Kawasaki KZ900 C-2 Police Model Motorcycle
date: label: date made
content: 1976
label: used date
content: 1976-1990
name: label: maker
content: Kawasaki Motors Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: used
content: United States: California
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
label: See more items in
content: America on the Move
label: See more items in
content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of California Highway Patrol
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.3094.01
label: catalog number
content: 2003.3094.01
label: accession number
content: 2003.3094
objectType: label: Object Name
content: motorcycle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel; rubber; fiberglass; plastic; glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 60 in x 40 in x 82 in; 152.4 cm x 101.6 cm x 208.28 cm
label: Measurements
content: weight: 584 lb