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[stadair]

Originally Posted by 28HopUp

Toshi, did you ever notice the following picture posted up in the Motor Transport thread?




Is the gray Mustang the same shade as your repaint? The above car has tinted windows, and no whip antenna on the 1/4 panel.

Looking more closely at this picture, it seems that the belt line is black... That wouldn't be for a '93 car, would it? It would be body color. I'm working on my car again. I should scrap a little spot on the belt line and see what color is underneath the Reef Blue.

[28HopUp]

Originally Posted by stadair

Looking more closely at this picture, it seems that the belt line is black... That wouldn't be for a '93 car, would it? It would be body color. I'm working on my car again. I should scrap a little spot on the belt line and see what color is underneath the Reef Blue.

Toshi, the CHP would have repainted the car either way, so they could have left the beltline black. Let us know what you find on your car's beltline.

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I would like to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to MikeP (aka MOstang) for sending in some scratch via Paypal (see post #345) so I could run another series of Marti Reports. With Mike's help, we ordered four reports on the following 1984 CHP Mustangs:

203911
204040
and
205174
205285


These four reports confirm a known range of VINs for two batches of 1984 CHP Mustangs that all have the same DSO number. Using these four reports and the State of California smog website, we were able to confirm 75 more CHP Mustangs for 1984. Thanks Mike!

[28HopUp]

Using 4 more Marti Reports and confirmed ranges of SSPs, we just added 31 CHP Mustangs from 1991, and 52 from 1992. That leaves 101 more 1992 pages to be created and added over the weekend, and then the CHPs will be done (in terms of using the California smog website to verify SSPs). Once those are added, we will have over 2,800 SSPs in our project.

[28HopUp]

Pictures were provided recently of auction paperwork from 1993 and 1997 for various Texas DPS cars. The individual who posted the pictures agreed to allow our use of these photos for the VIN Project, and we were able to document 37 more Texas DPS Mustangs! Here is an example:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info166864.htm


Similar documentation was provided for a 38th SSP which was already included in our project:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info139187.htm


I do not recall the source of the pictures from this SSP, but it obviously is a known car that either belongs to a member or was listed for sale. I hope it belongs to a member, who will benefit from now having the auction paperwork for his SSP.

[FoxChassis]

I have M3-262 (PF139187) as being listed on ebay in July 2012 in Amarillo, TX. Don't know if that was a member here selling it, or if a member here bought it.

Those auction lists have provided four more previously unknown batches of VINs for me to check at the TX DMV site.

[28HopUp]

Mick, thanks for the info on that 1993 SSP. Your record keeping efforts have come in handy on many occassions.

The other benefit of this auction paperwork is it verified that Texas DPS was the agency on two other SSPs which were confirmed with Marti Reports, but they lacked sufficient proof about where the cars served originally. Cool stuff!

[MOstang]

Originally Posted by 28HopUp

Thanks Mike!

Bill - Glad that I'm able to help...this is a great project!

[28HopUp]

A huge THANK YOU goes out to Tom M. aka "1989 Tx DPS SSP" for sending in his collection of auction paperwork on a large number of Texas DPS Mustangs (plus other makes too). There are over 300 Mustangs listed in the many pages of information. It will take some time to go through and create the new webpages for each SSP, however there are several SSPs already listed in our project that are also included in the auction paperwork from Tom. These SSPs were either: owned/found by members; ones where we ordered Marti Reports; or ones where we pulled Texas DMV info. Below is a list of those cars:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info204955.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info276410.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info276411.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149436.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149437.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149442.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149443.htm
http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info149444.htm


VERY cool stuff. Thanks again, Tom!

[FoxChassis]

In the three consecutive groups with TXDPS in '86 (GF229980-230018, GF231677-231686, and GF231700-231723) it looks like the first two batches (DSO 57-0114 and DSO 57-0112) might have all had manual transmissions and the last batch (DSO 57-0116) might have all had automatic transmissions.

[28HopUp]

As part of Tom's auction information, we found a lone 1985 Mustang that is part of a 10-car consecutive unit number block of VINs:

http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info188603.htm


Note that this car's listed unit number is #F5-231, not #M5-231 (interesting!). All but one of these ten Mustangs show Texas DMV records, so we may be able to verify all ten cars as SSPs by pulling Marti Reports on the first and last ones of the batch.

Originally Posted by FoxChassis

In the three consecutive groups with TXDPS in '86 (GF229980-230018, GF231677-231686, and GF231700-231723) it looks like the first two batches (DSO 57-0114 and DSO 57-0112) might have all had manual transmissions and the last batch (DSO 57-0116) might have all had automatic transmissions.

That's pretty cool info!