When you title a $100 car.

"Berang" (berang) 11/16/2018 at 16:08 • Filed to: None

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When the clerk said “39.25" I thought she made a mistake. Then I remembered it was a $100 car. They did have to double check with a higher up that the title I handed over was ok, because the odometer verification had been signed by somebody other than me back when the car was originally sold in 2010.

But since I filled in the area for the purchaser, which had been left blank in 2010, and explained that the guy who signed on the line for the odometer reading had passed away and I got the car from his estate, they sorted it out pretty quickly. So the $100 1968 SAAB is now legally mine.

Related news:

Got a moment to pull the sound deadening off the floor. Actually less rust than I expected given the huge quantity of rust chips that were covering the floor. Poked around with a screwdriver, and didn’t find any new holes. The floor on this car is some seriously heavy duty steel.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Berang 11/16/2018 at 16:59

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Apparently Swedish steel was always higher quality than average and had a bit more nickel content which made it more resistant to rust.  And apparently it has to do with the source of iron ore they used:

https://www.badgerandblade.com/forum/threads/whats-so-special-about-swedish-steel.116779/

punkgoose17 > Berang 11/16/2018 at 17:04

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SAAB FTW! I’ve read with the flat floors they would slide over the high snow.

ateamfan42 > Berang 11/19/2018 at 11:40

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Must be nice no to have excise tax. (At least here) that is calculated based on the original MSRP. The rate declines for 6 years, then bottoms out at 0.4% . So it doesn’t matter if you buy the car for $1 or a million, the registration includes an annual tax on the property that is no longer tied to its value.