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1. I never tried C900 before I decided to give a ride to the 1st seller. I mean I loved that car and I was just sure it drive and handle just like a real car should. The midnight before that morning one very nice fellow saaber showed me his C900 3D 16V turbo and told what to look for, how to open the hood and what it feels when sitting in a darn nice C900 (he had M'87 V16 Turbo, sorta SPG but EU edition). There wasn't any sort of a testdrive then but just a brief intro.
The test drive happened the next morning and... it was nothing. I mean mr Dee was about a bit impressive having only 1.8 NA 8v engine and note that I was testdriving 16V turbo C900! Obviously that saab didn't impress me at all.
2. After I bought (better say ordered but haven't received it yet) Flop I was still receiving some proposals to come and see the next C900. Couple of times I said 'no, thanks' but finally I decided to give a try - I didn't want to get the 2nd C900 but a parts car idea looked good to me. So I took my fellow AZLK'er (I wonder how you guys will read this acronym, lol) to go see that car. While heading to the place that we agreed with the seller to meet at we were talking and ma friend said he didn't understand me how I could trade that [darn good AZLK] car for this oldish sweedish crap. NB: he had never ever seen C900 before so he didn't know at all what he was talking about. He advised me to give it up and just buy a new body for AZLK and how we'll swap carb with self-made EFI system and other sexy things but finally we came to garage where that very C900 was sitting at and...
I was already kinda experienced that time so I advised my friend just to step aside (10 feet from the front blinker) and opened the hood.
All that time that I was chatting with C900 owner my friend was keeping silence. He was keeping silence almost all the way home. But finally he said: "Ok, I do understand you, you are right. I don't say I will go your way but I do agree that it's worth it. That's the real car that your old one could be traded for". Nowadays I'm lecturing him about Trionic design and architecture (he is microprocessor programmer).
Zig
P.S.
Finally I bought that C900 from #2 story and it was Tapir Aurora that I took into parts. To be honest I was able to use only about 50% of those parts cause Aurora was M'85 and Flop was M'84 and there was a definite difference between them (e.g. engine parts - pretty much similar when looking at but not interchangeable) + lot's of hand-made fixes that previous owner did.
posted by 91.77.159...
, Fri, 8 May 2009 15:31:51
, Fri, 8 May 2009 06:59:11, Fri, 8 May 2009 05:41:38, Fri, 8 May 2009 13:44:44
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