Big News! 1982 SSP Research

[28HopUp]

Thanks guys! What is amazing to me is the accidental events leading up to this discovery about the six SSPs being cancelled. Everyone believed that 213437 (the 400th car in the batch of VINs) was the last SSP built that year. Ordering the reports on the first and last cars in that batch was a last minute decision which led up to the discovery. So we are VERY fortunate indeed to have this relationship established with Kevin Marti. His time does not come freely, but the moderate expense has paid off immensely!

[chp1982]

Thanks for your hard work and dedication to the VIN Project, Bill. That's big news!

[EXNODRAMANOTCH]

I consider the $5.00 per car that I spent with Kevin Marti to have him match the factory color to the VIN for the 20 MN State Patrol SSPs (and verify the MN DSO) as money well spent for the common cause.

[28HopUp]

Bob, I agree with you that the time/money spent with Kevin Marti is well worth it.

I have also learned through this effort that everything is not black & white in terms of documentation. We have seen official CHP paperwork touting X number of Mustangs on one hand, yet other paperwork indicating a different number of cars. Although I would love to be able to say with 100% certainty that a given number of SSPs were actually built that first year, we just are not to that point (yet).

[it's still fun to try though!]

[28HopUp]

Our SSP History Page and the SSP FAQs Page have both been updated with the new information we learned about the 1982 SSPs.