Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:06:37 GMT
From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Two SAAB family again?
in article 7GNOh.102489$S%2.52323nospamfe06.phx, Rod H at rodhoggnospamnet
wrote on 28/03/2007 01:10:
>
> "Paul Halliday" <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:C22F2193.7DEB%pjghnospamyonder.co.uk...
>> Oh boy! I have said in the past that the way to ruin is not through drink,
>> or loose women, but by owning more than one SAAB :)
>>
>> I picked my car up from my mechanics this evening, following a
>> mini-service,
>> and my wife took a particular liking to a shabby black C900 convertible
>> that
>> they have tucked away in the corner ready for doing up. The car was
>> imported
>> from Singapore a few years ago, so has not suffered the relentless winters
>> of road salt that we get here in the UK and they're going to fit an Aero
>> body kit, give it a re-spray and damn good "doing up". The price seemed
>> right, for the finished job, so I think we're going to have to buy it.
>>
>> She's talked about nothing else and even named it :)
>>
>> I'll have to ring tomorrow and give a more solid confirmation. They said
>> they'd give us first refusal, anyway ...
>>
>> Ho-hum! Back to no money and two SAABs ... Bliss!!!
> well what did she name it?
Tabitha, since you asked :)
I'm not sure the car has a feline character, apart from being black and we
have some black cats ... But she likes the name.
Here's some pictures I got today:
<http://www.saabphotos.com/gallery/Tabitha>
... Before the re-spray and the Aero kit fitting.
It was very damp and wet today, so a good test for the convertible roof. It
was absolutely bone dry inside.
Paul
1989 900 Turbo S
http://saab.go.dyndns.org/