Saab 96 V4 – Midnattsolsrallyt 2018
Some Rally Action from Midnattsolsrallyt 2018. Tomi Tikanmäki with Annika Engqvist (MotorMedia Sweden)
Time For Paint – Engine Bay
After doing the practice run with the interior it was time to move on to the engine bay. The 99 engine bay is not an easy thing to paint well. There are all sorts of nooks and crannies that are difficult to reach. Especially the “canyon” between the wheel well …
Time for paint – Interior
It looks like there is hope for my goal of getting the car painted this summer 😀 The prep work is finally done so I can move on to laying some Cardinal Red on the Turbo. Unfortunately the recipe for the Cardinal Red was not available anymore in the paint …
Paint prep on the Saab 99 Turbo
Paint prep is the stage in a restoration that I personally find the most tedious. It’s basically just doing the same thing over and over again until you finally get something acceptable. But at the same time it’s also probably the most important thing to get right. Imperfections and errors …
Fitting the grille
Before moving on with the paint prep I decided to do a test fitting on all the components. The doors, hatch and bonnet were all installed and fitted correctly to check that they sit correctly and all the gaps are even. Or as even as they are on an old …
Hatch corrosion repair
There was some corrosion issues with the “good” trunk hatch also. After removing all the accessories it was clear some welding needed to be done around the window frame. It’s one of the usual spots to rust. The shrinker/stetcher tool was used to make the repair pieces curve a little …
Saab 99 Turbo Part 16 – Metal prep & Primer
We are finally at the Metal prep & Primer stage with the Turbo. We used a standard 2k Epoxy primer. Basecoat will be water based color and over that some clearcoat. This will be the first time for me spraying metallics or water base color so I’m looking forward to …
Saab 99 Turbo part 15 – Driver side door repair
The corrosion issues on this car are everywhere. Both of the doors were basically not salvageable. Just rotten. I did get a few spare doors that looked pretty good. Unfortunately they were not that good after the paint was stripped… The passenger side door didn’t need that much work but …
Saab 99 Turbo part 14 – Time for some primer
A few photos on getting some primer on some of the suspension components and other stuff. We needed to make new fuel tank belts since the old ones were rotten and decided to use slightly thicker material for them. All the components were thoroughly cleaned using electrolysis and mechanical cleaning …
Non-Saab Side Project – A Singer Sewing Machine Tractor
I decided to do a few small side projects. Restoration tends to get a bit monotonous so it’s nice to do something else every now and again. The first “project” was to clean up an old Monitor blow torch I got. It was relatively simple. I took it apart and …