The Saab Club Of Finland spring meeting was held the past weekend at Imatra. Imatra is located some 350 kilometers to the east from where I live – Right next to the Russian border. I decided to take the two-stroke there despite the fact that the winter is going away …
Since I left the Sport seats to be upholstered I kind of got more interested in maybe trying that stuff out myself. As it happened the local adult education center here offered a course in automotive upholstering basics. Or rather it was a workshop where you could do your own …
I found two Saab Sport seats earlier but they were in a bad shape (re-upholstered badly). A fellow Saab Club member Briitta promised to sew new covers for me. It took a while but the seats are finally done and I put them in the car already. Here’s some photos …
I wrote earlier that I put a fog light on the two-stroke. Actually I think the technically correct name for it is a ditch light. (And I remembered the brand wrong – It’s Johnson, not Marchall). A ditch light is basically a driving light aimed at the right side of …
Now that I have been doing a little more driving with the two-stroke some more little issues have surfaced. Here’s some fix ups and photos: Windscreen rubber seal is leaking (and the rear window also). I removed the aluminium strips to be able to lift the rubber a little and …
The SAAB 99 Finlandia prototype was made in the Uusikaupunki car factory in 1976. It was based on the standard SAAB 99 Combi-Coupé. The body was lengthened some 25 centimetres by adding an extension piece in the middle. The model quickly got the nickname “saunanikkuna” (“sauna window”) because of the …
Weasel is a small and agile predator, which is usually brown in colour. In winter, however, Weasel colour changes to white, to better adapt to the winter landscape. SAAB 90 represented a true baseline model with virtually no options or accessories available. Incidentally Tuulilasi (“Windshield”) magazine held a competition in …
In the early 1980s SAAB 99 had become an old model and its manufacturing had been moved to the Saab-Valmet plant at Uusikaupunki. Now that the new SAAB 900 had been released, both the Finns and the Swedish headquarters put a lot of thought into finding a suitable replacement for …
I posted earlier the “Saab V8 Engine – The Complete Story” article. It was originally written for the IntSaab2011 magazine. I have a few more short articles from that magazine and I decided post them also. So – here’s the first and more to follow in the next few days: …
Ohessa Saab Sportin suomenkieliset käyttöohjekirjan laajennusosat vuosimalleihin 1964 ja 1965. Lisäksi ruotsinkielinen laajennusosa vm. 1965. Saab Sport user manual / handbook extensions for Saab Sport 1964 and 1965 (in Finnish). Also the Swedish version for 1965. Unfortunately I don’t have any other language versions. Saab Sport 1964 – SAAB 96 …
