1988 Pierce County Sheriff Dept #1310
 

1988 Pierce County SD SSP - Unit #1310

I figured I would also join the bandwagon and post up some pictures of my car as well. Always nice to see progress. Car is mostly good to go for shows, but needs some tweaks/finishing work. Always something to do.

This is one of roughly 18 cars that were sequenced in 1988 for Pierce County. We think there were 3-4 White K9 SSPs, 1 Blue LT car, 1 Silver LT car, and about 10 Cabernet Red traffic cars. Pierce County purged their records long ago - so the above is a best guess based on the info that we have been able to track down.

To date, there is one car still in-service with PCSD (#1308) - and is used as a promotional car about once a year at the Puyallup Fair - used as a recuiting display.

Robert King owns Red Traffic car #1301
David Burnett in Australia owns the Blue LT car #1317
I own 2 red traffic cars: #1304 and #1310 (EDIT: sold this one to Buddy in 2012)
Curtis Lee owns a red traffic car #1302
#1307 was posted on here in late 2010 - found in Denver and likely scrapped (was a roller when we found it)

Robert and I are not 100% sure, but we believe (via CarFax tracking) we have likely traced down all of the known privately held cars. Most have been off the road since the early 90s. Who knows...maybe there is another one hiding out there.

Here's what my car looked like the very first time I saw it. Was owned by a guy who had "pimped it out" with dubs, a bangin' system, etc. He was using it as his cruiser:
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Here I am standing behind the car chatting with the owner thinking (If only we could put you back to normal). :)
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I got my chance about 1.5 years later. Robert found the car through CL locally. He looked at it and had to pass on it due to timing. While I didn't need another SSP, I liked the cabernet color and thought it would be a fun car to bring back. And being a native to Pierce County - it just felt right.

Here it is the day I bought it:
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Rims were gone, beats were gone. But got a nicely jacked up suspension, dead alternator and a sweet air freshener glued to the dash to cover the equipment cabling holes.

The roof had a really poor bondo job done on it, and was really cracked. I ended up having it completely stripped down to metal, and then repaired.

Hard to see - but the cracking on the roof was massive!
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Roof stripped:
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That pile of dust there against the wall - used to be my roof bondo:
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Once finished - looks good now:
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With the help of Robert, took a set of good WSP 10 holes and repainted them to a newer coat of black. And then masked the car to paint the mouldings back to black as well:

Wheels:
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Moulding Prep:
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Paint going on (Robert manning the can):
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Finished look:
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Found the correct Unity H10300 dual light spotlight and installed it along with a Jetsonic, Unitrol 480K, GE S550 control head + radio, rollbar, etc.

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Decals were recreated based off of measurements from Robert's car (where you could still see the clearcoat outlines), and from images that we gathered from photos over the years. Orange pinstripe was applied (same as on the in-service car).

Here you can see mine (Left) along with Robert's red (right) and blue slicktop PCSD car:
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I love those Pierce County SD SSPs...hope to see one in person some day. Great job to both of you. :2thumbs:

Outstanding work guys. The cars look great keep up the good work. The blue unit looks especially nice.

Yes, yes it does. Helps that the former owner took really good care of it. ;) I see it every few weeks, and am still envious of it.

Thanks for the pictures Ryan. Those PCSD cars are so nice looking! So is Robert's car the one that has a cage/divider in it? That's a neat little feature seldom-seen in an SSP.

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Yes, in the blue one Robert has a standard roll bar. In the red one he has a full partition/cage. A few years back we found 2 NOS setups from some guy that used to work for Setina.

Robert put one in his car, and I have one for my 87 WSP (which had one originally). They are unique, and rare. But...makes driving very weird. Like driving in a phone booth. Troopers used to call these car setups: "rolling coffins" - cause if you ever got sideswiped, it would be your coffin.

It's time to bump this thread 4.5 years later. The car was subsequently sold by Ryan to Buddy, who sold it earlier in 2015 to a "museum" in Florida that tried to flip the car for serious coin. Eventually, the seller listed it on eBay without a reserve, and the car was sold for a fair price. :cool: The car will be headed up the East Coast to its new home - my place! I will update this thread as the improvements are made to the car. :D

Sweet looking SSP! Congrats Bill !

Congrats, Bill! So glad you ended up with the car - and - on to the next chapter for it's history. :)

The next chapter starts now. PCSD #1310 just arrived this morning in Georgia. Photo credit to Bobby. More pics to come for sure! :)

As an aside, I worked out a deal with the museum for the radio equipment that Rhino had with the car. All of it will be shipped with the magnets that they forgot to put into the car when it was shipped.

The eagle has landed...

At least the first stop on its way to Bill;)

Documentation was included in the purchase, and the museum put it all in the car when it was shipped. Bobby snapped this photo of a picture of a red traffic unit. There may be no way to confirm this photo as being my car but it does show some interesting details on how this car was marked. The scroll under the molding is fairly clear, and there is no unit number or SHERIFF marking on the front fender. It is my understanding that the PCSD would change the markings somewhat on the cars while they had them, and it could be that not all cars were consistently marked the same way.

very nice Bill. Glad it made it safely and the deal went through. That is going to be a great addition to the MCA show at Niagra next year right?????

The Niagara MCA Show runs July 22-24 2016. The car should be in fine shape at that point, so I will put it on the calendar as a "strong maybe". The 2016 MCA National Show is Sept 30 - Oct 2 2016 and is in Myrtle Beach, SC. If we bring the PCSD car down there for that show it may stay in South Carolina indefinitely!

The unit # was only on the driver's side front fender (mailbox numbers). Scroll work was on both doors under the molding. Although, in this pic the scroll is darker (black with gold relief), and I have seen one version which was lighter (goldfish color with darker writing). Maybe they changed it up based on what was available at the County garage. The full shield on the in-service car was done at some point - perhaps preference at the time, but the molding with the cut shield is correct on both sides.

Interesting to see the lightbar bolted through the roof. Which wreaked havoc on the cars with roof ripples/bar movement.

So cool to see this in-service pic. Thanks for sharing!

I did not know that. Cool! :cool:

The title arrived today, along with the repair receipts from previous owners. Also included were the all-important Buck Tags! I am VERY pleased that these did not get lost along the way. :yes:

Very nice Bill. Cannot wait to see it next summer.

Nice!!

Thanks guys. Bobby and I have finalized the details on repainting the car. It will be getting the full treatment. I will need to order some parts (drip rails, belt moldings, side moldings, and emblems) because the ones on the car will be coming off. I plan to wait for some Black Friday sales before ordering those parts. The window trim and side 1/4 windows will be removed as part of the body prep prior to paint (the plan will be to restore the windows I have if nicer OEM ones cannot be found for reasonable money).

It is a bit more of a project than I had intended to bite off at this time, but I told Bobby that I will never regret doing things the right way. The final result should look great. Being factory red SSP with a nice in-service history, it will certainly be an attention-getter.

Cool car, congrats!

This just in from Bobby
 

Obviously this is not a great thing to see. I knew the paint on the hood was cracked, and now we can see why. Both Bobby and I are gonna look for a new hood. I hope the rest of the body is decent once Bobby takes off the paint. It WILL look great once the body and paint are done! :)

As an aside, the museum received my payment today for the radio equipment and magnetic decals, so those should be shipped soon. :thumbsup:

Wearing her ugly "for paint" shoes....

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Thanks for the teaser pics, Bobby! :thumbsup: I like the shot of the driver's side because of the GSP car in the upper left corner of the photo. The PCSD car will look awesome when it is completed. I only hope it's not gonna be too nice to drive. ;)

Too nice to drive? That's what cars are made for, regardless of the condition.

Oh don't worry, Mike. This car is gonna get around. :)

Great to see progress pics! She's going to look SWEET when done! :)

Thanks Ryan! Although I have yet to see the car in person, Bobby has been great with providing me updates and photos (more than get posted here). The car should be beautiful when he is done with it, and I look forward to picking up the car and bringing it home (just in time for winter!).

I'll second that sentiment! :)

Ahhh, I remember the "ugly paint wheels" phase on my car well. Look how high it sat in the back with everything stripped out from the innards except one junker seat. The quarter windows openings are covered with plastic.

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Is more of the interior going to be removed from yours before it hits the paint booth? Looking forward to seeing more progress pics....

I can't help it... I love the flat black doors on your CHP. My favorite is the flat black asterisk or X on the white doors. It just screams fresh out of service lol

The jams look good so we're not redoing those. Bill will handle any interior upgrades once he gets it home. So we will not be gutting the interior. Quarter window openings are and will remain "crash wrapped" until reassembly. I need to post up a underhood pic as the engine bay ( other than a few A/M bolt ons) looks really nice and clean.

Here are a couple of in-progress pics of the roof from Bobby...

Proof that if you do Maaco - you buy it twice. Bill, sorry that the roof re-do I did years back did not hold up. :( On the bright side...did the prep show the lightbar holes (or lack of them)? And...any indication of NMO hole on rear of roof?

Ryan,
All four welded up hole repairs held. (Lightbar wire hole; rear Antenna? & holes even with light bar wire holes , but only smaller & on very edges of roof) The cracking was from the light bar. Either incorrectly mounted or just too heavy I'm not sure. :thumbsup:

I think it's got yellow spotted fever...:eek:

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