Progress with my 89 Minnesota SSP

[MOstang]

Hello,

Thought that I would post an update re: progress with returning my 1989 Minnesota State Patrol (MSP) SSP to period correct in-service specs. With the help of a few Twin Cities based friends in the PCOOA I've been able to learn some great historical content, info about my SSP, and also make a great contact within the Minnesota State Patrol.

When you combine and add up all of those things, I've been able to detail and document the MSP Mustang equipment setup. To help with organizing and retaining that information, I've authored a Minnesota State Patrol SSP Mustang History & Restoration Guidebook. It was pretty easy to do since the hard part (after researching what the MSP used) of typing the format was aleady done with my North Carolina State Highway Patrol SSP History & Restoration Guidebook. Also so far through this process I've identified 7 of the 20 MSP VIN's and 7 newspaper articles from the time.

Have the last few items needed for the SSP on order plus one other item I'm going to pick up from a PCOOA member while at the Indy convention. One of the items that has been on order is the door shield, which will hopefully not take too much longer. To that end if all goes as expected I'll have everything in place and this SSP returned to period correct in-service condition by end of July. Just in time to get some good pics and enjoy it some this summer! As always I'll be sure to post up some relevant pics along the way of the progress.