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Re: GM Purchase
Posted by Lane Dexter (more from Lane Dexter) on Sun, 2 Apr 2000 23:27:14
In Reply to: , Kok Chen, Sat, 17 Dec 1988 12:00:00 

Yep, that's the way I remember it:  Lancia Thema, FIAT Croma, Alfa Romeo 164 
Milano, SAAB 9000.  All the same.  When I heard that it turned me off.  
We've always loved the 1978 SAAB 99 Turbo -- bought a grey one in Nov. 1978. 
  It gave up its life saving my wife and 17 month old son in a rollover at 
speed, Nov. 9, 1989.  When she hit floodwater at about 55, it hydroplaned 
off the road, almost endoed, pirouetted on its nose, slammed down on the 
right A and B pillars, flipped on down the bank and stopped on the brink of 
the river.  I've always been impressed at how a 6 foot 300 lb. driver could 
go through that and never hit her head on the roof or suffer serious injury 
(broke her underwire bra on the seatbelt).

Four days after the wreck, we bought a four door 1982 900 Turbo, but never 
really fell in love with it.  When Sara spotted another gray '78 Turbo in 
Jan. 1990, we bought that.  Still have it, but it's on its last legs -- 
worth more as parts than as a driver.  We later used the wrecked car for 
rescue training in the Vol. Fire Dept.  It still sits in my junk collection 
with its recently rebuilt engine and Motorsports cam.

I'm burned out on maintaining a decades old Swede; and with GM now owning 
all of SAAB, I'd just as soon drive one that actually says GM on the label 
(we have a '96 Chev Suburban).  Restoring the '67 T-bird is more than enough 
for now.  Anyone in Western Washington who wants to trade me something 
American and 'normal,' or maybe a gun I like, or a sleigh bed for my wife, 
or....   for a tired old SAAB that comes with 5 Inca wheels, 10 steel ones 
and LOTS of other things?

I think the old SAABs were best, because they really were uniquely SAAB.  I 
just can't get excited about a 'global' automobile.  But the old SAABs are 
now in the 'hobby' class, being of age and requiring sufficient upkeep that 
they should be owned by energetic young unthusiasts who like to swing 
wrenches.  Maybe the GM connection will make drive train parts more readily 
available, but I don't really feel the cars will truly be 'SAABs' any more.  
Yes, I know they started assembling Suburbans in Mexico a couple months 
after mine was made, and they make Toyotas in Tennessee.  Guess I'll just 
look for 30+ year old American iron.  I miss my '58 Cadillac.  You can find 
parts for a '57 Chevy more easily than for a '78 SAAB.

Kicking the soapbox under the bench, going to the reloading room, trying not 
to think about cars...

Lane

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