1989 $50K CHP Mustang For Sale
 

Not mine. This car was for sale last year.
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/2419716672.html

Warning: the owner is a known squirrel and God knows what he's babbling about in that ad. His solution for the car not selling last year was to double the price this year. :thumbsdown:

Geez, ! hope someday someone is able to rescue this unique car.

Pics of it when I last saw it in 2006:

http://images51.fotki.com/v731/photo...1010376-vi.jpg

http://images52.fotki.com/v738/photo...1010393-vi.jpg

What a mistake IMO...."Top signed by Pete Carrol and Carrol Shelby."

Truly Retarded

Rich, I think you should buy it! :)

Mike, you're not alone in that opinion. Can somebody remind me what significance Pete Carol and Carrol Shelby had with the SSP Mustangs or the CHP? Absolutely nothing, which is what their signatures add to this car. Perhaps a new owner can use some polishing compound to remove those ink marks. And the fake bullet holes and other stickers should peel off, right?

So, let me ask this...

What makes this CHP EVOC so signifigant over any other known surviving CHP EVOC out there, that IT commands a $50k asking price?

Also, how did the current owner acquire the vehicle?

What is deemed "VERY FAST" by the Seller's craigslist statement? LOL...

This car and its owner have been well known in Northern CA for some time and are the subject of this 1996 article:

http://images52.fotki.com/v738/photo...88evoc1-vi.jpg

You can read it here (3 pages):

http://public.fotki.com/Classicchp/s...hp88evoc1.html

The owner has claimed that the car came from the CHP with the red GT seating but I don't believe that fact has ever been confirmed. The presence of the door moldings and trailer hitch are also a bit puzzling but aside from those items plus the roof signatures and the stupid assortment of juvenile stickers that have been added the car is unrestored and mostly original.

It didn't appear in the famous EVOC video featuring the 1992 Mustang because that's the year it was sold off and that video was made some years later. Bottom line: it's a very interesting CHP unit that should be preserved (NOT restored) back to its original condition and deserves better treatment and stewardship than it has received for many years but is no way worth even half the current asking price.

I'd say you are looking at at least a restoration of suspension and critical frame components. EVOC cars are the worst for abuse and carry the most significant issues even with their low miles on the cars, Mustang or not. Face it, these cars are flogged to the point of no return and will not be a good choice if you want reliability unless you spend time going through the suspension, structural points on the car.

As for the seats, it's possible that they replaced them over time as the original seats get worn out but I'd be skeptical of them coming that way from CHP. Interesting $5000.00 car.

You know, I just noticed this line in the ad:

Owner is the head instructor at Cal and UCLA in collecting and restoring of "Classic Cars"

I checked UCLA's and Cal's websites and could not find any classes in this area. Very Strange.

The owner has also done his fair share of flogging the car post-CHP having run the car for years at open track events:

http://images32.fotki.com/v1108/phot...1010386-vi.jpg

Some chassis rebuilding is a given here but remember that these are very tough little cars. There are tons of Fox Mustangs, SSPs and non, that are still out there on the tracks today.

http://images52.fotki.com/v738/photo...1010381-vi.jpg

Maybe they replaced them as a cheap upgrade when a pair became available. Anything's possible...the '92 EVOC car came from the CHP equipped with an air inlet tube and filter housing off a '94 Mustang.