Hmmmm....that tranny failure happened after I was done with the veh. and it had been turned back in for sale. I ran it out to about 70k miles when it was exchanged for a 1984. I would have guessed it was repainted and sold at auction before it hit 74k miles, but maybe it hung around and was used for a while in Sacramento before being sold.

It takes a lot to break a manual transmission and I wasn't hard on it. Gotta wonder what happened to it right after I was done with it.

Welcome back Steve! Your posts have been among my all time favorites. That is strange about the trans.

CHP 0204
 

Mustang Kid, are you still looking up '82s? I have CHP #0204.

Anyone have contact info for Mustangkid or the documentation he referenced to get the area offices and mechanical failures for the '82's? 0495 has surfaced. I believe this is the first 'new' '82 since Mustangkid provided the data. Where is that kid?!

I see Sam on Facebook. He's into Jeeps now. I've sent him a couple of notes to drop in on .NET but he has not done so yet. Maybe some others can reach him?

Mine is 0594. Newly acquired.

Alright! Great to have you here. Your car is a super original, solid foundation. Please share your plans and progress as you get into the car more.

He seemed to get into a fair amount of keyboard wars around the internet with veteran police car restorers. Probably needed a break from all of that.