Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
A sad day...
Jim Matthews
Sometimes milestones pass without fanfare.
I just shipped my SAAB project wagons off for scrap.
6 months of work failed in the first test drive, Summer 2018.
After a year looking for a "round toit" I determined that creepers and jackstands are part of my past.
It was hard seeing them go.
Re: A sad day...
Bruce, a MN Galoot
There just comes a time... I had a 1981 Goldwing on which I could fix everything. I had to because none of the mechanics around here knew anything about them. Then it got to the point when I was doing as much fixing as riding and my wife said either you get a new bike or I’ll never ride with you again.
Sorry that day had to come for you. I feel your pain.
Re: A sad day...
Howard Pollack
Saabs were very idiosyncratic cars. I had a 2 stroke, 3 cylinder one many years ago. It lost first and reverse gears while driving across the country. I had to park only on hills... I think, but I'm not sure, that the distributor turned counter-clockwise. It's not fun to give up such projects. -Howard
Re: Time for a change
Ralph Lipeles
When I retired I had 6 project cars waiting. I then thought about it and, after a lifetime working/restoring for myself and others, decided that was enough. From then on, I bought new cars and traded every 2 to 3 years before they needed and work.
Re: A sad day...
Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
Jim, I loved SAAB. I had a couple of 900 3-door hatches. The last one was a 1993 Turbo, the last real SAAB (made by SAAB before taken over by General Motors). I kept it for 18 years. Wished I had not sold it. They really do not build them like that anymore.
Regards from Perth
Derek
Re: A sad day...
Joe shelton
Probably a mature decision.
Only car I've ever mourned was a TR 3.
Re: A sad day...
Thomas Starbuck Stockton
Had a boss who had one of the old ones that were really roundy, his brother hated it and kept threatening to bury it and turn it into a septic tank
Tom
Re: A sad day...
Jim Dillon
Ahh, the TR-3. I was lucky enough to own one in the early 70s. Concours condition thanks to a previous owner whose wife forced him to sell it as he apparently spent more time working on it than with her. I loved that car until the electricals started to go and I needed more dependability. A week or so after I sold it for what I had paid ($600!!), I saw it in a parking lot with the front end smashed. Sure wish I still had that car. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Jim
Me too...
Jim Matthews
I just started a lease of a KIA Niro EV.
For only $250 a month I have a car that can steer itself and maintain following distance.
Re: Me too...
Joe shelton
My pickup can do that too, except when my wife is driving.
Your pickup knows the way?
Jim Matthews
Izzit your truck has the route memorized, or your wife is the autonomous pilot?
(No word of a lie, I was *really* surprised when the steering wheel kept me in the lane.)
Re: A sad day...
Gerry in North Surrey
Electrical issues with a 50's to 70's British car? Electrified by Lucas, Prince of Darkness.
Gerry, who went through his share of Prefects, Anglias, and the occasional TR.
Re: A sad day...
Jim DeLaney, Austintown, Ohio
It's said that's why you lot like warm beer - Lucas made your fridges. 
Here in the U.S., I had a couple Triumphs and MGs. Electrical problems galore - along with the confusion of Positive Earth instead of the negative (U.S. standard).
If Britannia rules the waves,
Joe shelton
Why cannot she build an automobile that can go through a puddle?
Re: Your pickup knows the way?
Joe shelton
I don't doubt it, and cast no aspersions toward your vehicle.
As to my wife's skills with an (read: any) automobile...
Sad indeed...
John in NM
I had a 1972 99 when I was a lot younger. My dad was an old Jeep driver and used to say "he who own Jeep will know frustration". I knew a lot of frustration thanks to that Saab It was a fun car when it ran, but you really need to be a kid with more time than money, and an interest in turning wrenches to own something like that.
One cool thing though, our high school had a split lunch period due to more kids than the cafeteria could hold. Friends in one lunch period would often play tricks on friends in the other - like break into their horrible old cars, stick it in neutral and push it onto the lawn near the principles office. Easy when it was a VW fastback or something, get a couple burly guys and you could lift the whole front to get around an obstacle. Try it with a heavy Saab though
More memories...
Jim Dillon
... regarding that wonderful TR-3. Took several nonstop trips between New Orleans and DC, and between NO and Tucson in that TR. Wind in the hair (when I had hair!), and my long arms nearly dragging on the pavement, thanks to the car's low carriage and the cut-out doors. Needed two days in the shower afterward to clean the atmospheric "dirt/grease" from my face/hair. Ahh, the joys of a convertible! Wouldn't trade it for anything!!! Once I clicked the electric overdrive switch on, I was in second heaven. Jim
Re: Sad indeed...
Mark Nowicki
Probably the reason that engineering students prefer VWs .
Re: Me too...
Mark Nowicki
My grandma had a horse that could do that.
I don't remember what was the price of hay in Poland in the early sixties. 
Heheh....
John in NM
I get to do that with a 2.5m telescope every summer - why did it never occur to me to reassemble it somewhere else? (like the boss's office!)