Last week I was able to purchase 2 FHP SSP cars down in Florida. One of the cars was in Vero Beach. The owner had purchased the car at the FHP auction in 1996. He purchased the car with 116K miles for $5,800 and said it was by far the nicest SSP at that particular sale. He and his wife drove the car daily for the first 1 1/2 years and then used the car sparingly. The last time the car was registered was 2002 and it had been sitting in their carport. I was told the car was a "Lojack" equipped car. At first I thought ya sure! Well, after a little checking, he was right!
A carfax reveals that this particular car served the State of Florida in Miami and Palm Beach. Although this car has all the original body panels as noted by the VIN stickers, the carfax shows 2 accident reports with numbers were filed on the car. With the help and suggestions from "Bud" that I look at the pictures on the site showing a Lojack equipped car and that "Jarhead" was able to find the unit number of his FHP SSP through the accidents numbers, I contacted "Jarhead" with a PM and provided him with the 2 accident report numbers.
Marcus called me today and was able to provide to me the unit number of my new Lojack equipped FHP SSP which is unit #432. He was also able to get the accident reports which shows both were minor. He also looked at the agency pictures on page 2 which show 2 Lojack equipped SSP's and low and behold, courtesy of "Real Stories of the Highway Patrol", there is a picture showing a Trooper on his handheld radio with unit #432 in the background. The photo clearly confirms that #432 was a Lojack equipped car while in service. That's kinda neat to find that there is already an "in service" picture of the car already on the web!
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/FHP2.htm
I want to thank Bud and Marcus for their help in finding the unit # for this car and potentially the officer to whom the car was assigned. It is also neat to confirm with an in-service picture that the car was equipped with Lojack and Federal deck lights in the rear.
One thing I did learn from both of the pictures. The other Lojack equipped car in the pictures has the unit # on the roof. My car #432 does not.
Finding information such as this and more importantly, receiving the interest and help from other board members really makes this hobby a lot of fun.
Thanks for the help guys!!!!