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Date: 29 Mar 2003 23:20:23 GMT
From: davehinznopsamcop.net
Subject: Re: Saab Museum Trip (WAS: Re: 1985 2 door turbo aero silver)


Someone who looks an awful lot like Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> wrote: > in article b61j6d$ps8j$2nopsam34476.news.dfncis.de, davehinznopsamcop.net at > davehinznopsamcop.net wrote on 28/03/2003 13:37: >> My opinion would be, fly in to Stockholm, take care of all that first. >> Then, train over to Gothenburg, do a short hop up to Trollhatten, >> back to Gothenburg once you're done there, and take the train up to Oslo. > Righty, after much deliberation, we've decided to include Oslo. We'll be > doing a 7 day trip, flying across on a Friday and starting in Stockholm for > a couple of days. Monday - travel to Gothenburg by train to visit the museum > on the Tuesday. Use Wednesday to get over to Oslo and spend the rest of the > time there, flying back on the Friday (late). Of course we won't see it all, > but I like to get a taste of things in a place and go back for a more > extended stay later. Sounds like a great idea ;) > Depending on cost, we'll extend the trip to 10 days, spending an extra day > in each city. If we get an extra day in Gothenburg, another trip up to > Trollhattan to see the factory itself if tours are available. I'd like to > actually see the factory, but I'm not really that bothered about going round > it unless we have the spare day. When I was there, we couldn't tour the factory as the New 900 was just going into production and hadn't been made all that public yet. The museum is really what I wanted to see, anyway. > My father won a trip to Orkney the other year (with the Springbank > distillery) and because the weather was so bad from Orkney to the mainland, > they were re-routed to Bergen to catch another flight back to Edinburgh. Ahhh, Orkney whisky. Do try the "Scapa", it's one of my favorites. > I'm really looking forward to this. Perhaps I should take the opportunity to > hire a car when we're over there. What do you reckon - Saab, or Volvo? In all honesty, next time I go I will also go by train. The train system is quite good there, I felt, and cars were extremely expensive to rent at the time. Of course, if you buy a new Saab, you can pick it up at the factory & use that... > As for the museum, it's the UrSaab I really want to see. I love the look of > that car. I hope the EV1 and a couple of Sonett models are on show. Is > Ekstrom's 99 at the museum? When I was there, there was a 94 (the blue one I think, I'd have to look), the Cathrina, and a Sonett II on display (with soccerball wheels, which I asked about to Pelle's amusement). The right side of the building is the display area, the left side wasn't open to the public and is the work / restoration area. A replica of Eric's red '63 96 was there (he has the original, I believe), the Saab99 from (um...Live and Let Die?) complete with thick windshield, Monty Tarr's 96 complete with Illinois (US) license plates, and of course UrSaab. While the production models are interesting, I like seeing the one-off cars (like the Toad - if you can, check out how they re-made the hood on it to fit the wider body). Dave Hinz

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