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Originally Posted by kapracing
Take a look at some of the basket case shelbys and fastbacks that have been restored...
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Exactly! I remember going through junk yards and seeing plenty of 6-cylinder fastbacks rotting away because nobody thought they had any value. With the proliferation of aftermarket replacement parts, these cars are now being restored/restofied (more commonly the latter, where it's being hot rodded up or cloned into something else).
Will this happen with SSPs? Perhaps. The aftermarket following is fairly good presently, and the desirability of 5.0L Fox Mustangs will always be there. SSPs that are presently "un-restorable" for economic reasons may at some point be given another life through a comprehensive restoration. But those costs will be high, and a restored car (versus a low mileage original SSP) will be more desirable if its in-service history can be documented/traced. Police records will not get any easier to find 10+ years from now, and the officers who remember these cars will be long-retired by then. It's their in-service history that makes SSP's so unique in the car hobby, so documenting a vehicle's usage will be more important (and difficult) as time goes on.