Hello

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Originally Posted by 28HopUp

Welcome to the forum! It's funny to me how more '85 CHP Mustangs keep turning up. Please post pictures of the car when you get the chance. I am curious to know the last 6 numbers of the VIN. I remember seeing pictures of a red '85 CHP car that had been turned into a track star.

okay i bought it ( i overpaid i think, but the drag car parts may be worth it). repainted and has a gt front clip, 331 chp stroker (lol).

according to your the ssp vin registration it is the first 85 chp mustang off the line. will post more pics soon

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info234786.htm





gonna be out trying to drive this thing and give my neighbors an earful. no power steering and a ratchet shifter for a pa c4 transmission.

[28HopUp]

Awesome! That is not the car I thought it might be. Your SSP is the 1st car in the batch of 154 VINs ordered under that DSO in 1985. There was a pilot car ordered ahead of that batch, which the CHP used to check for equipment fitment when the new model-year was introduced. As of yet, that single 1985 SSP is a mystery.

Thanks for posting up the pictures. I updated you car's page already. Have fun, and keep up posted on your progress. Feel free to read up in our technical sections, and ask all the questions you want.

[Mustang Kid]

Welcome!
Thing about the CHP (hate to burst your bubble) is that they took cars at random. They didn't do
it by plate # either. Unless you have documentation that it was the first off the line, you really can't tell.
What is the unit #?

You can also see by looking through the existing cars, you can see that highher unit numbered cars can be ahead of cars with unit numbers closer to the beginning of the 8300 range.
I don't believe we know the start and end of the unit/plate #s, but they range in the 8300 and early 8400 range.

It is neat though that you have one of the first VIN cars

[quitquit]

Originally Posted by Mustang Kid

Welcome!
Thing about the CHP (hate to burst your bubble) is that they took cars at random. They didn't do
it by plate # either. Unless you have documentation that it was the first off the line, you really can't tell.
What is the unit #?

You can also see by looking through the existing cars, you can see that highher unit numbered cars can be ahead of cars with unit numbers closer to the beginning of the 8300 range.
I don't believe we know the start and end of the unit/plate #s, but they range in the 8300 and early 8400 range.

It is neat though that you have one of the first VIN cars

i misunderstood, i guess its the first of a batch of consecutive numbers.

[John10608]

man... you have your work cut out for you !
You're going to have a lot of $$ in that car to restore it back to a stock CHP unit. Plus CHP equipment !

A good project ! It should be fun !
You might recover some of the cost of the car selling race parts.
It looks pretty straight from the picture.
Good save !

[28HopUp]

Bryan, do you have any updates or add'l pictures of your 85 CHP?

[chism]

Welcome! Slick looking 85. Good luck with the restoration and de-racing it. We like pics.