Copcarsonline Open House in Largo FL, Sat, Nov 6th
wow i sure enjoyed myself.
http://public.fotki.com/calimustang/2010-open-house/ also 3 new surprise restored additions to the museum, 3 are, 1988 FHP Mustang SSP, 1995 Nevada Highway Patrol Caprice LT1 9C1 and 1995 'the very last' Tx DPS Caprice LT1 9C1. the video of them showing up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKTEOTt3EH4 TX DPS Caprice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgEhgbojzvk Nevada HP Caprice front end only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIoSzZxAf-Q Nevada HP Caprice, whole body turn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4wd0lGJDI 1988 FHP SSP #0739: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNalyRLpChI |
Thanks for posting up all of those pics and videos! :D
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Mark's dad has a nice collection of cars.
couldn't watch any vids as they were loading at snail speed. |
Jim,
try it at non-peak hours, it's a lot quicker, they are a minute worth of video and is worth about 100 to 150 MB size. It was a interesting experience to attend there unlike Silver Spring event where we first met years ago, it was full of classic ford and muscle cars and a handful of sweet SSP's there. As i noticed on cop cars online website, more cars had attended last year than this year. I believe the cold scooted them away this year. |
Nice pictures! Thank you. You want some cold..... come tour Michigan, we need the money. Deer on the move. Drive carefully. 1 in 79 chance of slamming one with your car :)
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Thanks for posting all the pics. Good to see the Alachua County Sherrifs Office car. I remember hearing about that shootout when I went to the police academy in Gainesville in 1997. I never saw the car but talked to some of the deputys that knew about it.
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Yea, also have another P71 involved in shootout, bullets on the display, i counted 8, few of them hit the P71 on duty, it went through the windshield, the oil filter, through the radiator and disabled the patrol car. will take picture of it and post it on there next time.
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Thanks for posting the photo link MJ. I remember seeing that NHP Caprice at Ripon in '09, it was restored out here. I hope that CHP Diplomat isn't part of the collection...so many things wrong about that one it made my head ache!
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MJ - Thanks for sharing the pictures and the links...looked like a fun time there.
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How's that, Mike?
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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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%. |
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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. |
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"finishing details" ........ ?
here they are listed in order of importance: 1. make up crap to put on the sign. 2. check with Dad to see if the made up crap is ok. 3. put the crap sign on the car. 4. display car as marketing tool to help Dad sell more cars. ;) |
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I talked to a Joe Snowden who retired a LT a few years ago and a retired Captain at Indy last year...I do not recall his name. Snowden had three FHP SSP's and gave me the info that it was not until around 1990 that the deck lights started appearing. These are two inservice photos and the one with the airplane is reported to be a 1988. Neither car has the rear deck lights or anniversay decals. http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q..._BTindle_3.jpg http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...P_Jetsonic.jpg I guess it would be possible for them to be added on later, but I doubt an '88 on it's way out the door would get them...but we all know how the government operates so anything is possible. It should also have the anniversay decals on it, but I never installed them. (I was also told any car inservice during the anniversay year had the decals put on.) I had also purchased the correct dash masters but after learning my car probably did not have them originally I was just going to save them. |
Sorry...Doug goes by CHP3705 on this site.
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I never saw any cars running around with the anniversary decals in '90-'91. I think they were on the cars for the year and removed. |
Cool pics Matt...I enjoyed seeing your old FHP at the Indy PCOOA event by the way...too bad won't be seeing again (at least not any time soon). Love that tan interior!
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The pic with the plane I believe was took in '88 the other one I have no idea. |
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I wasn't ripping on you about the condition or correctness of the car my focus was on the "creative writing" concept. just more dealereze to help sell another car. It's what they do. |
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