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Re: saab quandary Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Mon, 2 Feb 2015 11:39:00
In Reply to: Re: saab quandary, CBS  [Profile/Gallery]
, Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:09:09
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Yeah, body work is expensive, or time consuming and requires good facilities to do right. Is the 89 rust free? Minor ding repair + repaint is much better than rust repair work.
If you can find a clean rust free body with a dead tranny for summer, yeah, that would be easiest given your situation I would think. Keep driving the other winter beater. Is there anything wrong with it other than minor cosmetic rust? If it is rusting badly and the 89 carcass is not, depending how much time you have on your hands, shop space, etc, you could in principle save the 89 carcass until your current winter car gets too rusty to be safe and then swap over to make a functioning 89 winter beater later on once the summer car is done. It's a lot of work, but if you are commmitted to driving c900's for a while it could work out. Try to keep to similar years if possible to maximize interchangeability. 89 was a great year.
I have a 1993 decent, but not show car, for summer and a 1989 for winter. This is the first year in about 4 now that I've had the 1993 out in winter as well. The reason? I was having issues with brakes etc from the car sitting. So now I just take it out for a drive once a month or so on a clean dry sunny day. Sure there is salt on the roads, but if it is not wet, there is hardly anything that gets on the car. I've taken it out half a dozen times already this winter and not washed it since fall and it still looks very clean. So this will be my strategy going forward. At this stage of the winter, clean dry days are rare, but they happen. Usually when it is very cold!
good luck!
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