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Pop Mechanics: Jay Leno on SAAB
Posted by andym (more from andym) on Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:09:52
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Maybe this has been posted before, but I just spotted it on the instapundit site.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/jay-leno/vintage/long-live-saab-jay-leno-remembers-the-quirky-carmaker-9989519?click=pp
Funny,the first car outside of the family wagon that I ever worked on was a 60ish, black 93 SAAB with suicide doors that Jay described. I didn't know what it was, Dad was a Chrysler guy back then. SAAB? what the hell was a SAAB? This was around 1969 or so.
A neighborhood woman had seized the engine and gave it to my friend who was about 18 at the time, I was maybe 16. She just wanted this dead car out of her yard. All the guys in the neighborhood stopped working on their dirt bikes and pitched in repairing the SAAB (I think they let me detail the interior; although mechanicaly inclined, I had neither tools, money or real repair experience). The older huys got it running with minimal effort, and when the woman saw it running up and down the street, she demanded it back. Since she never signed the title over to us, cops said we had to give the car back. Didn't pay us anything either. Great fun.
I had forgotten about that car until this article.
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Jay Leno on Saab
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