{"id":241,"date":"2016-02-17T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saabworld.org\/?p=241"},"modified":"2016-02-28T22:44:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:44:34","slug":"1982-saab-900-turbo-pickup-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/1982-saab-900-turbo-pickup-in-the-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"1982 Saab 900 Turbo Pickup in The Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This unique Saab 900 Pickup was first registered in the Netherlands in 1989 according to records from the RDW (Netherlands Vehicle Authority). \u00a0Registration details for license plate VG-32-HG show it is classified as a vehicle\u00a0for business use.<\/p>\n<p>These pictures were taken a while ago and it is unknown if this Saab Pickup still exists. \u00a0The owner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saabforum.nl\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=49987\" target=\"_blank\">posted on the Dutch Saab forum<\/a> in 2008 and said there were plans for a restoration in 2009. \u00a0The original conversion from car to pickup was doneby the owner&#8217;s cousin in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The conversion was completed with assistance from Saab Netherlands as well as Saab in Sweden. \u00a0The last known location was Vriezenveen, a small town in the eastern part of the country near the German border.<\/p>\n<p>Picture credit:\u00a0Photos from Keith Long\u2019s collection. Taken in Wehl, the Netherlands on 29th September 1991. \u00a0It was an annual classic car event called \u201cWehl on Wheels\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1982-Saab-900-Pickup-front.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-242\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-242\" src=\"http:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/1982-Saab-900-Pickup-front.jpg\" alt=\"1982 Saab 900 Pickup front\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This unique Saab 900 Pickup was first registered in the Netherlands in 1989 according to records from the RDW (Netherlands Vehicle Authority). \u00a0Registration details for license plate VG-32-HG show it is classified as a vehicle\u00a0for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/1982-saab-900-turbo-pickup-in-the-netherlands\/\" title=\"1982 Saab 900 Turbo Pickup in The Netherlands\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-blog","tag-pickup","model-saab-900","country-netherlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saabworld.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}