1988 Oregon car with equipment

[litsnsirn]

I particularly like the onglass antenna on the fender, as mentioned above. It really looks like someone had a shuffle around the spares box and started sticking parts on. Is that a Whelen Flatlighter(older strobe visor light) stuck up under the pushbumper so that just the lenses are sticking out below the crossbar? Pretty sure that wouldn't be waterproof.

[GSPI]

A large amount of whacker lights too? I don't recall OSP cars having that many lights in it. Fixable from what I see and a reasonable starting point for a restoration. You might even be able to fund part of the restoration once you sell off all the excess lighting equipment too!

[MOstang]

Personally I don't recall all those "other" items being on it the last time I saw pics of the car...wonder if one of the short time owners of late installed those on it.

[ImEvil1]

That car has always had too many lights in it.

[WSP-SSP]

that is rob canons old car, it came out of this area in tacoma wa.

[28HopUp]

Originally Posted by WSP-SSP

that is rob canons old car, it came out of this area in tacoma wa.

Is Rob the one who picked the numbers for the except license plate by using his date of birth? I remember seeing that at some point in the car's life.

[litsnsirn]

I am going to drift a little, but hopefully I've tied it back in by the end.

I saw this at my hometown's cruise night(emergency and military vehicle night) this evening and it really made me think of this Mustang. This had corner strobes, a Whelen Edge that was way too new, LED's in the top of the windshield, and mounted on the outside top of the roof, pointing to the rear, were the factory LED deck lights from a CVPI, still in their CHMSL housings. You can just see one as a green hump above the rear window. It is a great example of how something cool can go really awry, though, I think, the CUCV is worse off than the SSP.




Then, at the same event, you have Dave Neuman's fabulous 86 Ford, which to me, is just about as perfect as it can get.




Which leads me to my question. When you compare these two, they show up at the same event, and the wrong one is the showier(I guess, I lack a word for this) vehicle. If you had this Oregon SSP and a properly restored one together, the educated enthusiast would know the difference, but how does the casual car show attendee know the difference? I know that a certain amount of our devotion is really for ourselves and maybe there is no way to share that.