One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Deleted member 26715]

80 years...……….

Owned three never had one on the road, keep looking for another

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Phaeton

A friend of mine has a shell, that's been buried in weeds/grass, in his garden for maybe 10years - well, it's more of a small-holding!

Quite often, I see an orange one ('R' -suffix, plated) in a local car-park, less than 300yards (in a 'straight-line') from my house

 

[Deleted member 26715]

A friend of mine has a shell, that's been buried in weeds/grass, in his garden for maybe 10years - well, it's more of a small-holding!

If you see him ask if he wants to sell, but I'm not after one of those gold plated ones that have diamonds, or at least the owners think they have with the prices they are asking

 

[Ian H]

80 years...………..

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-48930595/goodbye-to-the-beetle

It's rather disingenuous to conflate the current Golf-with-a-funny-body with the old rear-engined Type-1. Mere marketing hype.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

If you see him ask if he wants to sell, but I'm not after one of those gold plated ones that have diamonds, or at least the owners think they have with the prices they are asking

It's supposedly for restoration
From what can be seen of it, it seems in reasonable condition
I know he's restored Beetles before (& Minis)

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It's supposedly for restoration)

My wife's cousin has one that has been sat in dry storage for the past 15 years, it was put in there due to a running issue, they won't sell it to me as they say they don't want to cause any problems within the family if the fix turns out to be expensive. Despite saying I don't care that's a gamble I'm willing to take they still say no.

 

[Chris S]

Give me the Saab anyday

The trouble with Eastern Bloc cars wasn't usually the design, it was the build quality. Come to think of it, you could probably say the same thing about British cars at the time.

 

[biggs682]

The trouble with Eastern Bloc cars wasn't usually the design, it was the build quality. Come to think of it, you could probably say the same thing about British cars at the time.

I served my apprenticeship working at a Lada / Moskovitch dealer in the late 70's so tell me about it

 

[raleighnut]

The trouble with Eastern Bloc cars wasn't usually the design, it was the build quality. Come to think of it, you could probably say the same thing about British cars at the time.

Thing is they both had the DKW (Auto Union/Audi) 3 cylinder 2 stroke engine so it could have been made as quick as the SAAB.

 

[DRM]

I remember last seeing a Wartburg Knight in a campsite in Potsdam, you could hear the thing long before it could be seen, my son summed it quite accurately, as only kids can, Dad why is he driving it when it’s broken, making a noise like that! As it disappeared up the road in a cloud of blue smoke.
There was also a bloke there with an immaculate Zundapp motorcycle too.

 

[booze and cake]

I saw this in Regent's Park Freize sculpture fair today

And back in the real world, a couple of nice Porsche's. An early 70's Carrera.

And this is not as old as it looks. I'd never heard of it, but looked it up and the PS300R seems to be a British equivalent to US company Singer, the PS stands for Paul Stephens. https://www.paul-stephens.com/past-designs They take old designs but have them running modern engines and running gear, so this already lightweight old shell has been stripped down and made even lighter, and has the 3.8 litre engine out of Porsche 993RS put in it. So to coin a phrase my Dad uses, I bet it goes like a stabbed rat, and is great fun, in a kind of terrifying high speed backwards through a hedge kind of way. Not a fan of wheels but love the rest of it.

 

[AuroraSaab]

This is our classic. A Saab 900 T16S, or the Aero model as it is usually known. We bought it very cheaply about 4 years ago with an mot, but it soon became clear it needed a lot of welding doing as it was far rustier than it looked. So doing a few jobs became a major restoration. It's called project creep lol.

We bought a welder and cracked on, but it has been a long process. You can spend weeks just trying to crack a rusty nut. It took months of fettling just to get the new door to hang right. This afternoon we removed the clutch master cylinder and hopefully we are now not too far from getting back on the road.

This is our third c900 turbo and our fifth Saab.

 

[raleighnut]

This is our classic. A Saab 900 T16S, or the Aero model as it is usually known. We bought it very cheaply about 4 years ago with an mot, but it soon became clear it needed a lot of welding doing as it was far rustier than it looked. So doing a few jobs became a major restoration. It's called project creep lol.

We bought a welder and cracked on, but it has been a long process. You can spend weeks just trying to crack a rusty nut. It took months of fettling just to get the new door to hang right. This afternoon we removed the clutch master cylinder and hopefully we are now not too far from getting back on the road.

This is our third c900 turbo and our fifth Saab.
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An old friend of mine has a SAAB specialist garage in Leicester, well he's retired now but his son runs the business

Malcolm was the service manager at the SAAB garage I worked at from 76 to 79 (Status Garages) and I've done bits and pieces for him since he set up on his own following their demise in the early 80s.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc.../11/the-boss&usg=AOvVaw13uj0kt9Ziy9f5j-NWttph

 

[Drago]

This is our classic. A Saab 900 T16S, or the Aero model as it is usually known. We bought it very cheaply about 4 years ago with an mot, but it soon became clear it needed a lot of welding doing as it was far rustier than it looked. So doing a few jobs became a major restoration. It's called project creep lol.

We bought a welder and cracked on, but it has been a long process. You can spend weeks just trying to crack a rusty nut. It took months of fettling just to get the new door to hang right. This afternoon we removed the clutch master cylinder and hopefully we are now not too far from getting back on the road.

This is our third c900 turbo and our fifth Saab.
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My ex wife had one of those when they were current, and then moved into a 9000 Carlson.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

An old friend of mine has a SAAB specialist garage in Leicester, well he's retired now but his son runs the business

Interestingly (or not!) Leicester seems well served for Scandi marque specialists - Sheffield & Meredith Ltd are their equivalent for Volvo.