So, I was sipping my coffee and checking e-mail this morning. Just about shot coffee out my mouth when I saw a mail from Trooper Herron with some "just found" in-service pics of my/his 87 WSP SSP. He's sending me the full-color images to scan and send back, but did manage to send these:
Car was buried in the snow from the HUGE storm we had back in 89 - and the answer I have heard is yes, they dug them out, put chains on and patroled in the Mustangs just like any other car:
Here's the front half of the car scraped off to give an idea of depth of the snowfall:
And finally - a shot of his son in front of the car circa 1990. The car in the back is also an 87 and belonged to Trooper George Martin (477WSP). Trooper Martin worked out of the Chehalis detachment.
Mike - once I get the pics scanned in color and not so grainy, feel free to add to the WSP section on the site. I'll post up once I get them in the mail.