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Originally Posted by John10608
The SSP and the 69 Polara are privately owned vehicles. The other 2 are CHP Museum cars. ( up close they are pretty rough ) lol
( the Crown Vic was a local CHP area's patrol car. )
That is why they did not have some of the other cars. The museum does not have too many cars.
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The '66 Polara shown was restored probably 20 years ago, the '70 Mercury was restored around 2002 in Texas and the owner brought it to retirees day and Ripon that year. He bought some other car while he was in the area and put that on his trailer and headed home. He left the Mercury with CHP, he says only for storage but the CHP considered it a donation. I have no idea what paperwork he signed but the car remains with the CHP to this day, I'm only relaying what the owner told me.
At that time the Mercury was a very nice restoration, the paint, bodywork and detailing were second to none. It needed a few details corrected (equipment, pushbar, etc) but was easily the nicest car CHP had in the collection. Once cars go out to that storage building they seem to go downhill in a big way.
The '67 Olds has been at Ripon for the last 12 or 13 years