87 FHP in the corral
 

Drove to Warner Robbins GA Friday and spent the night at Gregg Henderson's. Then on Saturday Gregg and I drove down to sunny Florida to pick up the 87 car and take it back to his place. I drove back to Ohio with the car on Sunday.

When I first saw the pictures of the car I was a little skeptical but it turns out it is an excellent candidate for restoration. The car has both buck tags, certified speedo, all original body panels with no rust, original blue hoses and air silencer, with no modifications to the motor. Origianl door tag was masked over when the car was painted and is still legible. One key lock set with a five locks operational. The car still has the original black ten holes on it. It has an extra antenna hole in each rear quarter panel but all the body panels are very very straight with very few door dings etc. The interior was a mess and I will have to replace just about everything in the interior, including the dash since it has a 4" by 6" hole hacked into it.

I looked for a build sheet but as usual I found nothing. I am going to put a battery in it and try to get her fired up over the weekend. This car was used by Fort Mead Fl pd as a seargeants car after its time with FHP. I am still working on getting the unit number. Fort Mead PD may be able to help me with that since they think they still have some records in storage regarding the car. I will know more after they look for me.

pics will be posted over the next few days. she aint to pretty but she is solid............

Cool Jim! How many more to complete all the years?

Great find and I can't waite to see the pictures.

+1...waiting for the pics. :)

I need an 88 and I might have it located already. I need a 1991 to complete the set.

getting a good variety of cars has been tough but here is the breakdown.

82 CHP
83 FHP
84 WSP
85 TXDPS
86 ISP
87 FHP
88 AZ (probably)
89 MSP
90 ??? (still a secret) :)
91 ??? still looking
92 CHP
93 SCHP

I have the 84 OSP car but it is promised to someone and I have the 93 "last" FHP car.

Jim didn't mention the special SSP fog lights, "Square" spotlight, hanging in the breeze driver's tail pipe and "SUN" tach on the steering column. It never ceases to amaze me what some people do to these cars.:eek:

Having said all that - the car is really straight and all the panels have the tags on them. All the engine harnesses/vaccume lines etc are there. It was a good save and will be a beautiful car when completed. You have to have the ability to look beyond the present condition and see the potential to do this hobby.:thumbsup:

Very cool. Congrats on the latest addition to the SSP family! You need me to set up a Fotki account for you so we can all all see the cool cars?

The 89 FHP car that my buddy just picked up down here was also from Fort Meade. I got three VR60s off of the car from him, it was very original and basicaly sat since the auction from them. It was painted black and white.

Unfortunatley he is not restoring his, just keeping it as an all black lightly modded driver.

Very nice addition Jim, I've always liked the '87-'89 cars the best for their black wheels, interiors and performance and they look great in FHP livery too. This is the car MJ located, right?

Great Find! Can't wait to see pics.

speaking of the sun tach I got it removed in one piece. I can't decide if I want to remove the fog lights or not....as they are ...well interesting I guess.:rolleyes: Here is a pic as it sits on my trailer.

Wow! It still has the vent shades on it.

another pic showing the lovely dash....

yeh....a lucky find for sure on those items.

yes this is the car just up the road from MJ. I will restore the car back as an FHP car. I like the looks of them and since I have the 83 with the lighthouse light on top with dark brown interior, I wanted to have an FHP car with black wheels and tan interior.

Very nice, slicktop or with lightbar?

I like it! Looks like the last field find Roman did that he sold me that I sold to another fellow that funded the 85 CHP buy...

This one appears to have been painted very similarly to CHP in its last duty!

Have fun with that one...

jim,
PM me if you need a nice pass seat and nice upper rear seat for the car.
i have leftoevers from a past car i won't be using.
my ssp is a 91 and probably getting a 93 as well.
russ

I like that dash! What'd they have installed in there...a VCR?!

FHP
 

Great find Jim congrats!!!

Eric, you should have seen it - it was the switch panel from hell!! :Wow: The console ash tray lid was also converted to switches. If you turned them all on at once the alternator would have self distructed.:Throwit:

All of it very creative but easy to remove and Jim will replace the dash and console and this will be only a distant memory.

Oh yes tell me about it, thats why i let Jim have it instead of me.
Originally Posted by mac88chp
Very nice addition Jim, I've always liked the '87-'89 cars the best for their black wheels, interiors and performance and they look great in FHP livery too. This is the car MJ located, right?

Yes, this is the one i found.

The car still had strobes in the corners with all the wiring and switch panels. I found a wig-wag box in the front and rear plus about 15 pounds of wire under the dash to power everything. THANK GOD !! the mice ate the strobe wiring and not the original ford harnesses.

the mouse nest was under the rear passenger seat and about the size of a basketball.......and you can imagine the smell !!

Gregg....you were right about the ignition. When I removed the sun tach to preserve for you since it is from back when you were only 50 years old (1977).....I found the ignition module thingy you were talking about was in pieces. Hopefully I can replace it and then put in some fresh fuel and fire her up ?????

Gregg,
You look damn good for 81:runaway:

Just for that I hope the mice ate your build sheet!:biggrinjester:

The ignition switch is still available from Ford somewhere around $22. Let us know how it goes with fireing it up. Keep an eye on that fan to waterpump coupler.:luck:

Oh yes i remember finding the strobes and saw some wirings attached to it but couldn't trace it to where it goes, possibly because of mice ate it up as you mentioned, now it makes sense. 15 lbs worth of wiring? thats A LOT! :eek: Did you test the switch panels? Also are you going to keep the strobes in it?

i threw all the strobes, wiring,, etc. in the garbage. I kept the big switch box as I might need a switch or two in the future for something else. FHP did not run strobes in the corners of their mustangs so it will not be restored with them.

Ah ok.. i knew they didnt run strobes unless the trooper adds it himself which is very few.