Object Details
- Kawasaki Motors Corporation
- Description
- The Kawasaki Motors Corporation produced this KZ900 C-2 Police Model motorcycle in the company’s U.S. plant in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1976. The model was designed in cooperation with Kawasaki, police departments, and the automotive designer and race car driver Dan Gurney. The California Highway Patrol has used different makes of motorcycles. The department purchased Kawasaki motorcycles during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The last CHP Kawasaki debuted in 1999. The California Highway Patrol donated the motorcycle to the Smithsonian Institution for the "America on the Move" exhibit.
- Credit Line
- Gift of California Highway Patrol
- 1976
- used date
- 1976-1990
- ID Number
- 2003.3094.01
- catalog number
- 2003.3094.01
- accession number
- 2003.3094
- Object Name
- motorcycle
- Physical Description
- steel; rubber; fiberglass; plastic; glass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 60 in x 40 in x 82 in; 152.4 cm x 101.6 cm x 208.28 cm
- weight: 584 lb
- used
- United States: California
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Exhibition
- America On The Move
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1340383
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-5fa3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
