Holy cow! Sounds like the old Farmalls I used to drive as a kid were less
complicated to operate - even with implements!.
Do you folks all recall Chip Lamb, West of Sweden? He’s still around in the
high-line auction business, I believe, but not pushing Saabs.
-D
> On Feb 13, 2024, at 9:25 AM,
Not the regular clutch, there was a lever that engaged an overrunning clutch on
the transmission so that the transmission couldn't push the engine.
IIRC freewheel is what it was actually called.
-Curt
On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 11:21:04 AM EST, Randy Bennell via Mercedes
wrote:
I
Until you learn what brake fade is (was).
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 11:12, Curt Raymond wrote:
> Au contraire, you needed to know about the freewheel device which would
> prevent engine braking and allow the engine to just idle while you
> terrified your passengers with the uncontrolled
I assume the free wheel device is the clutch?
Randy
On 13/02/2024 10:12 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
Au contraire, you needed to know about the freewheel device which would prevent
engine braking and allow the engine to just idle while you terrified your
passengers with the
Au contraire, you needed to know about the freewheel device which would prevent
engine braking and allow the engine to just idle while you terrified your
passengers with the uncontrolled downhill...
-Curt
On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 11:05:40 AM EST, Allan Streib via Mercedes
wrote:
Saab had the key switch between the seats for a long, long time. When I was
shopping TDIs back in 2013 I drove one. I think it was one of the GM made
models, probably early 2000s. It drove well, felt like a Saab but missed that
special something of Saabness.
Got it back to the little dealer
The old 2-cycle engines!
--FT
On 2/13/24 10:56 AM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
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
When you go down a long hill and the engine siezes from oil starvation, because
it only gets oil when you have the throttle open. You had to be instructed and
remember to keep your foot on the gas even when coasting!
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, at 10:56, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
> Back
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
Those clear plastic fuse box lids are brilliant, and an example of lateral
thinking about the simplest things.
After the GM takeover, Saab engineers and management famously ignored
senior management mandates to "dance with the girl what brung ya", makings
thousands of changes to the common
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
Absolutely not!
I recall my first visit to Bawstun in the late 1980s, and everyone seemed to be
driving 240DLs. I had never seen so many Volvos before in my life in one place.
That and the big Volvo dealership on 128 around Wakefield or Woburn where my
step-sister-in-law ran the cellular phone
no. i had one in the day
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 11:18 PM Andrew Strasfogel
wrote:
> Not that there's anything wrong with that.
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM Dwight Giles via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
>> yup and an old McCarthy sticker
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 10:51
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:11 PM Dwight Giles via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> yup and an old McCarthy sticker
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 10:51 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> > Volvo: the Cambridge
yup and an old McCarthy sticker
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 10:51 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Volvo: the Cambridge Cadillac
>
> Required:
> Save the Whales
> Free Tibet
> No Nukes
>
> --FT
> Sent from iFōn
>
> > On Feb 12, 2024, at 10:35 PM, dan penoff.com via
yes click & clack worked on them.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 10:35 PM dan penoff.com via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Saabs and Peugeots, only in New England. Those and Volvos made "Click &
> Clack" some very comfortable men, even before the radio show.
>
> -D
>
> > On Feb 12, 2024, at
And Mondale for President
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 22:50, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
> Volvo: the Cambridge Cadillac
>
> Required:
> Save the Whales
> Free Tibet
> No Nukes
>
> --FT
> Sent from iFōn
>
>> On Feb 12, 2024, at 10:35 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes
>> wrote:
>>
>>
Volvo: the Cambridge Cadillac
Required:
Save the Whales
Free Tibet
No Nukes
--FT
Sent from iFōn
> On Feb 12, 2024, at 10:35 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Saabs and Peugeots, only in New England. Those and Volvos made "Click &
> Clack" some very comfortable men, even
Saabs and Peugeots, only in New England. Those and Volvos made "Click & Clack"
some very comfortable men, even before the radio show.
-D
> On Feb 12, 2024, at 7:38 PM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> i used to be a Saab devotee. State of Nine in NH used to have a lot of
> parts. Also
i used to be a Saab devotee. State of Nine in NH used to have a lot of
parts. Also EEuroparts in CT.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, 1:18 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> I wonder what parts availability is like these days?
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 13:08, Andrew
I guess interest peaked. Sold for $11.5k.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 1:17 PM Allan Streib wrote:
> I wonder what parts availability is like these days?
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 13:08, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
> > Holy Swedish meatballs. This Saab is attracting serious bidding
I wonder what parts availability is like these days?
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024, at 13:08, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
> Holy Swedish meatballs. This Saab is attracting serious bidding interest.
> Why?
> https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-saab-900-4/
>
Holy Swedish meatballs. This Saab is attracting serious bidding interest.
Why?
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1983-saab-900-4/
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