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Unread 03-17-2012, 07:20 PM   #11
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Hurry- sell the Saab... parts prices will soon go through the roof.

Come to think of it, a sixteen-valve turbo is one screaming machine!
Hang on to it for as long as you can afford the speeding tickets and insurance surcharges
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Unread 03-17-2012, 07:51 PM   #12
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The Mecedes is classy, smooth and lots of low rpm torque. The SAAB is the equal of a BMW 3 series in handling, is the most surefooted car I have had, gets up to 30mpg, and is fun to thrash around. To get performance out of it, you need to be in the rpm power curve , around 3000 rpm and keep the turbo spooled up. It has 173,000 miles on it, the Mercedes 89,000. Very different cars and both very well made, forged cranks, handmade engines, that sort of thing, and I take very good care of them. I tore the dash mostly apart on the Mercedes this afternoon to wire in a new radio and change the instrument panel light bulbs. A full day to do those simple things. Both should be 400,000 mile cars and I change oil and fluids a lot.

The Mercedes is not a sports car, just a two seat sedan, and the SAAB is much more of a sports car.

Insurance on each of them is $200/year.
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Instrument panel lighting - one of Ford's worse sevice attrocities was on a late '60's Lincoln. To change the radio light bulb, the first instruction in the shop manual was "Remove windshield garnish molding" (then remove the windshield, and unload the dash thru the windshield opening)
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