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Re: Where are you finding your 99s? Posted by DougM [Email]  (#211)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from DougM) on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:48:42
In Reply to: Where are you finding your 99s?, Steinway, Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:06:46 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Chip Lamb tipped me off to my '73, which was listed on classifieds2000.com. The car was sitting on top of a hill in Weston, WV, with snakes residing in the trunk. A 14 hour adventure with a truck and a U-Haul trailer brought it home. My now sold '75EMS was listed here in the classifieds, and was only 50 miles away. I drove that one home. A friend of mine, who I chat with at least once a week, told me of my '78T, but I'm in Ohio and it was in Virginia. That was a 16 hour trip with truck and trailer to get it home.
Chip also tipped me off to a fellow Saaber who had parts I needed in PA, and that was another 16 hour day on the road. Then there was the parts run I made to Harper Ferry, WV, which turned into an overnight stay in PA because of a major snowstorm on the way back. I also made two parts runs to Cleveland, which is only 40 miles one way, and I was told of that listing in a local publication by another friend. Interesting enough, the ad had been listed for over two years, and the guy still had the parts when I called him. Typical pack-rat with one house I went to crammed basement to third floor roof with everything imagineable. There was also a parts haul from NY I made just over a year ago, and that was set up thru emails back and forth from a fellow 99 owner who had spare stuff to donate(a complete 99T interior). That trip turned out to be another 16 hour adventure in a 900, with a broken front shock absorber and major snow on the way home.
One adventure that I wish had panned out was a trip I took to a guys farm near Erie, PA. A friend of mine, who has been looking for years for a 78T told me of the stash, but you had to see it in person to believe it. The guy had 5 99's for sale, and a three story barn stashed with nothing but 99 parts. The 99's turned out to be rot buckets, but the parts could have easily filled up a semi trailer. The reason it didn't pan out > he had toooo much stuff, and I had no place to put it. :( I even tried to get others involved, but nobody had any good ideas about what to do with it all....so sad.
I also took a local trip to the Cleveland area a few years ago to look at a guys stash of 96's, but that was a dead ender as well. The guy was legally blind, and he couldn't see that his collection had rotted to the ground from 15 years of sitting. Out of the seven 96's he had, there wasn't enough good parts to build even one of them.
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