The last 1969 CHP Suburban known to exist FINALLY makes its way home!
After finding and rescuing this unique CHP icon, we got a chance to bring it back to where it all started, CHP Fleet Command!
We had a crazy visit with California Highway Patrol! Finding out how into cars everyone was, driving around in the Unit and possibly getting some rare parts!
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The fender badge says C20, but 4×4âs are K models (K20 would be correct).
10âa are 1/2 ton, 20âs are 3/4, and 30 are 1 ton.
Great show! Love that 'Burb!
if you need a CHP 870 go on to gun broker. they have them from time to time. right now there is one listed!!!!
Thatâs really cool I think blues brothers would even like that vehicle
Not an old vehicle story, but a few days ago I was driving on the TransCanada Highway in Nova Scotia and I see a blacked out Ford Explorer with a light bar behind the front windshield and a Chevrolet Tahoe. Also blacked out. I thought it was the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but no. It was just some everyday people. The wheels were not even steel.
Excellent seeing that thing get a new lease on life! If you need any assistance on equipment history, feel free to hit me up. We've got the largest collection of CHP vehicles aside from the highway patrol themselves
Looks like the cheifs wearing the seat cover of a 1976 suburban lol
I once met a CHP commissioner on a movie set in British Columbia his name was maury Hannigan and he was doing a cameo for wrongfully accused, he was very intrigued by the fact that California 99 and 97 run all the way up into Canada
Commish still rocking a swivel holster!!
I miss those CHP Inspection stickers!
As a kid I remember the CHP would post up on a street and pull cars in to check Lights, Turn Signals, Tires and Registration.
When you passed inspection, you'd get the sticker placed in the lower corner of the windshield on the drivers side.
Now the Inspections are only done for Commercial Vehicles and the sticker is placed in the lower corner of the windshield on the passenger side.
If you want to mount a shotgun in the unit get an airsoft 870 would work for you. It would have an orange tip. Just a thought
Wow that is cool as you found that old guy there.
I thought all those old suburbans were long gone
The CHP is the largest STATE law enforcement agency in the country.
But they are not the second, third, or even 4th largest law enforcement agency in the county.
NYPD is the largest with 33k officers
Chicago has 12k
LA County Sheriff has about 10k
LAPD has 9k
CHP has about 5500 sworn members.
There are other departments with more sworn members than the CHP.
CHP just happens to be the largest state agency in the country.
They should let CHP use it as a parade unit.
Dude in the Black shirt went back to the 60's with that hairstyle.
Should have gotten those unity spotlight handles out of the scrap bins ,those are the better old school ones & can rebuild them
Cool that you scored some time period & old school parts from them ,its getting harder to find time period parts ,i got a extensive time period parts collection of NYPD lights,full lightbars ,sirens,brackets & mounts as well as the radio equipment from the 80's- 90's as well as lights from the 50's thru early 2000's, alot of the film production & movie car facilities buy ,rent or sometimes borrow lights or equipment from me ,chances if you seen a old police car đ in a flick or TV show, it might be my lights on it
CHP got a awesome upfitting & repair facility, very well organized
Bet the people on GM's "9C1 " police & speciality vehicles would probably like your driveway find
At first I was thinking âhow the hell am I gonna sit through a 31 minute video of a old suburban?â Then when they were saying their salutations, Iâm like âNoooooo! That canât be it!â As an old lightbar collector, I enjoyed the equipment in the shop. Great video!
The guy with the cool hair and sideburns looks like Luke Perry
Ken Roberts worked 335 for a second, wow.
You might want to consider taking care of the remaining amount of rust
Keep driving on a public road with the red beacon flashing and you will get pulled over by a real CHP officer with no sense of humor! Awesome rig guys!
Canât wait for you guys to fully restore this and let chp take it out for some official stops đ
Should buy a beautiful Remington replica and put that in the holder đ«Ą besides that beautiful build congrats guys The fact the unit made it through the skid pad and drove home even more dope!
hey would you ever sell the CHP Suburban?
First time on your channel this is freaking awesome!!! As I said first time here so the question may have been asked. Are there any pictures from the old CHP magazine? I don't know when the magazine was started or if it still exist but it would be great if there was a copy with this in it.
Great video. Was smiling the whole time. MLTW!
Too cool!
Beautiful job!!
Thats not CARB compliant!
I got a 1980 ranger f250
I bet you can get a special written letter for the permission of keeping it preserved and not covering it up.
Chp props to y'all guys
just stumbled across this video and what fun!!! watching people geek out about their passions is just fun to watch! What a great engaging video! 30 minutes well spent!
Long rifles started showing up in California cop cars shortly after the North Hollywood shootout. (1997)
That was great access to the department.