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[FHP813]

Nice job Bill! Thanks for all of your hard work. I'm sure everybody appreciates it especially the FHP and CHP guys.

[28HopUp]

Thank Bernie!

Jim, your care-package arrived safely in the mail. There are A LOT of pages to be organized and scanned. It is going to take weeks for me to get all of this done.

To give you all a taste, there is a CHP document for the 1989 Mustangs which lists the unit numbers and VINs. The interesting part is that it identifies a stand-alone VIN, followed by the group of cars ordered consecutively (but the VINs are jumbled because they are listed by Unit Number). We know that the CHP would typically order a single Mustang to check that the equipment upfitting would work in the new model-year car. With this paperwork provided by Jim Young, we now know that the single 1989 SSP initially checked by the CHP was:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info201827.htm


How cool is that?

[NoDrama43]

Bill I have a bunch of information for the "pilot" cars for numerous years, including the original paperwork signed by CHP admin, inspectors from fleet and acknowledments from Ford execs. etc. If you need it, plus some warrantly issues, additional orders for hundreds of sets of floormats, changes to original orders for several different years, speedo warranty/testing communications and so on.

[28HopUp]

Jim, if any of it can be tied to specific VINs, then yes it would be good to include that information in our project. If the documentation is more CHP-specific rather than being tied to certain cars, then perhaps that would be better placed in the CHP Restoration Pages.

Let's talk soon...

[28HopUp]

Using some of the information provided by Jim Young, I was able to update the 1989 VIN page (confirmed CHPs starting at 211169) and the 1990 VIN page (confirmed CHPs starting at 170115).

Before getting anyone's hopes up (thinking of you Bobby), not all of the VINs were included in the documentation. The 1990 SSPs in particular had quite of few VINs missing from the paperwork. But it is certainly ALOT more than we had previously! So the 1989 and 1990 CHP Mustangs are completed in terms of the paperwork from Jim. The 1987 CHP cars are next on my list, but that documentation is more difficult to organize so those pages will take longer create. Once the CHP cars are done, I will then work on the FHP cars.

[28HopUp]

Here is a link to the first car in the batch of 170 consecutive unit numbers for 1987 -

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info184712.htm


According to the paperwork, the CHP later placed an order for five more 1987 SSPs with a VIN range of 229944 - 229948. There is CHP/Ford documentation for all 1987 CHP Mustangs from these two VIN ranges. It is just going to take some time to create the pages for these cars.

[28HopUp]

All of the CHP cars are now added, and the following FHP cars have been added/updated:

1989 - 211945
1989 - 225714
1990 - 161408
1991 - 141357
1991 - 141360
1991 - 141370
1991 - 141378
1991 - 183595
1991 - 183602
1991 - 183605
1991 - 183617
1991 - 183626


There are 35 more 1992 FHPs, and 51 more 1993 FHPs to be added. On these two years, many of the VINs listed also include the FHP unit number! Stay tuned...