Back at the U of Minn. in 1968 I carpooled with a fellow grad student in his Saab. It required a qt. (liter?) of oil per 7 gallons of petrol. When did that loveable quirk get obsoleted?
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 12:03 AM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I had some problem with my 75 Grand Prix, I think it was the ignition > switch got tore up when some miscreant tried to steal it. This was in > Cambridge. Someone told me there was this garage close by I should go to. > It was at the time in a pretty shitty area of East Cambridge. > > I took the car over one morning to see what they might be able to do with > it. Whichever one I talked to was an extremely supreme asshole even by > local standards. I just turned around and left. They might have had that > radio show at the time, maybe that’s how whoever told me to go there knew > about them. I had no idea but later when I heard the show I was like oh > that’s that asshole I saw that time. Unimpressed. > > BTW the No Nukes thing: as you came on Mass Ave across the Hahvahd Bridge > from Bawstun into Cambridge (right beside MIT so everyone called it the MIT > bridge or just the Mass Ave bridge) there was a sign that said “Welcome to > Cambridge Nuclear-Free Zone.” Then a 1/4mile on up Mass Ave was a nuclear > reactor. Go figure. > > At some point it was changed to “Domestic Violence-Free Zone” but I don’t > think that was true either. We always debated if the hyphen belonged there. > > OBTW I had a girlfriend for a bit who had an old rusted out clapped out > 70s Saab 99 i think it was. The ignition switch was in the console by the > gear shifter and there was nothing below it to protect it, no shield or > anything. One day I was riding with her, I might have been driving i don’t > recall and hit a pothole right in Hahvahd Squayuh in front of the Coop and > the switch fell out, the hole for the switch had completely rusted out. > Hmmm well that’s interesting. > > She pulled over and I managed to get hold of it from underneath, it was > dragging on the street at that point. I think she had a coat hanger in the > car she fished into the hole and we managed to pull the switch back up into > the car and tied it up there with a rag or something. Field repair. > Turning the key on and off was an adventure, I think she used some pliers > or vice grips or something to hold it as I had recommended. > > She was leaving the country within a couple months to go on a ramble and > sold it for a few $100. It still ran well it was just clapped out. Never > did figure out why Saab had that stupid design but it was like an iconic > design thing. I guess Sweden didn’t salt roads. We did have a conversation > about that but reached no conclusions. > > I don’t believe the Saab was equipped with any Cause Stickers. > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > > > On Feb 12, 2024, at 11:09 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > yes click & clack worked on them. > > > >> _______________________________________ > > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
