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Sorry it took me a while to reply, I haven't kept up really well with the BB. Anyway Scania was parted to some extent. I sold off the airflow kit, rear whale tail, 9000 aero seats, and a few misc parts. I used the custom black headliner, sunvisors, door panels etc in my silver car. The engine, tranny (yes with the expensive short shift), exhaust, intrax springs, 16" 9000 Aero rims, crossdrilled rotors, stainless brake lines, axles, driveshafts, vacuum lines, you name it, is going into my car this week. Next week its getting fitted the replacement front airdam and a 1980 saab 900 hood with the dual air intakes, and headed to the paint booth for a fresh coat of original silver. It should be pretty nice here in a few days, I will update the page as I can.
As far as extent of damage goes, it was wierd, I will post a pic for the fun of it, since inquiring minds want to know, Todd was hit in an offset headon collision in the drivers side front, shattering the front airflow bumper, euro headlights, custom IC, and bending the hood and front radiator support back about 6 inches and wrinking both front fenders back a tad. Too look at it at first it looked like an easy fix, but the more you walked around you started seeing stuff that scared you. The sunroof was over about an inch from centered, and the biggy was that the rear bumper was about 4 inches higher in the air then it was supposed to be, so basically it pretzelled the entire car. Being a big old solid saab I would have hated to see the other car. Todd was very fortunate.
I see Todd a lot, and I have to say he is out of the custom sports car hobby altogether. I have found him and tried to tempt him with a few good deals on old 95's, sonnetts, etc but to no luck yet. Yes Mary still drives a killer sweet 91 Plantana Grey convertible, but Todd if off fixing up a Toyota 4runner in his normal expensively, meticulous, anal fashion. Its raised slighly, roll bars, nerf bumpers, lights everywhere,etc. Not my cup of tea but it looks sweet.
He will be back someday but it will be awhile I predict. Every time the black car gets mentioned he still groans and looks sad. And I can totally understand.
I told him the other day tho that I was going to write an article about the saab that wouldnt die and detail his work and mine (very little in comparison) and try to get it published with pics of my car. For those of you that dont remember Todd started out with an 88 spg, that won concourse modified in the Colorado SOC. He then took every piece off that car (literally) and built it into a black 1990 900s, and produced SCANIA. Now I took about every part (major parts missing are the 9000 aero seats and the euro lights) and built it into my 87 900T. I would have kept the seats but I paid dearly for the car (as you can imagine) and needed to recoup some of my investment, that and the fact that the seat is about 2 inches higher then the stock saab seat and my 6'7" of manliness (groan) wouldnt fit in the car anymore with them in there.
I hope that is enough to keep you all interested, and when you get time check out
http://carshow.itgo.com I hear rumors of a decent size Saab show in the midwest this year.
best wishes
Perry Ellington
, Thu, 8 Feb 2001 01:50:27
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