Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Who’s got the oldest original-owner Saab?

November 18, 2011 10:03 Line

By: Swade

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I talked to a wonderful elderly lady here in Australia earlier today and the conversation got me thinking. She has a 1975 Saab 99GL CombiCoupe that she picked up brand new in Gothenburg before eventually bringing the car here to …
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Djup Strupe on the Saab 9-1 that wasn’t

November 14, 2011 10:13 Line

By: Swade

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Fridays are never as good as Mondays for people seeing stuff, and this is one that I figured people might find particularly interesting, hence the re-post. —— Who knew that yesterday – 11/11/11 – was going to be dubbed “Nigel …
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How did you end up buying your first Saab, Pierre?

November 14, 2011 0:29 Line

By: Swade

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This submission is a response to me sharing my story as to how I acquired my first Saab. It comes from Pierre B, who is not only a guy I consider to be a good friend, but is also the …
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A Saab goes to 11, three times, on “Tufnel Day”

November 13, 2011 0:24 Line

By: Swade

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Just when you thought the numeric stories for Nigel Tufnel Day were over, another one pops up. This one is courtesy of the Saab Turbo Club of Sweden. One of the members at the STCS forum noted a wonderful coincidence …
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Inside Saab on Google+

November 10, 2011 23:23 Line

By: Swade

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Have you tried out Google+ yet? If so, then please feel free to add Inside Saab to your circles and get updates as to content and the occasional non-website thought. Like everyone else, we’ve just started on Google+ so there’s …
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How did you end up buying your first Saab?

November 9, 2011 16:16 Line

By: Swade

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Something to pass the time…… A story from earlier in the week prompted a few Saab purchase stories from the pre-internet days. Forgetting the internet for a moment, it’s always interesting to hear how people first get into Saabs. I …
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The autoextremist on winners in the car industry

November 9, 2011 2:56 Line

By: Swade

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I’m a regular reader of many automotive columnists and this week’s Rants entry from the AutoExtremist caught my eye. The article is actually about Toyota and the troubles they’ve suffered in the last few years – some of which were …
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Waiting…..

November 8, 2011 12:31 Line

By: Swade

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I apologise if the lack of writing here today has been a cause for concern. Simply put, there was nothing I could say. I had my own thoughts, of course, but they were best left unpublished, especially on an official …
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Custom Saab: Saab 9000 Transporter

November 4, 2011 14:49 Line

By: Swade

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The observant ones amongst you would have noticed a rather unusual looking Saab 9000 in some recent photos from the dealership tour in Germany. Here’s one of them. And what’s that there in the back? A yellow Saab 9000? A …
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Video: Making a Saab 100K Mosaic

November 4, 2011 10:50 Line

By: Swade

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Got your Saab 100K mosaic yet? It was hard work printing, then pasting all those photos on to the paper, color matching them, etc. Paper cuts galore! But we got there eventually Here’s a time-lapse: —— Thanks again for submitting …
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