I have activated the WordPress content delivery network Photon. This means that in the future all the images on the site should load faster – especially if your are not in Finland 😀 The performance may be a bit sluggish at first as the image files are distributed all around …
I have written previously about the Saab 900 Turbo M racing series here in Finland: http://www.saabisti.fi/miscellanea/rare-saabs-the-finnish-specials/ (end of the page) And there’s also the post on Saabworks.fi with some more photos: http://www.saabworks.fi/car/saab-900-merkkiluokka/ The Turbo M racing series was quite popular back in the eighties. There were about 45 cars made …
I had the great pleasure of interviewing Simo again yesterday (I have been writing an article series of his career for the Saabisti magazine with Tikkis). As it happened the only time to catch up with him was during the WRC Neste Rally Finland at Jämsä. The interview went great …
Myydään esitteet ja lehdet. Yhteydet: saabisti.jarvinen@gmail.com Esitteet: Hinnat sisältävät kotimaan postituksen. Esitteet ovat hyväkuntosia ja siistejä – poislukien ne, joiden kohdalla on muuta ilmoitettu. Ilmoitetut koot “noin”-kokoja, pientä vaihtelua näissä on. AJA-lehdet: Aja-lehtien kunto on normaali lukukunto tai parempi (ei repeämiä, ei sotkuja), ellei erikseen ole mainittua, että se on …
I designed and had this one made for myself, but after I posted it on Facebook half a dosen Saab-guys have already stated they want one. So I decided to offer them for sale at least for a while. As this is Finland nothing comes cheap – the price is …
Just a little update. I promised to do some welding on a V4. The corrosion was worse than it looked (as it always is) but we got it done. I have also been collecting parts to fix the fuel issues with the two-stroke. And I started to fix the Lockheed …
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 …
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 …
