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First-hand accounts from the people who drove these cars and supervised the officers in them.
The videos and books on this site are built from documents: test reports, specifications, bulletins and photographs. Documents record what a car did on a test track. They rarely record what it was like to start a shift in one, chase someone in it, or be responsible for the officers driving it. That is what this section is for.
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Michael S. Champion
Thirty-one years on the California Highway Patrol. He drove the Mustang SSP on road patrol as an officer and as a sergeant, and retired as a Chief, commanding Inland Division.
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