1989 CHP EVOC Mustang #5281

Mustang Kid · #1 07-31-2011, 08:42 PM

(This is my dads car not mine, but I will probably own it someday

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My dad bought this car in 2002 from the CHP. It has been parked and covered for about 8 years so EVOC #5281 is still just like how it left the CHP(rollbar, paint, "X's" on the doors, ect.). The car has had 4-5 engine replacements(motor presently in the car has less than 500 miles on it), 5-6 transmission replacements, and 5-6 rear ends due to being ran hard on the track(all EVOC Mustangs have had the running gear replaced at one time or another), although the EVOC cars were highly maintained and maintained better than the rest of the CHP fleet. The interior is still ALL original(other than the exception of seatbelts so my dad could drive the car and so I can ride along), it was repainted once by the CHP, but it is now highly rock chipped in the front and around the rocker panels from being on the track. #5281 was used on the track longer, probably trained more cadets on how to drive the mustangs, and has higher miles(32k) from track use at the acadamy than all the other EVOC Mustangs.

Recently, I helped dig the car out to clean it and get it going again. After moving the parts my dad had behind the car, my dad and I pushed it out of the hole it was in. I have vaccumed and cleaned the interior and have washed and buffed the exterior. Buffing the paint shined it up nice. After trying to get the old gas out of the tank (barely anything in the tank anyway), my dad put some fresh gas in the tank and I hooked up the jump box to the battery in it for power. Amazingly, my dad turned the key and it started right up

! The next day (after airing the tires back up to the correct pressure) we took it for its first drive in 8-9 years(if I can get them uploaded to YouTube I will post the vids).

My dads plan(in the future) with the car is to redo the exterior, do nothing with the interior other than paint the roll bar and add the safety harnesses, and put the e-equipment back in. I will continue adding pics and progress info as work is done.

Here's #5281 in action

The '92 is mid-360 and the 89 is the mustang farther out.

Before getting it out.

More pics to come

MOstang · #2 07-31-2011, 08:48 PM

Very cool info and pics....thanks for sharing.

Mustang Kid · #3 07-31-2011, 08:48 PM

Forgot to add: The CHP replaced the mufflers with strait pipes.

ImEvil1 · #4 07-31-2011, 08:56 PM

Good stuff!

Mustang Kid · #5 07-31-2011, 08:57 PM

Pics of when my dad got it.

My dad with the mustang and a friends ex-CHP caprice.

NoDrama43 · #6 07-31-2011, 10:42 PM

great information. evoc cars are known to be literally beat into the ground but they for sure served a purpose. It is very nice to see original pictures being posted up !!!! thanks....

calimustang · #7 08-01-2011, 01:28 AM

wow that's awesome pics! dang, the last pic.. look at the gas price in the background... sure would love to have that price back again!

28HopUp · #8 08-01-2011, 07:31 AM

Sam, thanks for posting up the pictures of your Dad's EVOC car. Great story!

mac88chp · #9 08-01-2011, 01:52 PM

Thanks for sharing those...great stuff! Here are some photos of the car taken sometime in the '90s at an open house event at the academy. The gent who shot them now also lives in Oregon and owns a '93 ex-CHP Mustang.

Mustang Kid · #10 08-01-2011, 02:46 PM

Thanks guys! More photos to come. Those inservice photos will help with its restoration, thanks. My dad and I would like to find photos taken from the passenger door into the interior to better show how the dash equipment was mounted.