'73 SAAB 96 In CT $500

Not mine etc. http://newlondon.craigslist.org/cto/1714809530.html

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Why does this have to be so far away!!!!!!!!!!!

If that isn't rusted in half, its a great deal.

Powar, is a '73 a V4?

914Driver wrote: Powar, is a '73 a V4?

Yessir.

I used to ice race a '74, wasn't sure about the 73.

Very cool, unfortunately no money/space right now.

These are cars that are really abundant when I am tied up with another project and completely impossible to find when I don't have anything else going on and I'm looking for one.

I'm still holding out for a decent 93B like my grandfather had. I love the 2 strokes.

Carson wrote: I'm still holding out for a decent 93B like my grandfather had. I love the 2 strokes.

There's one for sale in Paducah, KY. It has been relisted on eBay twice, and looks like a very solid start of a project.

See this is what I'm talking about. I don't have the time/space/money for one right now, and of course, there out there. As soon as I do have time/space/money, I'm sure they will all go back into hiding.

One day something will align and I'll get one.

Carson wrote: See this is what I'm talking about. I don't have the time/space/money for one right now, and of course, there out there. As soon as I do have time/space/money, I'm sure they will all go back into hiding. One day something will align and I'll get one.

Same here... although we have a want for a 95.

In reply to Ian F:

Powar was selling his 95 a while back. The green one. I don't know if it sold though.

Carson wrote: In reply to Ian F: Powar was selling his 95 a while back. The green one. I don't know if it sold though.

It didn't, and damn am I glad.

The car didn't sell when I was actively trying to get rid of it, so it became my DD when I decided to play Deer Hunter using my LS400 as the weapon. I drove the 95 for quite a few more months while I saved my pennies and waited for the work to get done on the Lexus. During this time the previous owners' (awesome) floor 'repairs' failed. Apparently, cutting out the lower half of the firewall, the front floor pan and the floor under the gas tank was step one. Step two was to lay fiberglass, plywood, a few license plates (glued) and expanding foam in such a way that it looked stock when covered in undercoating and carpet. The body eventually broke totally in half along the bottom and it has become a parts car. I'll post some pics of the carnage later.

So yes, thank you guys for not buying the car. I would have felt like a dick.

Powar wrote:

Carson wrote: In reply to Ian F: Powar was selling his 95 a while back. The green one. I don't know if it sold though.

It didn't, and damn am I glad. The car didn't sell when I was actively trying to get rid of it, so it became my DD when I decided to play Deer Hunter using my LS400 as the weapon. I drove the 95 for quite a few more months while I saved my pennies and waited for the work to get done on the Lexus. During this time the previous owners' (awesome) floor 'repairs' failed. Apparently, cutting out the lower half of the firewall, the front floor pan and the floor under the gas tank was step one. Step two was to lay fiberglass, plywood, a few license plates (glued) and expanding foam in such a way that it looked stock when covered in undercoating and carpet. The body eventually broke totally in half along the bottom and it has become a parts car. I'll post some pics of the carnage later. So yes, thank you guys for not buying the car. I would have felt like a dick.

Its amazing the lengths people go to to approximate actual repairs, when to do the repair correctly wouldn't have taken much extra effort, and would have been SO much better.

Case in point, I once bought a '69 Newport Convertible on eBay. It was a pretty cool car- 383, 2bbl, highway gears that must have been like 1.5:1 or something crazy- it would top out the 120mph speedo, and still got 19mpg. But the previous owner (or, at least, a previous owner) had "fixed" the rotting subframes (remember, this is a unibody car) with 26 gauge sheetmetal, expanding foam, metal mesh, and black spray paint. (The only reason I mention the paint is because it was likely structural). I was too scared to even put the car on a lift- the tops of the doors nearly touched the door frame while there was a 1/2" gap at the bottoms. I jacked it up at various points until the door jamb gap was reasonably even, and then proceeded to rip out the abortion of a frame repair that had been committed upon the poor MoPar and weld in real plate steel. When I finally set it down again, the door gaps were fine, and the car felt MUCH more solid. I eventually sold the car for about twice what I'd paid for it, and had a good summer's worth of top-down cruising with her in between, so all's well that ends well, I suppose.

Powar wrote:

Carson wrote: I'm still holding out for a decent 93B like my grandfather had. I love the 2 strokes.

There's one for sale in Paducah, KY. It has been relisted on eBay twice, and looks like a very solid start of a project.

This one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170470947667&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

I don't think it sold.

Powar wrote: It didn't, and damn am I glad.

Wow... that makes the soap-embedded brillo pads I found in the rockers of my 1800ES look downright professional.