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Just picked up a 93 900 Commemorative
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Posted by Nashvegas [Email] (more from Nashvegas) on Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:43:33 Share Post by Email
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Much to my lovely wife's dismay, just purchased a 93 900 CE to add to my Saab collection. All original I got the car for a very good deal.

I just submitted it to the SaabCE registry and will probably document the restoration so thought I'd post it here. Interior is almost mint (incl wood dash and power seat), exterior needs some work (but nothing major like bigtime bodywork, mechnically the trans will need help someday but engine is in great shape with only 100K). Here was my post:

I will be the 3rd owner of the car and its only done a bit over 100K miles. It's a 1993 900 CE but does not have the brass plate. Oddly enough it was purchased new in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The car was delivered on 11/11/1993 and I have all (EVERY SINGLE ONE!) service record from 12/1993 until this year. Pretty neat for a guy like me with multiple mystery history c900's.

As the car was a Canadian delivery car, it has a sticker on the passenger side window that says 15/15 -- and the lady I bought it from said that it is because it is 15/15 of the special commemorative editions sold in Canada that year. I thought this was incorrect and it just happened to be a black/tan 900T. She thought it was called a "Sport" edition and not a commemorative by the way. However when I checked the VIN list on saabce.com it is indeed build # 146 of the VIN #'s listed. It does not have the brass plaque so I am not sure what # it is in terms of the "series". The lady said it never had one and I checked the owners manual packet, not included.

The car started in Toronto with owner #1 and then #2, then to Atlanta, then to Nashville with owner #2, and now to me, owner #3.

The car is stock with the exception of some wheelarches that I think are the Saab aerokit wheelarches; however the car does not have the SPG side panels so they go all the way down to the lower edge of the car/mudflaps on the front... first I've never seen this. Not sure why they were added and the lady I bought it from said they were on the car from new delivery in Canada per original owner. I'm going to have to do some work on the arches as a couple were "fixed" with screws and have plastic cracks as a result. They look bad. I plan on removing them and putting standard narrow 900 wheelarch strips on.

Couple other oddities about the car: Mileage is in kilometers (180Kms show and its correct based on svc history), the speedo is in km, and even the fuel gauge is slightly different (I'll take a pic but the fractions / %'s of the fuel level are in euro-code or something). It had the headlights replaced a few years ago from an Atlanta Saab dealer with the regular US lights so no e-codes.

Everything works on the car except: AC, pass side window is slow, 4th gear synchro is almost toast (but trans feels great otherwise).

There looks to have been a persistent leak in the trunk, the left floor under spare tire has rotted (one punch with a screwdriver and there'd be perforation) unfortunately as the drain was clogged above the exhaust (not uncommon) but the rest of the floorpan is solid. Pass side door has some rust at bottom. Drivers door is good with only a little rust. Note that there is a repair from 1997 showing that a Saab dealer "repaired corrosion on bottom of drivers door at no charge under warranty" -- in only 4 years! That is prob why the drivers door is much better than the pass. Since the car is black, I'll probably replace the pass door with an unrusted one and repaint the right side of the car only since color match is relatively simple with black.

There is also a surface rust beginning on the underside / pass front suspension area. Not down by the a-arms but actually under the hood on the shock tower area. I did check it very thoroughly where the a-arms mount/frame rails connect -- its very surface now but I will be attacking it ASAP so as to not become worse / terminal.



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