I know what I will be doing later this month - writing web pages for 562 more SSP Mustangs in our VIN Project!

:D

Marti confirmed that all of these are from DSO 58 150. The colors broke out differently than previousley reported. The total of 20 consisted of 1 black, 3 dark gray, 2 light gray, 2 scarlet red, 3 medium shadow blue, 5 bright regatta blue, and 4 dark shadow blue. VINs/colors are:

193392
1C Black

193393
1D Dark Gray (Smoke Metallic)

193394
1D Dark Gray (Smoke Metallic)

193395
1D Dark Gray (Smoke Metallic)

193396
1K Light Gray (Smoke)

193397
1K Light Gray (Smoke)

193398
2D Scarlet Red

193399
2D Scarlet Red

193400
3R Medium Shadow Blue Metallic

193401
3R Medium Shadow Blue Metallic

193402
3R Medium Shadow Blue Metallic

193403
7H Bright Regatta Blue

193404
7H Bright Regatta Blue

193405
7H Bright Regatta Blue

193406
7H Bright Regatta Blue

193407
7H Bright Regatta Blue

193408
7N Dark Shadow Blue Metallic

193409
7N Dark Shadow Blue Metallic

193410
7N Dark Shadow Blue Metallic

193411
7N Dark Shadow Blue Metallic

Great work! :2thumbs:

Nice job, Bob! Did Kevin Marti send you something official (i.e. on letterhead) that we could use in our project? Otherwise we can grab a screenshot of your post.

:)

He sent me the partial VIN list with the color code (I added the color name to match the code and copied it all to my post). The DSO verification was in my PayPal correspondence. Screenshot of post should work.

That's fine for our needs here, Bob. I went through and edited your post slightly to condense it down a bit. In a few days, the post will be stamped with the date and time, as opposed to saying "Today" or "Yesterday". Then I will grab a screenshot(s) and save it all as a single JPG file for use on the new pages for each of those cars not already documented.

Great stuff! :)

Here is a discussion from FEP about the 1985 CHP and OSP cars -

Here is the confirmation we needed on 234940 -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info234940.htm


It was the first car in that order for the Oregon State Police. Have we confirmed that all six of those remaining cars (234940 - 234945) were part of the same DSO?

The Marti Report for 234940 also confirms that 234939 was the final CHP car in the batch, which allows us to determine that 234786 was the first CHP Mustang in the batch -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info234786.htm

So technically, we now have enough documentation to include all 154 of those CHP cars from 1985 in our VIN Project! (we don't know the VIN of the single pilot car that year)


EDIT: I was on vacation all last week, so I will be playing catch up on the cars that need to be added to our VIN Project. Please be patient. :)

All 154 of those 1985 CHP Mustangs are now added to our little project. Here is an example -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info234911.htm


In addition, all 20 of the 1989 Minnesota SSPs are now included in our project thanks to the work Bob did with Marti. Here is an example of the new pages added today for those MN cars not already documented -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info193392.htm


I think I will give up on trying to count the number of cars in our project now, but we are probably around 455 (+/-). With the additional documentation that Jim Young will be providing, the Marti Reports that are "in the works", and other cars that are still pending, we will be well over 1,000 documented SSPs fairly soon.

:D

Despite what I said earlier :p I had some time to kill recently and decided to see if I could quantify how many SSPs our VIN Project may be able to identify using our current count of documented cars. Knowing that SSPs were generally produced in batches, I figured that we could add up all of the batches with known SSPs to come up with an estimate for how many SSPs may be grouped together using the information in our VIN Project.

It is important to note that there are three critical flaws with this logic:

1. We know that civilian V8 coupes were sometimes thrown into the mix of known SSP batches. So far, we have seen this occur prior to or just after Ford ran a batch of specific DSO cars. So it is reasonable to believe that there are an unknown quantity of civilian cars as part of the consecutive unit number (called "CUN") batches containing SSPs.
2. Our Project only lists CUN batches for 3 or more cars. We know that Ford also produced SSP Mustangs in singles or pairs, but it is uncertain how many SSPs were produced in single/double groups. Only known singles or doubles are included in the estimate.
3. There are surely CUN batches that we have not identified yet as containing SSP Mustangs, so obviously those batches cannot be included in the estimate at this time.

So using this flawed estimate, by adding up all of the CUN batches we can account for roughly 8,350 SSP Mustangs so far. :) Despite the flaws, this estimate provides a quick glimpse into how many cars our VIN Project may be able to document. This number will only increase as more SSP Mustangs turn up.

Would you like ALL of the 5.0L coupe VINs? I can get you the singles and doubles. :D