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[ImEvil1]

Originally Posted by FoxChassis

That's a cool pic, and an interesting back-story. Thanks for posting Mike!

No prob, Mick. If you get time, could you take a look at the next 4 after this one to see if they are missing records altogether or just not included because they aren't coupes?

[FoxChassis]

I'll try to look through everything later. I happened to do a lot of VIN research that year (compared to every other 'aero year') so I should have a lot of stuff to look through.

[FoxChassis]

HF219534
HF219537
HF219545

All three of them have no records for any body or engine (P40A, P40E, P41A, P41E, P42E, P44A, P44E, or P45E). If those three were actually built as 5.0L coupes that would have made a group of 28 straight P40E VINs. (HF219535 and HF219536 were also 5.0L coupes)

It would be interesting to see if that group of 9, 7, and 7 VINs in the VIN Project, and 219535 and 219536, are GSA/DSO 83-xxxx.

[ImEvil1]

Originally Posted by FoxChassis

HF219534
HF219537
HF219545

All three of them have no records for any body or engine (P40A, P40E, P41A, P41E, P42E, P44A, P44E, or P45E). If those three were actually built as 5.0L coupes that would have made a group of 28 straight P40E VINs. (HF219535 and HF219536 were also 5.0L coupes)

It would be interesting to see if that group of 9, 7, and 7 VINs in the VIN Project, and 219535 and 219536, are GSA/DSO 83-xxxx.

My thoughts exactly. Thanks for looking into it.

[28HopUp]

Originally Posted by FoxChassis

I put some "want ads" out on various craigslists looking for info about SSPs that might still be on the road today. Got a hit on a 1986 FBI unit!

Somebody that knew of the car, who also purportedly is a multi-SSP owner, sent me a pic of the lower left corner of the window sticker and told a previous owner of the car about the ad I put up. The previous owner contacted me and gave me his phone number so I called him and chatted a bit. He sold it a couple of years ago, and still keeps in contact with the current owner. Hopefully I can get some more info on it.

Bill put up a page for the car here: http://www.specialservicemustang.net...info267059.htm

Originally Posted by 28HopUp

I included these VINs in my next batch of 10 Marti Reports, ordered today. Once they come in, then we'll know for sure if they are SSPs or not (unless Mick receives more pictures). If we jumped the gun on calling them SSPs, it will be easy enough to remedy.

Well, the attached Marti Reports confirm that the first and last cars in that block of 32 cars are DSO 83 vehicles, but they are not SSP Mustangs. I modified the page created for this FBI unit to identify it as not being a SSP, and removed the link from the Project (unless we want to ID civilian cars in our project when found). The car that Mick located still has a very interesting story about how it was found. Hopefully, some more cars will turn up through his Craigslist want-ads.

[ImEvil1]

Nice job, Bill.

[FoxChassis]

A couple more in that batch look to be still on the road today...GF267062 in VA and GF267067 in CA. I put out want ads for info from those two. I am going to call the previous owner of the FBI car again this weekend, to see if I can get more info from him and or the current owner.

[28HopUp]

Thanks. I'd like to solicit your opinions. On the list of VINs, would it be OK if we noted these DSO 83 cars as civilian Mustangs ordered by the GSA, yet do not make the VIN a hyperlink to a vehicle page? We did a similar thing on the batch of 1985 CHP Mustangs when we found through Marti Reports that the first two cars were not SSPs.

[FoxChassis]

I think indicating where we have verified that a car is NOT an SSP would be useful information. It's only text.

[ImEvil1]

I agree.