Tonight, a couple of my personal favorite pictures that are always worth revisiting:

Per Steve, "Below is a picture of it (0255), taken on February 21, 1984 at about 1 pm in the afternoon, on a very windy day. The location is in the Los Banos CHP area, on I-5 about 23 miles South of Highway 152. I am the CHP officer in the photo (age 27); this Mustang was my assigned vehicle. It was assigned to me in 1983, early in its career with the CHP. In this photo it has about 60,000 miles. Within a few months it had reached 70,000 miles, which in those days was when CHP took them off the road and sold them at auction. I was then assigned a new 1984 SSP Mustang."

Another angle:

But Wait...
 

Thanks to Steve, another photo from that day in 1984 has been brought to light after all these years. Thank you, Steve for sharing these photos and your memories. Great picture!

Love the pics:2thumbs: :cool:

The State doesn't want to spend any money they don't have to. It is remarkable how little some things have changed. A year or so ago I was driving through the Los Banos area, one of my old haunts. The CHP office there looked the same, front and back, as when I was last there more than 30 years ago.

Fun to see these pics. A CHP Facebook page seems to have many pics showing up that haven't made it around the hobby.

I'm not a Facebook guy, but it has been a great way to connect with retired CHP personnel. Obviously I'm a huge fan of the '82's. With a bit of good timing and asking questions, 9 new photos of '82's have surfaced (quite a few new unit numbers identified), many faces have been recognized and put to names, and stories and first hand accounts of what it was like to drive these cars in-service have been documented. For me, the past few months have been some of the most exciting since I've been in the hobby.

If you are looking for information on the agency your car served with, I would almost guarantee they have a fb page for retirees. You never know, there may be someone in the know about your car.

Back to 1982 CHP Mustangs! Here's a period photo shoot with Officer Jimmy Faria and E870380. This is the first known photo of 0380.

nice....

this ford chases.......

like it.

Hiding in plain sight in Robert A. Wick's 'The California Highway Patrol, Yesterday and Today' is now a third photo of 0360. I have communicated with the photographer, Charles Haacker, and according to him the negatives are long gone.

Per a couple officers in the know:

"It was one of the first one issued and was back in that condition in a short period of time, less than a month. After the prank it was stripped of CHP equipment and auctioned off to a wrecking yard we may have the Engine/transmission for use in another vehicle if needed. If my memory is correct there were 2 of the rolled soon after being issued. There were some things that happened to the early one that we had to fix on later one reinforce the seat back and install micro switches on the clutch to prevent starting in gear and rev limiters, to prevent valve float and over revving."

"I remember that one. The 90 degree turn on Dusty Lane, Empire, New officer to the area. Won't mention any names."

Presenting what remained of 0205 based out of Modesto: