1982 CHP Mustang Bought on Ebay 02/02 2011

[SSPCHPSTANG3101]

Originally Posted by SSPCHPSTANG3101

For those of you who may be wondering what happened to the 1982 CHP Mustang (1FABP10F7CF213064) listed on ebay back in February 02, 2011, well I am glad to tell you all I purchased this car on ebay with intentions of restoring this vehicle back into its service condition. The car was purchased in Van Nuys California and is now permanently located in my hometown of Bakersfield California. In the short time that I have owned this historical vehicle I have stayed focused on just acquiring the hard to find period correct equipment this vehicle once had.Here is a short recap of this vehicles progress and whats been going on with it. I was fortunate to get in contact with Robert Reed not long after my ebay purchase and with his help I was able to acquire most of the equipment I was looking for."C L" has also been a valuable site for me on two caissons in acquiring some of this vehicles other hard to find equipment. I posted a listing in "Auto Parts" category in Sacramento and the header said this "Wanted CHIP Ford Mustang Wheels".I went a far to paste a picture of what style wheels and hubcaps I was looking for in my listing. Then one day approximately five weeks later and out of the blue an older gentleman responded to my listing. The first thing he said," is this Eric,I have what you are looking for". I almost hung up on him and not realizing he was responding to my Wanted Posting.(I am glad I did not hang up on him)The gentleman informed me he once owned a retired 1982 CHIP Mustang that he purchased after its retirement from state service and that he believed he had a set of wheels and tires that I was looking for.The gentleman also informed prior to selling his Mustang several years ago he had removed its wheels tires and hubcaps and replaced them with a set of aftermarket wheels and tires. When the kind gentleman proceeds to tell me that after all these years he still had the CHP Mustang wheels tires and hubcaps from his Mustang in his storage building, the phone almost fell out of my hand.Then when the gentleman informs me he wanted one hundred and fifty dollars for the whole set and that he would send pictures later on that afternoon.Needless to say a text message appeared on my phone with three pictures of the wheels and tires my heart stopped. I thought to myself how cool how this transpired To make a long story short,two weeks later the kind gentleman was driving into Bakersfield California on his way to vacation in Arizona.In the back of his truck was the complete set of CHP wheels tires and hubcaps for my Mustang. Just recently I listed a "Wanted Federal Signal CC1" along with a picture in the Los Angeles "C L" Auto Parts category and I get a call with in two weeks from a gentleman living in the Orange County area and he tells me he had an extra CC1 available for sale.Well needless to say after 2 1/2 hour drive up to Orange County from Bakersfield I bought a working Federal Signal CC1.I am looking forward to moving on with this project.Unfortunately my Mustangs unit number and E plate umber is unknown at this time as the driver side door was replaced at one time and Mr Reed has not been able to find my Service Card for this car at CHP Motor Transport. I recently attended the 2011 Ripon Car show and was fortunate to meet "mac88chp" and got to see his beautiful restored CHP Mustang. His encouragement for me to keep moving forward with my project has refueled my motivation to attend the 2012 Ripon event with my CHP Mustang in its finished or unfinished states.

Hello everyone,after all the encouraging messages and the requests from my first posting here I have pictures to share of my unknown Unit. Here are the first pictures I took of my retired 1982 CHP Mustang when I brought it home from the Los Angeles area back at the beginning of the year. She is rough and needs a full restoration.With its historical value I will continue to keep moving forward to restore it back to its service condition.Since I have owned this car I have been actively acquring all the equipment needed for this project before I start tearing into the car. For some unknown reasons someone removed the 4 speed manual transmission and converted to an automatic car. I am glad to say I now have all the parts to reconvert back to a manual transmission.

[Mustang Kid]

I like it! It is great that it is pretty original. Interesting how someone used vinyl top trim to separate the white top from the body. A+ on posting lots of pics

[SSPCHPSTANG3101]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

I like it! It is great that it is pretty original. Interesting how someone used vinyl top trim to separate the white top from the body. A+ on posting lots of pics

I wondered about those trim pieces being origina.l Thanks, and I will posting some pictures by the end of the week if not sooner .

[28HopUp]

Originally Posted by SSPCHPSTANG3101

Hello everyone,after all the encouraging messages and the requests from my first posting here I have pictures to share of my unknown Unit.

I totally missed your post. Thanks for sharing so many pictures of your car. It looks like a great starting point for your restoration.

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

I like it! It is great that it is pretty original. Interesting how someone used vinyl top trim to separate the white top from the body. A+ on posting lots of pics

Sam, check out the CHP picture gallery, and you'll see on the 1982's that the trim piece was installed by Ford along the paint separation -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/Gallery/CA.htm

[Wolfe1013]

If anyone has a pair of those vinyl top trim pieces, I need them. Mine were removed and the fasteners, too. Can't even tell where they were. If anyone runs across ANY Mustang with these missing so I can see how they fasten, please send me pics.

The red DYMO label tape near the headlight switch is your In Service date. Can you post a better pic so I can see if it's one of the following formats?

3 28 83
3/28/83
3-28-83

That's my car's in service date.

[mac88chp]

Originally Posted by Wolfe1013

The red DYMO label tape near the headlight switch is your In Service date. Can you post a better pic so I can see if it's one of the following formats?

3 28 83
3/28/83
3-28-83

That's my car's in service date.

I've seen them in all three of those formats over the years so I guess it might have been who was manning the label maker at any given time. Who knows but here's a pic of an '82 label for you that should answer the question for your car:

[Wolfe1013]

Thanks Michael. I believe that was Jon's car. I just want to see all the '82s I can to see if they varied like you say. I actually prefer 03/28/83 and will go with that if I see an '82 different than 3 28 83. But I want it to be authentic so I will go with what evidence shows.

[chp1982]

Yep, just checked and that is a picture of 0513's sticker.

[SSPCHPSTANG3101]

Originally Posted by mac88chp

I've seen them in all three of those formats over the years so I guess it might have been who was manning the label maker at any given time. Who knows but here's a pic of an '82 label for you that should answer the question for your car:

Removed the dash bezel this morning to get a better look at the faded and cracked Dymo tape that still exists on my dash bezel.These numbers are a little hard to read and were identified as 10 3 8 on my 1982 Mustang dash bezel.Unfortunately the last digit and the dymo tape is missing with this group of service date numbers. I would assume the mising number would be the number 3 to make it "10 3 83" for my Service date. Thank you for this information as I completly overlooked this Dymo tape on my dash.Now I just need to find out what my Unit number and E plate number .

[Wolfe1013]

OK, it looks like there's no character between the numbers and the leading zeros were dropped. Michael, I meant I wanted to see if they varied from '82 to '82 like you said they did over the entire run of CHP SSPs.

I'll use the one I made to read " 3 28 83 "

Ironic how long these cars sat up. They were built in June 1982 and put in service from March to October 1983 between these three (mine, this one and Jon's).

I hope your build sheet is there. I need to go to my car's thread and post up my Deluxe Marti Report that I recently purchased. Pretty darn cool.

One other thing I noticed, passenger side siren mount. Someone else had an '82 with passenger side siren...oh, the one Mike in Nashville has. I think that's it. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Is that gray primer all over the black? Sorry if I missed that in one of your posts.