probably the world's fastest Saab...1964 Saab Model 96

Found on http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=51567&page=272

http://s7.photobucket.com/user/DCarr511/media/Speed%20Week%202008/PICT0038.jpg.html

he got his mom her dream car... not an expensive one, just one that meant so much to her... coolest thing you'll see today

did you hear the Saab museum went bankrupt and sold all it's cars? I just learned

photos by K. Long, who visited the museum in 1997. Find his excellent Flickr gallery at http://www.flickr.com/photos/24041160@N02/sets/72157604894593002/with/5300941776/ found on http://bringatrailer.com/2012/01/16/breaking-story-120-car-saab-factory-museum-bankruptcy-sell-off/ via http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/2012/01/ufa-5/

vintage rally Saab 96

Tells the story of a 1961 SAAB 96 that the chairman of the U.S. SAAB collectors club, Bruce Turk, restored and then turned into a rally car.

found on http://flaviogomes.warmup.com.br/

Saab Sonnett at last months Encinitas car cruise

SAAB filed for bankruptcy last week... brought low by GM's bankruptcy and pathetic management, who've blocked its sale to Chinese companies in fear that Chinese would get GM technology and processes. Like that hasn't happened already

Saab CEO Victor Muller said "the last nail in the coffin" was previous owner General Motors Co.'s rejection of a Chinese company's attempts to gain control of the ailing Swedish brand.
Volvo Cars, Sweden's other car maker, is presently ramping up production after China's Geely Holding Group bought it from Ford Motor Co. last year.


Muller, a Dutch entrepreneur, used his luxury sports car maker Spyker Cars to buy Saab from GM in 2010 for $74 million in cash plus $326 million worth of preferred shares. He vowed to gradually increase production while restoring Saab's Swedish identity — which critics said was diluted under GM ownership. But the company ran out of money just a year later.

As production stopped and salary payments were delayed, Muller fended off bankruptcy by selling Saab's real estate and lining up financing deals with investors in Russia and China. He bought time by placing the company in a reconstruction process under bankruptcy protection.

But the deals fell through, blocked by regulators or by GM, which was concerned that its technology would end up in the hands of Chinese competitors.

GM spokesman Jim Cain told The Associated Press Saturday that each new proposal "results either directly or indirectly in the transfer of control and, or ownership of the company in a manner that would be detrimental to GM and its shareholders."http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/45720823/ns/today-today_news/t/saab-declares-bankruptcy-gm-blocks-chinese-deal/

this is what happens when a company loses control of it's ownership and the whims of takeover corporations dictate its fate. Stay independant my friends, either be your own master, or work for someone else, but don't let them own you.

A couple more unusual SAAB rv's

From http://voiture-jaune.tumblr.com

slammedsixty.blogspot.com is finding some cool unusual stuff out there!

Above is a custom hot rodded '46 Crosley and below are SAAB rv's.

check out the variety of cool stuff with a heavy emphasis on VW's and Kombis mostly at http://slammedsixty.blogspot.com/

SAAB station wagon

Found near the LaJolla Motor Car Classic... I've never seen one before... and that is about all it takes somedays to get me interested.

Daytona Florida's annual Turkey Run, hot rod show

You and I must love the same sort of unusual stuff, and hot rods, and race stuff... or we wouldn't both look at the stuff I have here, right?

Well, you will enjoy his writing more, and his photos just as much, and for a great description by one who's been there, let me turn you over to John at http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/2008/08/eye-candy-at-turkey-rod-run.html

Cool light green, wonder what it started as? Early 50 shoebox Ford? I was close! It's a 49 Aussie Ford Ute... Thanks to Dan for knowing right where to get the story... in Mike Kelly’s Cruise News, author Ken Caskey of Kidd Darrin’s Restorations & Custom Built Cars in Melbourne, Florida spotlighted the Ford Ute. http://www.cruisenewsonline.com/49FordUteAustralianUtility/49FordUteAustralianUtilityFeature.html
Hot rodded Chrysler Airflow or Airstream!
Ummm, Opel? Alfa? Nope... Dan got this one too! First the Ute then this one! Man's on a roll... this is a Saab 96... for a photo of a stock one to compare it with http://www.saabhistory.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/saab_96_rac_front.jpg
http://www.turkeyrun.com/turkeyrun/Turkey_Run_Home.html

With thanks and appreciation for http://oleragtop.blogspot.com/

You can also see a gallery here: http://www.motor-klassik.de/aktuell/sport_U_veranstaltungen/hxcms_article_508777_14702.hbs