no reply from him as of yet, what does this DSO code breakdown to ?

The 58 decodes as "Twin Cities". The rest of the number, 0146, is the ORDER number, ie. the 146th order for the year. There's nothing to break down from that number, despite the misinformation posted elsewhere.

Here's the Ford documentation for the info above:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/DSO.html

thanks i have located the buck tags, reads as follows

DSO 58-0146
GELCO
DRILL DASH PANEL
GELCO POLICE UNIT


does any of this confirm that this was a CONN state police unit

I think Conn State cars were leased through General Electric Corp (GELCO) and check out this thread by Bill Wood, he answers alot of questions about CSP cars.



http://www.sspmustang.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9376

This older post references Gelco as a Conn State car

http://www.sspmustang.org/forums/sho...highlight=conn

THIS CAR IS FROM CONN. THE BUCK TAG STATES (1ST. LINE)D.S.O.-58-0146 (2ND. LINE) GELCO (3RD.LINE) DRILL DASH PANEL (4TH. LINE) GELCO POLICE UNIT THIS CAR HAS "NO" ENGINE, TRANS, COMPUTER! ORIGINAL 5 SPEED CAR. CAR HAS A CLEAN CAR FAX,AND CLEAR TITLE. ASKING $2000.00 EMAIL ME FOR MORE DETAILS AND PICTURES @JMTADEY@SBCGLOBAL.NET

It sounds like you may have found a rare CSP car...

"three or four of the twenty-three 1987 cars survive today" from post by Bill Wood.

Good Luck with the purchase.

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Nice. +1 on what Jack said. Also, don't get confused by the first thread Jack linked to; the hatchback car Bill has/had was NOT an SSP.

thank you for your help, the car needs alot of work, if i can close the sale i will need alot of directions from many of the members here for parts and advise... do you think GE leasing keeps records of contracts from that long ago. ?

No prob...that's what we're here for.

There's a phone number on the fleet website. Definitely couldn't hurt to call and ask.

Good luck...sound pretty cool. :2thumbs: