My faithful old daily driver T16 3-door has finally run out of T&T, and much as I'd love to keep it going, I also need to tax'n'test the Cadillac and my other 900 this month, and the bank account is suffering from post-summer-holiday emptiness, so something's got to give.
This old gal has been totally reliable in the eight months I've had it (and anyone who knows me knows that eight months is a long time for me to keep a car) - the only problem I've had was when the coolant pipe to the turbo sprang a leak and needed replacing. The car's done getting on for 170K but being a Saab it's still going strong. Recently it's started needing a little more cranking to get going from cold (think it may be due a set of plugs) but we're talking maybe 10-15 seconds of cranking, not ten minutes. It doesn't overheat and I haven't needed to add any oil in the time I've had it. Bodywork is fair - looks respectable enough but has some rust in the usual Saab weak spots - bottoms of doors, inside the sides of the bonnet etc. Overall though it's still quite solid - don't know if it would need any welding for a test but if it did it would be minimal. It's all standard except that the original sliding steel sunroof has been replaced (probably for rust reasons) with a Webasto slide'n'tilt glass job.
Interior is also OK, apart from door cards are a bit tatty and there's no radio at the minute (there's one with it but I haven't wired it in), and the instrument lights don't work so I've stuck on one of those tubes that plugs into the lighter socket. All the electrics seem to work OK other than that, brakes are good and the gearbox is fine with no jumping out of gear. A couple of the tyres are getting a bit tired (boom boom) but a mate has got some decent ones that he says I can have a couple of so they'll go with the car.
Like I say, I don't really want to have to sell this, but my other 900 Turbo is more interesting from my point of view, being a 1979 car (so ten years older than the T16) with all that that entails in terms of amusing '70s specs and trim colours, so that's the one that's getting done, and I simply don't have the storage space for this one. MoT'd and tidied up it'd probably make pretty good money as full pressure T16s are quite sought after, but at the moment I haven't got the time or the funds to sort this one. I need to see £150 for it as it is. Oh yeah, it's in Norfolk. Pics will follow once the camera batteries are charged...
This old gal has been totally reliable in the eight months I've had it (and anyone who knows me knows that eight months is a long time for me to keep a car) - the only problem I've had was when the coolant pipe to the turbo sprang a leak and needed replacing. The car's done getting on for 170K but being a Saab it's still going strong. Recently it's started needing a little more cranking to get going from cold (think it may be due a set of plugs) but we're talking maybe 10-15 seconds of cranking, not ten minutes. It doesn't overheat and I haven't needed to add any oil in the time I've had it. Bodywork is fair - looks respectable enough but has some rust in the usual Saab weak spots - bottoms of doors, inside the sides of the bonnet etc. Overall though it's still quite solid - don't know if it would need any welding for a test but if it did it would be minimal. It's all standard except that the original sliding steel sunroof has been replaced (probably for rust reasons) with a Webasto slide'n'tilt glass job.
Interior is also OK, apart from door cards are a bit tatty and there's no radio at the minute (there's one with it but I haven't wired it in), and the instrument lights don't work so I've stuck on one of those tubes that plugs into the lighter socket. All the electrics seem to work OK other than that, brakes are good and the gearbox is fine with no jumping out of gear. A couple of the tyres are getting a bit tired (boom boom) but a mate has got some decent ones that he says I can have a couple of so they'll go with the car.
Like I say, I don't really want to have to sell this, but my other 900 Turbo is more interesting from my point of view, being a 1979 car (so ten years older than the T16) with all that that entails in terms of amusing '70s specs and trim colours, so that's the one that's getting done, and I simply don't have the storage space for this one. MoT'd and tidied up it'd probably make pretty good money as full pressure T16s are quite sought after, but at the moment I haven't got the time or the funds to sort this one. I need to see £150 for it as it is. Oh yeah, it's in Norfolk. Pics will follow once the camera batteries are charged...
