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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Ooooh Land Rover or SAAB hoi ti toi...it's not that rough..your driving to the pub for lunch on Saturday then Chris and I'm your passenger  ...is the SAAB a convertable?
MIke |
Hoi toi? Hardly. Rare, not expensive.
The Saab is called an "Enduro" - one of 11 built back in 1980 as Saab factory specials. Rather rare, it is one of 5 surviving examples from of the original eleven built. It's my daily driver a the moment, until I replace it at the end of the year with a "normal" Saab road car while the Enduro is taken off the road for a re-builb to new. Hopefully it will be prepared for Targa next year or the year after.
Here's mine (we think, but aren't completely positive yet) - as is was, new, back in 1980 on the floor at the Melbourne Motor Show. No radio. No A/C. No heat. No springs and 17lb of boost as standard. The thing I don't like about badly-kept dirt roads while driving this car are corrugations - they shake the thing apart - especially the 30-year old wiring loom inside the VERY hot engine bay. Brittle wires don't like being rattled too much. If I could, I'd not be driving it around right now - but it's just too much fun, and being a Saab hatch, I can fit a lot of scopes inside - or even a 370L fridge if I choose. Cavernous!