shape than yours and it's original and yours looks a lot better than mine. I did bring it to a local mustang meet, guys kept coming to see it and was amazed to see how rough she is but pretty motor. So why not show yours as it is as it was retired and rolled into your ownership? You can always get a sign "restoration in process" on windshield then they wouldn't ask any silly questions based on its condition.

:2thumbs:

[Mustang Kid]

Thats a good idea, thanks:thumbsup:

Doing somemore digging, I found a set of correct decklights for a mustang, so I set them in the car. I'm finding all the equipment little by little:D .
Heres a photo I took with the webcam on my computer(as my dad left his camera at home).
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/110810-170004-1.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

Heres the video I took of it starting for the first time in 8 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyukyPEIDaw

[Rhino]

That would sound great in my garage. ;) Haha. :)

[MOstang]

Nice. :thumbsup:

[Mustang Kid]

Heres another vid of it running :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36SGU5iFeM

[Mustang Kid]

That would sound great in my garage. ;) Haha. :)

Lol. It sounds a lot louder and cooler in person. Sounds like a racecar to me:)

[Mustang Kid]

A couple pics.
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_1828.jpg

My dad got on the throttle a bit. It was fun:D The speedometer is wrong also, we were in a 55 zone, the speedo said 70, and grannies were flying past us(it didnt feel like 70 either). We got a lot of looks to while driving it:)
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/IMG_1831.jpg

[Mustang Kid]

I found a video I hadnt seen before of 5281 while surfing google for CHP SSP pics!!!:D

Short but sweet:cool:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sspvortech/2684909820/

[Mustang Kid]

Found some more inservice action shots:D This was #5281s last run before the motor went. They replaced the motor then it was sold(to my dad). 5281 is the lead Mustang. A couple photos are of the Camaro
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp2.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp3.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp4.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp5.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp6.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp7.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp8.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp9.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp10.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp11.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp15.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp16.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp17.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp18.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp19.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp20.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp21.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp14.jpg
http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/evocssp13.jpg

[28HopUp]

Awesome pictures, Sam! :2thumbs:

[Griswald]

Everything about this thread is killer! What a score!

[Mustang Kid]

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/h340/Mustang_Kid84/89%20EVOC/P4230144.jpg

[MOstang]

Great find on those plates! :cool:

[calimustang]

sweet find! going to show it as the way it is or restore it?

[Mustang Kid]

sweet find! going to show it as the way it is or restore it?

Well, I am going to try and convince my dad(if he hasn't been convinced yet:D ) to just repaint the roll cage and the doors, put the decals back on along with the equipment and call it good:)
Unfortunately, the CHP had a cheap repaint put on it and its already starting to fail in spots. :(

[Mustang Kid]

New updates possibly coming soon! :D

[28HopUp]

Thanks for poking your head in the door, Sam. Good to hear from ya! :D

[mac88chp]

Hey Sam, hope you and your Dad can make it to the upcoming events in Sac. and Ripon.