when i first got my drivers licence here in sweden my father had three or four 96´s that i used....really hated those cars at the time..called them "Päronhalva"...swedish for "half-a-pear"..good little cars...about the only thing i liked about them was the "free wheel"..didn´t notice if you had that on your car..oh btw...Mustie sent me here and im now a subscriber ;)
Damn.. Had a blue 96 35 yrs ago. Drove it all around the country, (every state) Had it parked in Columbus Georgia and over a weekend it got shot full of holes. Literally killed it..But man do I miss that baby..What a great vehicle...Thanks to Mustie 1 for sending me here...Great memories, so thank you for that...A.
That rock was providing crucial structural support, and you just weakened the whole structure of the car by removing that rock :) I wonder how many of this year of Sabb has things hidden in places. Good to see the ol' girl fixed up some more.
Concealed objects in new cars is disconcerting, there were stories from the 1970s of disgruntled GM workers putting loose screws in new car spaces, it may be just an urban myth. When I took the trunk flooring off over the fuel tank of my 1968 96 I found what was told to me to be a "pick" sheet from an inspector regarding a paint flaw, and the car went through the paint shop a second time, the sheet was left on top of the fuel tank. It's a great thing you bringing this car back , and good luck in the work to come.
my dad told me stories of the workers in the car factories in Coventry putting bolts on string in the door pillar's for a joke to make knocking noises :-).... its looking and sounding good!!
lol... always makes me think of that saying, "a grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't." I think the welds look fine personally, I wish I could weld AT ALL (my car has some things I could fix easily now, but in the future it'll be MUCH harder to do, more expensive as well). I just don't have the time and money to figure out a budget welder to buy and then learn such a new and comprehensive skill based thing like welding.
Welding isn't really hard to learn. MIG is by far the easiest and if you plan on doing thin steel it is the weld of choice to use. The small 110 units do a good job on thin stock (up to around 3/16" thick in a single pass, thicker with multiple passes.
Once my father had Citroën, the rockers were rotted but the warranty took care of it. Anyways when they cut them open thy found shrimpshells. Classic french
Like Thomas wrote earlier, there are stories about workers at the factory in Trollhättan who put small rocks in quite some cars in different places depending on the shape of the rocks. This phenomenon is related to Saabs slogan "Made i Trollhättan by trolls". Since trolls throws stones at ringing church bells and "bergatroll" (mountaintrolls) is one of the more common trolls in myths, they use stone tools in their mines deep in the mountains. This has been written about in swedish auto litterature but is as far as I know not quite verified. And not to forget, nice work on the 96!
haha real weird find! I wonder if there was any stones in my 900 from -83, we never now. I heard that a local fire department used is as a training car and burned it up after i have left it at the scrapyard. It was a nice 900 but totally rotten, it lasted a year in my care then the engine lost all power. Now I have a 9-3 -05, but miss my 900 for the simplisity, no sensors and advance electrics. Keep on the good work! Regards from a SAAB lover in Sweden.
Hey Amesie I am a big fan of your videos and have been watching for quite some time and i actually started liking Saab products cuz of your videos. I am currently the owner of a 1990 Ford Ranger but its on its way out so im currently saving up for a new car was thinking a 1972 Saab Sonett i found in a Sonett sales page i found online. This sonett owner only wants $1,000 for it and he said it needs the gas drained and refilled and it is missing the rear floor pan. Is that floor pan a huge deal or is it just a easy fix? i need massive advice with this sonett and hopefully you can get back to me :) it will be a bit before i get it, currently job searching with only $300 coming my way from working seasonal. Hopefully that Saab will be in my driveway someday soon
A rock all the way here from Sweden, welded in. That sure is one of the strangest things I've heard, I really wonder what the story behind that is. Some prankster factory worker deciding to leave a prank easter egg maybe? Keep the videos of this Saab coming!
I love stories like this. My grandfather had a beer can in the door of his station wagon, and a friend of the family had a small rock in the trunk gate with a note tied to it that read "I wonder how long it took you to find this?"
My grandfather bought a Yugoslavian Fiat 600 (Zastava) back in the day and the windows would not roll up or down, they took the panel off and there was just a piece of wood holding the window up and a note saying "we only get paid for this much effort"
Good Afternoon Sir, The rock could have been put there by the "Trolls" of Trollhatton( little people who are never seen). Are you using the Solex Carb,does the fast idle drop out and the engine tend to stall.I got use to right foot on throttle all the time when engine cold and left foot for braking on my 1967 modelV4 47 years ago. Go swift,go safe ,GO SAAB. from U.K.Ken.
Nice one mate well done. We had problems famously in the UK with car production being sabotaged during the strikes in the 70s, bolts etc rumoured to be put inside engines and body cavities to ruin final product! Do you think Saab had an unhappy work force or was that meant as a good luck charm? I'm now wondering if there are other stories of rocks in Saab frames! Maybe early weight distribution knowing Saab!
I'm looking at a Saab 9-5 Areo 01, it has 134 k miles and most were spent in Florida so no rust, should I buy it? I know on a Legacy 2.5 the heads go by 150 so is this Saab the same?
I know this is a lot to ask for. I don't know much about Saabs or cars in general, you do. I'm looking at a Saab and its two hours away. If I give you the information, could you call them and ask questions? I could pay you and all, I know it might be a lot to ask for, thanks.
Great to see another classic saved, interesting and enjoyable series.
great to see another TH-camr watching!
Thanks man!
Welcome, I watch a lot of your work - awesome stuff!
nice
Wow! Really great video. This gives me hope for my rusty 1989 900S! It is full of holes and runs well. I hate to give it up!
Noticed the fire extinguisher 👍
Great job. You gotta love this old saab 96. One is for sale just near me. Must go there and have a look at this car. It's white and year 71.
Awsome work!!!
Great Job!
That Swedish car is amazing wish I had one in my Saab collection
Nice work!
love that little Saab, looking great!
when i first got my drivers licence here in sweden my father had three or four 96´s that i used....really hated those cars at the time..called them "Päronhalva"...swedish for "half-a-pear"..good little cars...about the only thing i liked about them was the "free wheel"..didn´t notice if you had that on your car..oh btw...Mustie sent me here and im now a subscriber ;)
Really sounds great.
Great job Amesie. Another one saved!
Over the last couple of years the price of them here in the UK has shot up.
Damn.. Had a blue 96 35 yrs ago. Drove it all around the country, (every state) Had it parked in Columbus Georgia and over a weekend it got shot full of holes. Literally killed it..But man do I miss that baby..What a great vehicle...Thanks to Mustie 1 for sending me here...Great memories, so thank you for that...A.
That rock was providing crucial structural support, and you just weakened the whole structure of the car by removing that rock :) I wonder how many of this year of Sabb has things hidden in places. Good to see the ol' girl fixed up some more.
It is weird, the things you can find in cars. Project Saab looks great.
Looking Good Keep Up The Good Work
It looks great!
Concealed objects in new cars is disconcerting, there were stories from the 1970s of disgruntled GM workers putting loose screws in new car spaces, it may be just an urban myth. When I took the trunk flooring off over the fuel tank of my 1968 96 I found what was told to me to be a "pick" sheet from an inspector regarding a paint flaw, and the car went through the paint shop a second time, the sheet was left on top of the fuel tank.
It's a great thing you bringing this car back , and good luck in the work to come.
excellent work, Amesie! keep it up
great job
nice work
"Forty yards on a galloping horse." That's just great!
Nice :)
Just been through a job like this on my Volvo its alot of hard Work to make the inspecition date
Great progress in a short time.
My grandfather had a Saab as yours. bake in the days it was a very expensive vehicle in Denmark
The metal work looks good Amesie. Have fun driving the 96 & looking forward to seeing it at the car show's next year.
Epic stuff!
Nice work 💯
my dad told me stories of the workers in the car factories in Coventry putting bolts on string in the door pillar's for a joke to make knocking noises :-).... its looking and sounding good!!
looks awesome Good Job :)
Amesie you have to get this car on Jay Lenos garage one day. He loves unique vintage metal.
Looks strong
Nice one, making good progress!
Love it!
Funny how you found that rock,, in the ROCKER PANEL. lol
lol... always makes me think of that saying, "a grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't." I think the welds look fine personally, I wish I could weld AT ALL (my car has some things I could fix easily now, but in the future it'll be MUCH harder to do, more expensive as well). I just don't have the time and money to figure out a budget welder to buy and then learn such a new and comprehensive skill based thing like welding.
Welding isn't really hard to learn. MIG is by far the easiest and if you plan on doing thin steel it is the weld of choice to use. The small 110 units do a good job on thin stock (up to around 3/16" thick in a single pass, thicker with multiple passes.
Congrats. Do a Sonett video as well.
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LOOKING GOOD ENGINE SOUNDS A LITTLE ROUGH BUT HAY ITS RUNNING TKS RON
looks so much better, bet drives allot stiffer too .l could almost smell the primer from here.
Nice it looks much better than it did! I like your name for the body work we call it 50/50 50 feet or 50 mph you'll never know the difference..lol
Incredible!!! Next time maybe an old 99? :-). Love your vids!!
Once my father had Citroën, the rockers were rotted but the warranty took care of it. Anyways when they cut them open thy found shrimpshells.
Classic french
Great job man. You're giving this little Saab a new lease on life!
Nice job, Saab is coming along! I love the "forty yards on a galloping horse" comment.
Finding that rock in the panel must've been a trip!
Gotta love that V-4 over square torque monster.
Like Thomas wrote earlier, there are stories about workers at the factory in Trollhättan who put small rocks in quite some cars in different places depending on the shape of the rocks. This phenomenon is related to Saabs slogan "Made i Trollhättan by trolls". Since trolls throws stones at ringing church bells and "bergatroll" (mountaintrolls) is one of the more common trolls in myths, they use stone tools in their mines deep in the mountains. This has been written about in swedish auto litterature but is as far as I know not quite verified. And not to forget, nice work on the 96!
haha real weird find! I wonder if there was any stones in my 900 from -83, we never now. I heard that a local fire department used is as a training car and burned it up after i have left it at the scrapyard. It was a nice 900 but totally rotten, it lasted a year in my care then the engine lost all power. Now I have a 9-3 -05, but miss my 900 for the simplisity, no sensors and advance electrics.
Keep on the good work!
Regards from a SAAB lover in Sweden.
I can picture some Saab factory welder back in the day using that rock as a temp spacer. He's still probably wondering where he left it.
Nice to see your fixing up the 96. Wish that you had more space so could have save the Saab two-strokes from the woods.
Hi, New to the channel, also from MA with 1970 VW Bus.
Hey Amesie I am a big fan of your videos and have been watching for quite some time and i actually started liking Saab products cuz of your videos. I am currently the owner of a 1990 Ford Ranger but its on its way out so im currently saving up for a new car was thinking a 1972 Saab Sonett i found in a Sonett sales page i found online. This sonett owner only wants $1,000 for it and he said it needs the gas drained and refilled and it is missing the rear floor pan. Is that floor pan a huge deal or is it just a easy fix? i need massive advice with this sonett and hopefully you can get back to me :) it will be a bit before i get it, currently job searching with only $300 coming my way from working seasonal. Hopefully that Saab will be in my driveway someday soon
So what became of this Saab 96 project?
I can just picture when the car was new, the buyer taking it in to the dealer complaining about a rattle in the floorboard. Well there's your problem!
A rock all the way here from Sweden, welded in. That sure is one of the strangest things I've heard, I really wonder what the story behind that is. Some prankster factory worker deciding to leave a prank easter egg maybe? Keep the videos of this Saab coming!
I love stories like this. My grandfather had a beer can in the door of his station wagon, and a friend of the family had a small rock in the trunk gate with a note tied to it that read "I wonder how long it took you to find this?"
My grandfather bought a Yugoslavian Fiat 600 (Zastava) back in the day and the windows would not roll up or down, they took the panel off and there was just a piece of wood holding the window up and a note saying "we only get paid for this much effort"
That rock is swedish land, you better send it back to us! :)
Nah, you can keep it. Store it in the glove box or the car might miss it.
awesome ☺ I think we miss one stone in Sweden 😉
Just a question, what got you into SAAB? nothing wrong with it and I love the work you've done to the xar, i was just curious
Suprisingly many swedes in the comments
Good Afternoon Sir, The rock could have been put there by the "Trolls" of Trollhatton( little people who are never seen).
Are you using the Solex Carb,does the fast idle drop out and the engine tend to stall.I got use to right foot on throttle all the time when engine cold and left foot for braking on my 1967 modelV4 47 years ago. Go swift,go safe ,GO SAAB. from U.K.Ken.
Nice one mate well done. We had problems famously in the UK with car production being sabotaged during the strikes in the 70s, bolts etc rumoured to be put inside engines and body cavities to ruin final product! Do you think Saab had an unhappy work force or was that meant as a good luck charm? I'm now wondering if there are other stories of rocks in Saab frames! Maybe early weight distribution knowing Saab!
Is the new paint color matched? looks very close.
I'm looking at a Saab 9-5 Areo 01, it has 134 k miles and most were spent in Florida so no rust, should I buy it? I know on a Legacy 2.5 the heads go by 150 so is this Saab the same?
I know this is a lot to ask for. I don't know much about Saabs or cars in general, you do. I'm looking at a Saab and its two hours away. If I give you the information, could you call them and ask questions? I could pay you and all, I know it might be a lot to ask for, thanks.