Saab story... THE RIMS! -oh and the car too.

welcome back. -if you left.

okay, so remember those rims from the old toaster/covert 900T?

well, here is where they ended up/why i purchased them.

here's my next dabble into the topless arena.

she was a '91 900T in that kinda weird color green. NOT the goodgreen used on the legit SPGs. -hey! you can see our old G-WAG there in the garage in our




not-yet-but-so-damn-close-to-being-completed house construction... -but one blog at a time.

i picked this one up from a guy i knew selling/parting out his dealership. we made a deal on this old automatic that he had with (surprise!) a bad tranny.

so, we struck a price ( i wanna say like 2k?...and i wrote him a biz plan) and i went onto saabnet looking for a decent low mileage manual tranny. found one, had it shipped and replaced the old with the new(er). pretty easy swap from manual from auto.

added a set of aero skirts i found also i think on saabnet from a guy out in god's country mid-west. nice guy as i recall though. i think his name was Abe and he took them from his daughter's old rusted out SPG that had been sitting in his barn since she went out Cali, having gotten married -and left her old spent SPG behind.

man, what a PAIN IN THE ASS it was to put those skirts on. i'll NEVER do that again... (until my next one).

anyway, she was a GREAT CAR. but...we just had our second son. and Kells could not/does not -save for the practice time she put in on our 911 ;) drive a standard -and it really didn't make sense to keep her on with like 5 other cars already under our wing. so, rather depressed, i put her on the scalping block known as Ebay -and way she went...

*footnote: sold her to a self-proclaimed Saab FREAK from (gasp) Colorado. he flew out and drove her back. he then called me days later trying to scam me out some dough, claiming that the timing chain had snapped and the car was in the middle of a cornfield somewhere. REALLY? timing chain SNAPPED? -hard to believe on a car with only about 70k original...that i drove every day for about 2 yrs... NEVR heard of a chain snapping on a 900. neither had anyone else. be careful on Ebay...

**ANOTHER footnote to that footnote: found out the story was bogus about six months later when i was contaced by a woman who had just purchased the vehicle and was tracing the history of the car. she bought it. it is still running happily,. she was nce. i sent her any addnl info i had on the car. happy ending. :)

peace,
Joe