Haha the Saab story reminds me of servicing Audis. When we finished reinstalling the stupid plastic debris covers underneath the engine I would always say "it's Audee-here!"
I remember when I was a kid in the 1980's, someone said Volvos and Saabs were made from the finest steel in the world...supposedly from scrapped WWII German Panzers and retired Soviet Tanks...not sure how valid that rumor was!
Mig Esq i have had a saab, but it was though as hell, it always started right up, even in the coldest conditions. It was crazy! Well, i was doing crazy drifts etc. With it lol
So have I at broke down, only got to drive to work with it once after 2 weeks of repairs and constant failures I junked it. Which repairs I personally did myself and I do work on cars professionally.
1st car has been well and truely picked clean of parts and like most 70's cars has rusted on the rear wheel arch and on the bit just behind the door rear towwards the boot, 2nd car been rear ended shame as its in great shape other then that, 3rd car the front half of a pick up, wonder if the next one wil be the bed or is that was cut off to save another or to be used for another project, 4th car wow now that is sad, an old saab with a good few trim and other parts in it, those are becomming rare sights on the roads now older saabs, 5th car that's been sitting for a long time, and shows it by the rust on it,
I had a 1979 Dodge D-250 with the 318-V8 and the five speed manual, it ran fine forever but I actually used my trucks for hauling (especially firewood), rocks, gravel, you name it and I probably hauled it in that truck so the bed was a bit on the rough side after a few years. Just don't get the slant 6 -- my father had a Dodge D-100 (with the automatic transmission although that survived just fine) with a slant 6, at 80K it already needed a ring job and he didn't abuse it like I did mine. When I bought my replacement truck in 1985 it was also a Dodge D-250 and I made sure it had the V8 in it. That Dodge survived 20 years of my abuse (the 1979 would have ran a few more years but I got talked into buying a new truck). Here is inflation for you, the 1979 truck cost about $7K whereas the 1985 truck cost $12K (the 1985 did have the automatic transmission in it, that was about $400 IIRC). My father's 1980 D-100 was $5,000 but that doesn't compare directly to what I owned.
Well freezers are mostly steel.... and it has to be run through a shredder anyway to remove everything that's not steel (as well as separating ferrous from non ferrous) so I few vines and sticks won't hurt anything.
When those Saabs used to be pretty common I used to think they were the ugliest cars on the road. Nowadays there are many others contending for that title.
Am from Sweden and my parents had a Saab like that . Very mush rust . The motor and transmission was ok all years . Some Swedish hot-rod people use the Saab transmission and put it in old American cars because they say it`s the best transmission for all fast cars . I don't know ?
I have to see the Rat of judgement now. He crushed a Saab 900 And a mid 1970's Dodge truck and colonnade Buick Regal. Wasn't to happy about the Toyota tercel being crushed either. Had a friend who had one the generation and color.
It had obvious body damage from collisions (more than one...) looks like the type of car that a college student probably owned (either second hand or as a hand-me-down from mom and dad). I can almost guarantee that if it had been on the road in 2016, it would have been sporting a Bernie sticker 🤣
I'd like to see vehicles that police seize from criminals meet this fate after having their engines seized up like those of the "Cash For Clunkers" vehicles. This should especially be done to vehicles used in such crimes as drive-by shootings or kidnap murders! Members of the victims family should be the ones to jerk the lever that activates the car crusher. It would offer closure to members of the victims family. Currently, such vehicles are impounded until they can be sold at auctions, and that requires storage space in impound lots. That comes out of our tax dollars. Also, they have to pay people to watch over them. Destroying vehicles used in violent crimes would also free up space in impound lots to impound vehicles belonging to persons who have had their driver's licenses suspended. If a person has had their license suspended, we should impound all vehicle in his possession, and charge him for storage! That would make it more difficult for suspended drivers to get behind the wheel, and drive illegally!
