1986 AZ DPS on Mich CL
 

http://detroit.craigslist.org/mcb/cto/4040265676.html

I have been texting with the seller to get better pictures, which I will provide if he comes through. There are 2 other Arizona DPS cars in this batch of VINs with the same DSO number.

Did the AZ DPS cars have autos?

Yes, the 1986 Arizona DSP Mustangs were equipped with automatics. Here is a page for another car in that same DSO, which includes a Marti Report -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info208335.htm


...and it lists the optional automatic transmission. :)

Learn something new everyday....:D

The seller sent me a couple of pics of the VIN label. It has a different DSO number than the other Arizona DPS Mustangs within the same batch of VINs, which are #75-0082. Interesting!

Any pics of the buck tags to confirm it as a DPS car?

I just texted the seller to ask.

I am assuming the cars under both DSOs are equipped the same, since the accessory reserve loads are the same on the door tags. Perhaps the different DSO is only for different paint colors? ...

1FABP26M4GF208325
1FABP26M6GF208326
1FABP26M8GF208327
1FABP26MXGF208328
1FABP26M1GF208329
1FABP26M8GF208330
1FABP26MXGF208331
1FABP26M1GF208332
1FABP26M3GF208333 - DSO 75-0082, 9L Oxford White paint
1FABP26M5GF208334
1FABP26M7GF208335 - DSO 75-0082, 9L Oxford White paint
1FABP26M9GF208336
1FABP26M0GF208337
1FABP26M2GF208338
1FABP26M4GF208339
1FABP26M0GF208340 - DSO 75-0083, 7B Dark Shadow Blue Metallic paint
1FABP26M2GF208341
1FABP26M4GF208342

That group of 18 likely all went to AZ originally. Each has initial registration events in AZ after they would have gone to auction.

I wonder if there was yet another DSO (75-0081?) at the beginning of that group, and the DSOs were split at six each? Or perhaps the majority were white/75-0082 and a few at the end were blue/75-0083?

This is how I think that group of 78 broke down originally:

208295-208317 - Oregon State Police
208318-208324 - Washington State Patrol
208325-208342 - Arizona DPS
208343-208372 - Utah Highway Patrol

Not sure if and if so how it might have worked in AZ but in CA other LE agencies have the ability to "piggyback" orders onto the CHP bids. They have to take the exact specs. of the CHP vehicles with the exception of paint, which they can change with what I believe is an additional cost option. Just throwing out that maybe this is something to think about as a possibility here. :headscratch: