Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:21:37 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: SAA C900 Stripes
in article xn0emyu9389yph001nospam.individual.net, sweller at swellernospamch.fsnet.co.uk wrote on 01/06/2006 19:29: > Paul Halliday wrote: > >>>> >> <http://www.pjgh.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/saab/specials/pages/c900_stripes.h >>>> tml> >>> Mmm, Athena posters. >> >> It's a SAAB brochure ... The stripes were manufactured by 3M. > > I'm aware of that. > > I meant it couldn't get any more eighties if it tried. The whole look > and feel is the rather awful Athena posters of the era - you know the > aspirational red porsche or melting phone. > > I'm guessing here; they were eighties brochures? Yes, glossy minimalist images. Glossy-lipped women with sharp cheekbones? There's no face-lift C900 in the brochure and there are two 99s, so pre-1984. Early '80s ... When Porsches actually looked nice. Stripes - they're very kitsch, either way :) Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/
