1989 Ford Mustang SSP CHiP Pursuit

That is a 1986 Mustang LX, it has the quad headlights in the front, the HP was 200 in 1986 with only 270 lb ft of torque, it was carbureted as Ford had not yet put fuel injection in the Mustang on the 5.0, the 1985 model year had 210 HP so 10 HP was lost in the 1986 model year. When Ford added the fuel injection the HP jumped to 225 with 300 lb ft of torque in the 1987 model year. 

1987 and newer all had fuel injection and they had the single headlight on each side. 

Awesome model & info guys, thanks!  😎 😎 

@john3976 It's not supposed to be an LX. The SSPs were produced from 1982 to 1993.

I recall seeing them on patrol for a while. Now, it seems everyone has gone to the Charger.

@rich-sufficool Rich, all the Mustang patrol cars were LX's even the trunk on your copy has LX on it, Ford added a police package to them. My old department the Florida Highway Patrol used the same Mustangs. Look at your diecast and you see the air cleaner on a carburetor, the fuel injected engines have the "L" shaped intake manifold on them. FHP Mustangs were also carbureted until the 1987 model year as well when Ford changed over to fuel injection.

Here is a photo with the hood open showing the fuel injected engines. 

1989 was the 25th anniversary of the Mustang and we bought a GT convertible. The car was to be my wife's so the salesman assumed she would want an automatic...he was soon set straight that was not the case when she said a car like this should have a manual shift. We kept the car 21 tears and ended up selling it to a friend's son who had been wanting to buy it for years. He promised he would take good care of it...two years later he came back in town and the car looked like it had been in the demolishing derby which made me sick.

Maybe we're talking about the same thing, SSP was a package of both upgrades and deletions for weight.