Pointless SAAB thread

I try to avoid pointless post but I have not driven my saab in moths and I am sad thinking about the future of Saab, so I thought I would post some pictures to cheer me up. Please add some more happy Saab pics.

Pic i took, I think it was either the 06 or 07 Rally New York

I had more, better pics, but computer tanked, and this is all I have left.

Was an awesome car, in the exibition class, but it was goin pretty quick, but it would scream!. You'd think a F1 was coming around the corner... not quite.

Oh, and the mosquito-clearing effect of the blue exaust gasses was nice

I'll play...

My '86 notchback:

My first car, a '78 GL that I later sold with ~340k:

And here's how you can customize a 95+ "shortblock" head for a c900 block without welding (machine & epoxied Aluminum):

snipes wrote:

This is NOT helping me talk myself out of replacing my Turbo Volvo with a Turbo Saab!

Junkyard_Dog wrote: This is NOT helping me talk myself out of replacing my Turbo Volvo with a Turbo Saab!

Yeah, Snipes -- nice Airflow SPG...

i'll share a couple pics...

Not as saab-ish as they used to be, but this is what we have

mtn I like the newgen 9-5

hotrodlarry I want the 99 in the center of the bottom picture.

PER, Show us some pictures of your car.

thought I would throw my GM900 up for good measure.

procaine, I just voted up yer notchback over on the Readers' Rides. I've always liked those things. I was once the Service Mgr. at a racing buddy's indie SAAB shop. We ran a 99 in SCCA ITB, but I can't find a picture of it anywhere.

I don't have any pic of my Wife's new to us 03 9-5 Aero or my 99 9-3, but I am going to look at an 01 Viggen in a couple of hours, I can't wait.

Note to self: snap some pics.

I'll cheat: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/1977-saab-99/

Here's a couple of my lightly modified 95 9kCSE - one doing the fun stuff and one doing the useful stuff.

Our Vintage Class 1963 SAAB in a rare at-speed moment.

S2Fella wrote: Here's a couple of my lightly modified 95 9kCSE - one doing the fun stuff and one doing the useful stuff.

| | this close to wheel dangle...NOICE!!

If Per can cheat, so can I... Garfield: http://classicmotorsports.net/project-cars/1974-saab-99-le/

Also:

My '88 SPG - Stripped and scrapped:

My '01 9-3. Sold to my aunt and has been her DD for a couple of years:

My '87 900S Airflow. Sold, but still on the road:

My '90 900 Turbo Cabriolet. Sold.:

My '69 96 DeLuxe. Still own it:

My winter DD '72 95:

A beautiful 99 Turbo in the lobby of the GM Heritage Museum:

I could go on for days, but that's enough for now.

No Sonetts?

Love that 99 Turbo, though...

snipes - that's my friend Matt's collection down in Massachusetts, pretty sure the 99 is a '74 GL.Him and his Dad have quite a few that they race over the northeast ( ice racing, oval racing, etc)

There is no such thing as a pointless SAAB thread.One of those SAABs is really pointy.

Per Schroeder wrote: I'll cheat: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/project-cars/1977-saab-99/

Wouldn't call it cheating, unless you're talking about getting the magazine to pay for the thing..

I've helped change the water pump in one of those early B engines. My buddy that owned the indie SAAB shop had the factory tool to get the impeller out of/into the block without tearing up the gears. Back then (late `80s) there were still a lot of 99s around here in Atlanta. We had one every couple of months...It would start with a phone call from the owner asking for a quote. It would continue with a call from "Bob's Repair and Used Tires-all makes welcome!" asking how the uuuuhhhh to get the thing out. It would end with the car showing up on the hook in front of the shop.

"..but you quoted $XXX!.."

"Oh, so that was you that called..."

snipes wrote:

IF on it were RWD....

I'm a SAAB guy too.......what I wouldn't do to get my hands on one of these....
C900 enduro

There is no such thing as a pointless SAAB thread. I have yet to own my first SAAB which could be a good thing because I know it'll be a slippery slope after I get that first one.

I'll add some more.

Here's a mid engined 97