Bought an 86 SSP!

[ImEvil1]

Congrats on the purchase Chris.

I can take some photos of the '83 DPS car I'm working on...but it'd be good if you can post up some pics, also. The ashtray that mounts below the dash probably would have been removed, but that didn't involve cutting the dash up. I'd bet that the Audiovox deal mounted in the car had nothing to do with DPS.

Tony S. (TxDPS over or .org) or Tom M. (1989 Tx DPS SSP here) can probably help with figuring out your unit number. I'm still working on that for mine (did a title search, but the records that far back have been purged by the state).


There's some good info on the Texas Resto Doc, but it's definitely a work-in-progress. Thanks for posting the link, Matt.

[ChrisL]

Very cool, I'll get in touch with them. It looks like it should be the same SHO-ME's mounted on the rear deck, does that sound right? Any idea what antenna should have been mounted on the trunk deck (pass side)? The hole is still there

[86NeSSP]

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Very cool, I'll get in touch with them. It looks like it should be the same SHO-ME's mounted on the rear deck, does that sound right? Any idea what antenna should have been mounted on the trunk deck (pass side)? The hole is still there

Decible Products DB702



I think Mike has it in the restoration doc as well.

Looks exactly like this as this is the DB702 in black and not the white that was found on the mustangs. there was a mix of black as well.

Matt

[ChrisL]

Awesome, i saw that was listed in the resto doc on the later cars, wasn't sure if it was the same for the earlier stuff. Cool, I'm getting a list together here rather quickly

[86NeSSP]

those antenna bases are hard to find now as they haven't been made in a long time. There might be some one that has an extra one lying around.

Matt

[ImEvil1]

Originally Posted by ChrisL

Very cool, I'll get in touch with them. It looks like it should be the same SHO-ME's mounted on the rear deck, does that sound right? Any idea what antenna should have been mounted on the trunk deck (pass side)? The hole is still there

Good deal. Definitely the Sho-me style halogens for the rear deck. I may have one more white antenna coil here at the house, but I'll have to check. I bought a huge lot of radio stuff on eBay awhile back and had 5 or 6 of those in the box (one NOS one).

[ChrisL]

And while I'm bugging people for information, any ideas on what radio equipment, siren, scanner, radar gun, etc the car needs?

[ImEvil1]

Lots of good info on that stuff in the Texas Doc. GE Mastr radio heads (I have an extra one of those, too), PA 150/200 siren, etc etc.

[ChrisL]

There was a second page! That makes a big difference. Looks like I need to figure out which Radar gun was used, the S-80 looks like it was not used in 86, the gun looks a little different. Might have to work a deal on the radio head as well. I'm lucky that I've got two buddys one a cop and one a sherriff. Both have hooked all of this equipment up before. I'd be lost otherwise!

[ImEvil1]

We're not too far away from you, either, if you get in a jam.