How's that, Mike?

HAHA! you are welcome.. Someone else owns it, you are right, they didn't get it right, purple len on rear deck! ugh! it's supposed to be blue but that owner might be paranoid by getting stopped by local LEO for having blue plus the lightbar, should be red/blue/white as period correct but.. i wonder why besides blue len isn't permitted in state of FL unless you are a LEO here in FL.

Wrong decklights, headlight flasher, it's a slicktop, long list. It's a nice car, used to be owned by a couple of members here, but it needs a few things.

I believe that CHP Diplomat was the car owned and restored by Jim Post. I recoginize the dual exhaust. And you are right Mike, not very correct....



Jerry
91 X-CHP #8990 (For Sale)
90 X-NCSHP Caprice
77 Nova 9C1
83 Malibu 9C1 (Coming Soon)

I was told that they are correct because i wanted to make sure it's period correct era for early FHP days of late 80s just in case my 89 SSP was a FHP but unconfirmed yet. What equipment was it supposed to have? Jetsonic lightbar that i know of.

Not really even close to being correct.

Check out the FHP Resto section....good info and pictures there (along with the in-service picture section).

Mike,

thank you for clarifying it. I could see big differences between the one i saw and the pictures in restoration pages on your site. Are the Whelen Dashmasters difficult to obtain?

MJ,

They are pretty easy to find.

The FHP SSP was mine and Doug's (FHP0739) before me. It should not have any deck lights as they were not ran on them until around 1990...this car is a 1988. So if your car is a 1989 you more than likely should not have any deck lights. Check for the holes in the rear deck and that should give you your answer...pending it was not used by another agency when retired from the FHP. The one photographed was used by two other agencies after retired by the state.

From two FHP retired Troopers I have spoke with you were allowed to add lights to your car if you wished. So pending the light on the windshield is period correct one might have seen one on a FHP of that era. Each Troop was a little different as one inservice photo shows a red light on the front of a SSP (I believe it is also on a video for True Stories of the Highway Patrol). A retired LT from FHP told me when he was a new Trooper in the mid 80's they were told if they wanted red lights on their car, go join the fire department...so no cars out of their Troop had red lights.

Mark (Current FHP owner.) does have a correct style lightbar for the car as it was included in the deal. I imagine it will eventually be installed to bring it closer to 100%.

The cars could have had decklights, depending on when/where/how long they were in-service for. MJ's car was more than likely NOT an FHP car.

The adding of equipment back then was frowned upon, and this information is from Troopers that I personally worked with, as well as department policy of the time. Obviously, there were variations, and supervisors who allowed it or weren't as strict in enforcing the policy. The pic below is from 1996.