Save your own Saab!

Yesterday evening I had a conversation with an other Saabist here in Holland. We both see that prices of certain types of Saabs are dropping very fast. For the 900NG and the early 9-5`s this is really extreme. Here in Holland they are available from about 450 Euro (incl. VAT and MOT). And the strange thing is, that they are still not selling well. Good Saabs end their life at the scrapheap now. Very early or special Saabs (e.g. the 92, 93 and sonnett`s) still are rather expensive, and also the 9-3 Convertible holds its value well. But look at this 9-5 Aero estate from June 2002 with 250 hp. The asking price is just € 3.950.

Do you think this is the bottom? For just 450 (asking price!) you`re the proud owner of the 900NG on the picture below. Here the link of the seller.

What am I trying to say? Save a Saab for yourself, at least one. It can happen you regret it in the near future when a good 9-5 is very hard to find (and not cheap to obtain). The Saab friend I spoke yesterday evening understands this very well, he now owns 10 Saabs and is looking for more!

Small Saab meeting

Yesterday evening I had a small Saab meeting here at the Airport with local Saabists. I`ve shown them the restaurant (where we have the Saabmeet in a couple of weeks), the Aeroclub and of course the Airport itself. John (one of the Saabists) has a good camera, so he made some Saab pictures for me (of course of his own Saab too). In a couple of weeks we have the real Airport Meet, we hope a lot of other Saab enthousiasts join us then. Below some pictures.

Royal Saab 9-5

Fellow Saabists are not only sending nice pictures, yesterday I`ve got some very nice Saab gadgets from Simik from Los Angeles (see picture below). Thank you very much Simik! Feel free to look around at the Saab website of Simik!

Today the Swedish King, his Majesty Carl XVI Gustaf has visited the Saab Car museum. Of course he came in a Swedish car as you can see on the picture below.

Clearly visible on the picture is his Saab 9-5 (Dame Edna Griffin Aero), unfortunately (for him) he does not have the same 9-5 as I do (lol). But my 9-5 has at least the royal colour.

Saabs in Stockholm

From my Swedish Saab-friend Levi Ezra I`ve got the Saab pictures below. Levi Ezra knows the types I do not have in my collection yet, so he triggers me with pictures.

Although the 9-2 is rather rare here in the Netherlands, the 9-5NG estate is even more rare.

The 93 is also on my wish-list, but let`s make some money first Levi Ezra :).

Frank (a Dutchman living in the USA) posted below picture of new Saab 9-5NG`s waiting for a new owner on the Dutch Saab forum. They really are very cheap now, maybe interesting for other Saabists? Please follow the link to the Dutch Saab forum for more info.

Then something different. For my Saab 95 I have one gummi holder (see picture below) on the rear-facing folding seat. But original two of these holders are fitted and I am missing the other one. Does anyone have this holder for sale for me? It is the last thing I need to complete my 95 veteran... (edit: FOUND THE GUMMI HOLDER IN THE MEAN TIME).

Without the gummi holders fitted I can always use my Saab veteran as a 1st class hotel room according to this Saab commercial (my son really wants to go on holiday this way).

Pictures of Saab

Nearly on daily basis I post a picture regarding Saab on the Facebook page of Save Saab. Last week I`ve posted the picture below I`ve found somewhere on the web.

As I did not make the picture myself, the nice thing is, that its author found it and responded : "I took that picture at the Gistad Saab Swap meet in the early 90´s. Had one of those pedal cars when I was a kid :-)" So Martin B: thank you for scanning your analogue photo to make it digital. Because Martin B. did I`ve scanned in a picture too :).

It`s a postcard I`ve got from Saab in the Netherlands. Below the text which was written on the back.

Do you have a nice Saab related picture too? Feel free to send it to me: info(@)jouwkeuken.nl

Nice Saab pictures

On the web I`ve found some nice Saab pictures so I`ve posted them on our Facebook page last week. I could not resist to post the "Winter Wonderland" Saab on this blog for the non-facebook Saabists.

Last week I`ve fitted a spoiler on my Saab 9-5, so I`ve made a picture myself too :). I`ve traded in my ugly black rims for aluminium ones, in my opinion my 9-5 is looking much better now.

The picture below is from a 96 I found somewhere for sale. I think these cars are underestimated classics. They are cheap to buy and to maintain. Maintanance is easy too. The only thing is that these cars need to sleep in a garage because the rustdevil likes these kind of Saabs very much.

Saab 9-5

Since new Saabs are not available anymore I`ve decided to collect more Saabs. Recently I`ve bought my 4th Saab, this time a 9-5 more or less saved from the scrapheap. This Saab 9-5 needs some TLC but I`m finished with the Saab 95 and was looking for a new project.

The 9-5 is the Saab with the most experience in my collection with 333.333 km (and still keeps on going on).

I`ve made a page for this Saab 9-5 with more pictures to come during the restoration.