WSJ: GM winding down SAAB after talks collapse. What a sad ending to such a funky company. I loved the early, 2-stroke models (they may be coming back) that required a can of oil in the gas tank, I hated the later ones after GM took over. I had two of the latter and they sucked, so I suppose justice has been served, but those old ones! Damn, they were fun. One of them saved the life of a close friend of mine when he attended Williams and drove one into the air, through a telephone pole and ended up flipping, end-over-end, a couple of times. No, I was not driving, in fact I was safely at Boston College at the time. The car to the left looks pretty much like my brother Anthony’s Saab, I think, which met its demise when someone (again, not me!) took apart the transmission and left it in cardboard boxes in our garage. And so it goes.
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It was indeed I who took the transmission apart, in a failed attempt to repair it after it malfunctioned, but it was you, dear brother, who was driving it when that happened.
Ya know, come to think of it ….
we had a saab in the 70′s… long before gm taught them how to sacrifice quality for volume… and it was a piece of junk… the body had great integrity, never a rattle… but the electrical [from windshield wipers to fan motors to window motors] all failed within the first four years; then we gave up. saab will not be missed by us.
odd, It was meeeeee that was driving John’s beautiful classic white truck when the motor siezed up for lack of oil… : (
it’s a club, the “do in your brothers vehicle club….”