I found Valhalla!

"MiniGTI - now with XJ6" (martsjag) 06/30/2020 at 23:24 • Filed to: None

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some 96 shells

Found a SAAB specialist somewhat nearby to take my new 1998 convertible for some maintenance. When we drove up I knew we were at the right place:

Swedish porno

Parts car section was kinda scary and sad

many derelict convertibles

Blue Manual 9-5 Aero wagon. SO MUCH WANT!

Dream DD

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 06/30/2020 at 23:44

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This is a SAAB story I don’t mind. Sad though, to see all those SAABs doomed to the scrap heap, even if for the noble cause of allowing others to live. The 96s are particularly sad.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 06/30/2020 at 23:52

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I nearly bought a red, manual, 01, Aero wagon Like 5 years ago. Sometimes I regret not going for it, but I really didn’t want another FWD car. It had those real hot BBS wheels tho.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 06/30/2020 at 23:58

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Forgot to post this rather sad Sonnet:

but at least clean 99 is clean:

I was sur prised it was the only 99 in the whole place. They must be extremely rare nowadays.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/01/2020 at 00:04

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A few years ago I saw a picture of my father in law’s house from the day he bought it, like 15 years ago. In the front yard there was a yellow Saab like that just sitting. I asked him where the Saab  went and he said he scraped it because it was sitting where the garage needed to be built. That was a real bummer.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/01/2020 at 00:08

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That 99 is sharp! Either it’s been restored or came off the road every winter, if those NY plates are any indication of where it normally lives. They certainly didn’t rust as badly as the Japanese cars of the era, but New York & much of New England weren’t exactly light-handed with the road salt when those were new.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Dead_Elvis, Inc. 07/01/2020 at 00:45

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Here’s the four-door 99 my parents had when I was little, c. 1978. It was old and battered but still loved by the time I remember it. I t didn’t pass PA inspection in about  1986 for rust and my dad sold it and bought the first of many Camrys.

And h ere’s a somewhat rusty one I spotted a couple years ago, the only other 99 I’ve seen IRL in probably 30 years.

pip bip - choose Corrour > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/01/2020 at 01:04

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either that or they have accumulated a lot of wrecks as they have no idea what they’re doing

:P

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 07/01/2020 at 01:28

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Man I love those wheels.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/01/2020 at 01:37

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They’re absolutely lovely. I’ve always found the 99 sedan s more appealing than the hatches, but I’d be happy with either at this point, if I could find one that was neither trashed nor absurdly priced . Southern Vermont was absolutely filthy with them in well into the 1980s , and they’re one of very few cars of the era for which I have much nostalgia.

Have you posted that blue one before? Looks kinda familiar.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > Dead_Elvis, Inc. 07/01/2020 at 01:51

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I’ve posted that pic in comments before yes. I found it in my parents slides from the 70s years ago when I was scanning them. Am I right in thinking the 4-doors must have been somewhat rare? I’ve seen plenty of 2-door pics but almost never a 4.

Incidentally my dad was a pipe-smoking, tweed jacket with leather patches- wearing, SAAB- driving college professor in the 70s and 80s.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 07/01/2020 at 02:05

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I don’t remember the 4-doors being especially rare, but maybe it was a regional thing. 2 vs 4 seemed pretty evenly split in southern VT, at least among the many, many people I knew who had them.

Weren’t buyers issued jackets with elbow patches, or was ownership of such a prerequisite for purchase? ;-)

Taylor Martin > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 07/01/2020 at 05:49

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Such a sleek station wagon man.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Taylor Martin 07/01/2020 at 09:10

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It really is