Possible Ct car, needs decoding
 

Here is a real mystery for you all. Its another one from Madison Auto so I dont know if he has the right conclusion here. Please look and see if you can decifer the codes. Thanks

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1989-...ht_1569wt_1010

I didn't pour over the pictures too closely, but I believe that this is the same car -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...read.php?t=420

I cannot tell if it has spotlight holes.

http://images53.fotki.com/v138/photo.../img023-vi.jpg

The one in the photo is an actual CTSP unit. I've sent over the eBay link to one of the guys in the CT museum to look at to see if he recognizes it.

It has the typical salt cancer.... I really hate that we kill cars up here with salt.

Here is a 1989 Possible Connecticut State Police Car. I have had some Questions regarding this vehicle and if indeed it is a true CT State Police Cruiser. Here are my thoughts. The DSO # 0077 is out of detroit but that number would mean that most likely there were other cars in this DSO order. Every car would have that DSO # but would have individual order numbers to distinguish each car.

Three Possibilites

1) It was ordered through some type of federal program using the detroit 48 code. There was something called team 55 for enforcement of the 55MPH speed limits with federal grants to states to buy equipment including cars and radar.

2) The car may have been a damaged transit unit, sold at a ford auction and then sold as retail

3) A detroit region dealer bid and obtained a CT state bid for the cars and won, thus designating the ordering dealer as a detroit area dealer.

really????

Direct from the CTSP Museum fleet guys:

"Ct. never bought automatic cars."

So it is not a CT State Police car.

Great thanks, I never did trust Madison Auto

For reference, I did let him know what I knew and this was his response:

"Dear g,

I live here in CT and remember having those cars here. My uncle is on with the CT State Police and he confirmed that CT did have those cars. I cannot dispute whether this car was or wasnt, but CT did have black cars. I actually tried checking their backlog inventory. I could only get ahold of mid 90's cars. They think someone threw away the previous years with all the cars and vins listed. My Luck. But thanks for the info.
Mike
- madisonautomotive"

So ok he doesn't really know, just able to speculate on half truths.

Not to defend them, but I suspect that they are only re-telling what they were told. When Chris (SparkSVT) bought it in 2007 he was told it was a CSP car, although he obviously questioned that. The fact that Madison cited possible pedigree issues is probably the result of those concerns being passed along to each buyer since Chris.

It would be nice to learn the info on the Buck Tag, but even that might not solve thee mystery of this car. The lack of credible information, and the abundance of rust make this SSP a goner I'm afraid...

That could be the case. Either way, though, it's still misinformation and made up, and repeating it is almost as bad as making it up yourself. Take the "rubber band Jetsonic theory" over at ORG as an example.

I enjoy reading some of the half-truths from unscrupulous dealers attempting to establish "provenance" (said with my little pinkie finger sticking out from my coffee cup) about these cars. Good for a laugh, but not good for the hobby, or the unsuspecting person who gets had by these guys all in the name of the mighty $$$.