1982 SS
Hi guys. I am a newbie on the board looking for some help. I currently have an 05, but am looking for something older to play with.
I saw an ad today for an 1982 SS? Does anyone know about them? I keep getting conflicting information. I have been told they never existed, that they were the Special Service (Cop) cars, that they are Canadian GTs, etc...
Here is the ad and a copy of an email I received from the seller:
http://longisland.craigslist.org/car/641464292.html
This Is NOT an Chips car. Chips did not get their cars until production was well under way. They were L hatch backs and sedans with police package equipment. I don't know where you get your information from but the GT was orginally called SS "Super Stallion" The cars got held at the dealers because Ford was sued first by GM then by the Jewish defence league over the name. I was a Ford zone manager during this time and when Ford gave up fighting they changed the name to GT in the field. We were given a change over kit for each car in our Zone. In this kit was a marony lable, two decals. We were instructed to remove the SS emblem off the deck lid and the glove box door and replace them with GT decals. This car is one such car. In Fact it came from a dealer in my old route. It was orginally built as an SS and I started to restore the car to original lost my job and ran out of money. The SS emblems are genunine and I have the ford part numbers and and envelope they came in to prove it. I also have the Part numbers for the Chips package emblems and decals and they are not the same. There is only one Ford History book that I know of in print that mentions the name change. I have various proof as to what I am saying. I have only met a hand full of people from around the globe that remember the law suit and the field change over. I know of one other car that was just sold to a guy in Texas. The previous owners dad was the Dearborn plant manager at the time and was given one of the first 200 off the line. It is black and has only about 20G on the clock. I have photos of the documents if you would liek to see them. The first 200 SS were made week 2 Nov 1981 and week 2 Dec 1981. The next 2000 SS were made week 2 and 3 of Jan 1982 and week 1 and 2 of Februaly 1982 This car was one of the last built. Starting March 1982 the dark red color was introduced prior to that the car only came in Silver and Black. When production started in March a ra raised plastic GT emblem was available for the car and used. The GT decal still listed under decals in Ford parts books. The SS emblem is listed under early 1982 emblems listings. If you read the Original Ford CHIP package content list you will see what the package included and the body used. The orginal 5 hatchbacks were never placeed into Chips service. They were sales demos to spike interest in police package Mustangs. As far as I know there were part of the 20 or so Mustang "SS" demo models Fords had in their posession. These 20 or so cars were job 1 prototypes from the Dearborn pilot plant. This plant builds all cars first to iron out assebly issues before actual production begins around the globe. Those cars were the forunners to the Job 1 SS production which were the ones that had the GT name change over. Being prototypes they should have been destroyed as are the rest of the prototypes as they are just that prototypes and not regular production vehicles. Many don't even have full Vin tags.
What do you guys think? The SS badge in the pictures looks to me like it came off of an 80's Monte Carlo.
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