1982 CHP progress and update

[ChrisL]

Fantastic progress! Love to see a CHP be brought back to life! Great work, keep it up.

[Mustang Kid]

The interior looks much better! I am in the proccess of steam cleaning my seats and carpet too.

I have a question though, a few months ago, I noticed several chp items on eBay and spotted your car in the photos. You also had another 82 CHP mustang. What was the deal with that? Didn't know you ha gotten another one.

Car is coming along nicely!

[SSPCHPSTANG3101]

Thanks Chris..

[SSPCHPSTANG3101]

Thanks Sam, Well 2 months ago my cousin and myself took a road trip to Tombstone Arizona to see the the Tombstone town and to see a 1982 Chp "retired" Mustang that was listed on the Sierra Vista Craigslist. Sirra Vista is aproximately 15 to 20 minutes away from the town of Tombstone depending how fast you drive.Well anyway whe got to the house around 730 in the morning to see the car which was behind a fence in their back yard. So I opened the drivers door only to discover the car smelled of urine and was stripped of its original interior Seats, carpet, dash steering column, headliner engine and transmission. The car was a rat and rodent motel in their yard and the smell was discusting. The registered owners had no clue if its unit number which was #0448 displayed under white paint on the drivers door. The original chp siren bracket was hanging on the driver side by one bolt. The owners believed the bracket to be part of the bumper and they got the vibe I was not pleased of the discovery to find rat crap and nesting through out the car like the trunk ,seats under dash etc. I offered them a price of what I was preparred to pay them which was not what they were originally asking for and they accepted it. I brought the car home back to California which really was not flying with the wife. I stripped everything out of the car and cleaned it in effort to make it more appealing on the side of my house of urine. So my wife asks me, what are you going to do with this car? I had no answer other than tell her I would be using the car for a parts exchange car. I swapped both of the factory doors, fenders and hood from a donor car I bought for my restoration.I listed the car on ebay with the car selling on the second listing. The winner of the Auction had no intentions of restoring it back to its original service condition and had plans of modding it. Now if he told me he was going to to restore it back to its original condition I probably would have given him the original doors.

[chp1982]

Nice progress. Poor #0448. That interior looked disgusting.

[MOstang]

Way to go on the progress with your 82.

[SSPCHPSTANG3101]

Yes poor 0448, the cost of restoring that car would have equaled alot of $$$$ and yes the interior was disgusting. The rat nesting could have been prevented years ago had the owner covered the shifter hole.That was the rodents door way into their cozzy cottage.