Not mustangs, but this is what it would have looked like when with new mustangs. I have a couple pics of all the white camaros I found also, once I get them scanned I can post them up along with a few pics of all the crowns(just like this photo) if you guys want(not mustangs, but still as interesting as the mustangs, and its history too!)

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/34.jpg

from the info in the pics
E881610 was in bakersfield area in 1996 then moved to sac in 1998
E389112 was in sac in 1996
E881550 was in sac in 1998
E881629 was in hayward in 1996 then moved to sac in 1998
E895400 was in sacramento in 1999 and was decommissioned a couple of months before mine was
E881556 was in sac in 1997 and CHP smogged it
E895393 was in rancho cordova in 1996
E895250 was in ripon in 1997 and sac in 1997

Great info, how did you find that stuff out?

smog reports reported to the BAR you can find them by licence plate or vin number sometimes it works other times it doesnt with the chp cars start with E then prefix for year followed by unit # and theirs your licence plate mine was E895333 the closest one to me in the pics was E895400 it was smogged two months before mine was at the same smog station in 1997 it looks like chp did their own smog because E881556 and E895250 show up being smogged at the chp motor transport

Post and Pre Digital Photography
post digital you take pictures and send them all over the world..... NOW

pre digital you load the 35mm camera take the pictures then take the
roll of film to the drugstore wait a week go back to the drug store
take them home and stick um in a old shoe box in the closet and
forget about um. thank you..thank you..thank you
for getting these out of the shoe box in the closet (or wherever)
scanning them to a digital format so they can be posted and shared by
the members here.....really great stuff Again Thank you!:)

Awesome pics. Thanks for sharing.

Found a couple more.
 

You're welcome guys:thumbsup:
Found some photos of my dads 92 and a basic story of the car.
92 CHP #9042 (wrecked fourth of july 93 or 94, officer was helping a stranded family (car broke down) on the shoulder of a highway, the officer loaded the mustang up with the mom in the pass seat and the 3 children in the back while the dad stayed with their car, another driver fell asleep at the wheel (his parents were asleep too) and drifted onto the shoulder and rear ended the mustang at 70mph as the officer was slowly rolling along waiting to merge, everyone in the mustang was injured and one of the kids was killed along with one of the sleeping drivers parents).
My dad still has this car, just like it sits basically (minus most equipment, trunk decals and pass. door decals). We also have the drivers door skin with decals still applied and the front license plate:D The plate(when I saw the back of the bracket in the car I was like "there no plate on there", turned it over and was wrong lol)
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/35.jpg

And I found a pic (possibly mac88chp's car) of an 88, sorry it is sideways, tried flipping in PB but it messed the photo up. Later I'll upload it again.
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/36.jpg

Few more.
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/37.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/38.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/39.jpg

This photo was given to my dad (so he doesnt own this photo)
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/40.jpg

Sam, that's my car for sure. Telltale water-logged left headlight and distinctive gash on bumper cover under the right headlight confirm it.

http://images110.fotki.com/v615/phot...MG_1267-vi.jpg

http://images116.fotki.com/v710/phot...an05Bvi-vi.jpg

I received this similar one from either Bill Miller or Charles Ricks, can't remember who but if it's from the later then your dad may have taken it also:

http://images35.fotki.com/v1170/phot...HP2000a-vi.jpg

Thanks for posting up that new one! :thumbsup:

Bam! I took in-service shots of #1562 in 1996, it's a Santa Cruz Area unit.

http://images59.fotki.com/v222/photo...3/CHPMT-vi.jpg

http://images18.fotki.com/v457/photo...atAptos-vi.jpg

http://images43.fotki.com/v1329/phot...atAptos-vi.jpg

:2thumbs:

You're welcome:)
If it came from Charles Ricks then my dad most likely took the photo. My dad shared quite a few of the photos he took of the mustangs with him. He was supposed to copy them and send them back, but Charles sold them to Darryl Lindsay who has been selling them along with telling buyers not to copy the photos, my dad has all the negatives though so he could if he wanted to, he could sell them.
My dad may have a couple more photos of your car stashed away somewhere.

That's sad.

Thanks again for sharing these here. Like your Dad, and others, I've been fortunate to take, find, collect, etc photos of these cars and they are posted here, for all to enjoy.

Keep 'em coming.

Yeah that's great....get photos for free....sell them to somebody who sells to somebody...who's probably selling them to somebody who's probably selling them to somebody else. I guess that's the good and the bad of a free enterprise system.

Thanks much, if you find any more of my car I'd be very appreciative.

I did get a chance to look at a large photo album Charles Ricks had at one time and I recall it held a pretty wide variety of photos from all states, provinces, agencies, etc. I understood Ricks had collected them from many sources and was planning to write a book about SSPs, which obviously never came about. As he was leaving the hobby he told me he had sold the photo album to Darryl. If he had a large cache of CHP photos, I never personally viewed them so that's news to me and pretty disappointing to hear about what you say.

Found a couple interior shots (one of which shows a different dual gun rack)of mustangs at MT along with a couple other interesting photos. To be scanned and posted tomorrow.

:D
The interesting one I found that my dad took, looks like they get bored lol.
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/41.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/42.jpg

This car ^^^^ was in this row(posted photo before).
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/43.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/44.jpg

Trunk shot of with equipment removed.
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/45.jpg

Probably same car with the missing trunk equip(had a Uniden 8100 probably so it was reused in a Caprice or Crown)
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/46.jpg

From what I can see, this car ^^^^^ was in this area(photo posted before).
http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/47.jpg

Wow, some of the best documentation I have seen. GREAT GREAT GREAT pictures! Thanks for posting!

Yup! We are very happy to have Sam here. These photos are AMAZING!!!

:) a big plus ten thousand to that statement !!

Thanks guys:D I've learned A LOT about SSPs since I've joined this site and you guys have have been real helpful:) Anymore photos I find I'll post them up;)

I remember seeing photos of this car my dad took of this angle I think. I think he wanted to buy your car also, so he took more photos of it, I think. That's what I remember, but it was a long time ago.

Just curious - why did your dad purchase (or acquire) that vehicle and what is his intentions with it today?

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Also, the one photo in this thread of a decommissioned X-CHP, the one interior shot shows a center windshield mount light, located behind the rear view mirror. Was this a common piece of equipment, or only installed in certain Mustang SSP's?

http://i1104.photobucket.com/albums/...mustangGR2.jpg

My dad bought the wreck for parts, but little was usable. Since he hasn't had any time for his cars really, it has just sat. We are going to preserve the car like it is. After all, it is the sole surviving CHP mustang that was wrecked inservice:) .

The mirror lights were being put into cars in the early 90's. 91 may have been the first year of them in mustangs.

Correct for general use but their first appearance was on the second batch of SMPVs ('89 models):

http://images109.fotki.com/v786/phot...P89SMPV-vi.jpg

These pics bring back memories... I remember working "security" at the state auction when I worked at the local SO in 1999 or 2000 just south of Starke, FL when they were auctioning off a bunch of state vehicles including FHP Mustangs. I wanted to buy one so bad but being a poor Deputy all I could do is watch the luck ones with money walk away with them. We had to watch these guys because they would "disable" the cars they wanted just so everyone would think they didn't run so they could get them for a good price. I just wish I had the money I do now back then....

No way! I can't believe anyone would be so dishonest to do something like that...

:rolleyes:

I had a person, (not a member here), that actually bragged to me about him and a friend disconnecting AC harnesses, or fuel pump harnesses (under the drivers seat) so they could buy the cars cheaper.

Zero integrity with these folks.

Yea, it was pretty pathetic. Especially the taxi cab companies from up north. Those guys were a bunch of clowns....

Hey now... if you had to deal with yellow cars all day long, you'd feel and act like a clown too!:D

Those are fantastic pictures. Thanks for sharing...Wow!! Makes me want a CHP unit now.

So I was looking through my dads collection "destroyed" Cali E plates and I found the plate for #892948. lol

What does the additional exterior decal say that is on the Mustang rear 1/4 panel in the pic you posted above??

Pretty cool, hold onto it. I suspect that unit is still around and was advertised several times on the Reno CL in the past year. I couldn't confirm it as the seller refused to return any my emails....:banginghead:

Its the "safety and Service" decal, just in an unusual spot.

It's the earlier "Safety and Service" motto, now "Safety, Service and Security." On Mustangs it first appeared on some of the '88s (then all the '89s up) and was only applied to that rather unbecoming location on that first year. Same on my car, compare it to the one also on the CV parked next to it:

http://images115.fotki.com/v668/phot...p3035wm-vi.jpg

More familiar motto location used for the '89-up cars:

http://images18.fotki.com/v457/photo...atAptos-vi.jpg

My dad talked to the janitor at the acadamy who bought it from the CHP. He bought it for his kid who propmtly painted it bright blue and hot rodded it. Kinda sad:(
Kids nowadays(at my school) think that the foxes are the worst and slowest mustang model. But look at them on the EVOC track going 140 and making huge clouds of smoke, you couldn't go 140 in a stock 66 2+2 which kids think are fast. I'd choose a fox over a 60's mustang anyday(unless its a 69 SCJ 4spd Mach 1, rode in my dads friends and it was freakin fast!).

Check...the car for sale in Reno was painted blue. Mods looked
like they were limited to bolt-ons.

This thread's not dead yet!
 

COMING SOON!!!!
25+ new photos of CHP mustangs!
:D :D :D :D :D

"New" photos!
 

More!! :D

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/48.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/49.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/50.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/51.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/52.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/53.jpg

http://www.specialservicemustang.net/VINlist/Kid/54.jpg

Nice pics :) ! Pardon my lack of knowledge on the CHPs for a moment. In the 2nd photo just added are those SSPs following repaints (to the various colors that are not b&w). I like that pic.