Eleven days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge was appointed as the first Director of the Office of Homeland Security in the White House. The office oversaw and coordinated a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard the country against terrorism and respond to any future attacks.
With the passage of the Homeland Security Act by Congress in November 2002, the Department of Homeland Security formally came into being as a stand-alone, Cabinet-level department to further coordinate and unify national homeland security efforts, opening its doors on March 1, 2003.
This 1992 Ford Bronco features a 5.0L V8 with a four-speed automatic transmission and the quad shock front suspension option. It is allegedly a former Homeland Security Investigations surveillance vehicle that was specially modified by the agency with heavily tinted rear windows, a rear partition, a fixed swivel chair, desks, power outlets, and built-in lighting. It was supposedly assigned to do work in Texas.
I question whether this vehicle belonged to Homeland Security, but I do believe it was a surveillance vehicle for a law enforcement agency somewhere.
This generation of Ford Bronco has never been the most desirable member of the Bronco family, partly due to the fact that O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings used a white 1993 Ford Bronco to flee police, creating a media circus that is still the most famous police chase in history and one of the defining moments of the 1990s.
