1992 Kansas Highway Patrol SSP

[1988Bullitt]

Originally Posted by NoDrama43

Aaron you need to go in business restoring SSP cars. Wich one of mine do you want to work on first????????

I think I am too particular to ever make any money at it, but it would sure be a fun business!

[NoDrama43]

Originally Posted by 1988Bullitt

I think I am too particular to ever make any money at it, but it would sure be a fun business!

I hear you. I stopped counting when I had over 900 hours in the 92 CHP car. I talked to Mike Morrison last week about that car. I wish I had kept it !!

[1988Bullitt]

Thanks to John / xxtrpr for showing me the paperwork and a couple follow-up calls to the Kansas department of revenue. I now have the title history for my Kansas SSP. I have the certificate of origin, original KHP title, disposition of property, and all of the other titles and related paperwork. I also learned that after being a KHP car my car was bought by the Pottawatomie County Sherriff Office and served there from 94 to 2000.

Just to show everyone how small the world is we just hired a new engineer that sits right next to me, he graduated from K-State in 2005 (K-state is the county over from Pott. in Riley county) I asked him jokingly “hey you don’t know anyone one on the Pott. Co. Sheriffs dept do you?” he reply’s yeah one of my good buddies is a deputy. Long story short we spoke with him and I gave him sheriffs’ name off the title and the date range and they are going to see if they can find any pictures of the car. WOW!


Cliff Notes of the Title history:

Certificate of origin 2/19/1992 Larid Noller Ford Topeka, KS
Sold to Kansas Highway Patrol 3/23/1992 Purchase price $12,939
Sold: KHP to Pottawatomie Sheriffs office 1/5/1994 for $7,800 with 45,856 miles Westmoreland, KS
Sold: Pott. Co. to Jared H. 11/9/2000 with 120,104 miles Randolph, KS
Sold: Jared H. to Midwest Mustangs 7/12/2002 151419 miles Lawrence, KS
Sold: (no new title) Midwest Mustangs to Mustangs Plus, 9/26/2007 151,565 miles Kansas City MO
Sold: Mustangs Plus to Michael W. 3/7/2008 151,685 Iola, KS
Sold: Michael W. to Dwane / John Y. 6/14/2008 152,027 Emporia, KS
Sold: John Y. to Aaron Steiner 9/2010

The Kansas Highway Patrol title has #264 written on the top of it, The disposition of property lists the Property number as 10264, agency number as 280. xxtrpr had 5 of the unit numbers, 64, 440, 232, 305, and 92. Right now I am thinking my unit / plate number was 264.

[ssp91ssp]

Aaron, congrats !!!
You have lots of great documented history on the ssp! most would settle for half of what you have come up with ...

[MOstang]

Awesome info...congrats!

[1988Bullitt]

Time to update this thread:

After sanding on the car on and off for a while with a DA I decided I would give larger scale soda blasting a try. I found a local company with an industrial set up and I did my first trial run with them on my fenders, I was so happy with the results I decided to do the entire car.

Here are some pictures of the fenders, soda blasted, washed with soap and water, scuffed with red 3M scotch-brite, washed again with soap and water, wiped with final kleen, etch primed with Nason 491-17, then primed with Nason 421-19

Bare Metal

Etch Primed

Primed fender. The shell (quarters and doors pre-soda blasting)

[1988Bullitt]

Friday 6/10:

Took the KHP shell to get soda blasted this afternoon, it came out excellent but reveled a little more work, the previous owners repaint / prep work really did more harm then good. Now all of that paint is completely removed and all that remains is a few remnants of the factory paint.

Pre-blasting:

[1988Bullitt]

[1988Bullitt]

[1988Bullitt]

6/12:

Spent the morning with a buddy doing some finish sanding and then washing all of the soda out of every nook and cranny. After drying the car out and letting it bake in the sun for a few hours it was time for primer!!!
Clean Bare Metal