Ok Carleton, always with the same old Saab stories...... *wink*
At 18:07 2007-07-09, Carleton MacDonald wrote:
I owned a Beetle (1964 1200) from 1971 to 1976. I did my own work
on the car, everything from brake jobs, to tune-ups, to a complete
engine overhaul. The three biggest tools I had were John Muir's
wonderful hippie manual "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A
Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Complete Idiot", and my 10
mm and 13 mm wrenches. I still have all three (not the Beetle
though), and all three show the effects of long and devoted use. My
neighbor actually asked me why all my wrenches were fairly clean
except the 10 mm and the 13 mm. "I owned a Volkswagen Beetle," I told him.
I sold it to a friend and got a 1976 Rabbit, then a 1978 diesel
Rabbit, which wore out in 1986. I traded it in and bought a 1986
Saab 900S, followed in 1992 by a 1988 Saab 900T (after the S was
destroyed in an ice storm collision with two trucks; we walked home,
a tribute to how well those cars are made), and, when it diedin 2002
on Autoroute 15, km 26, in Quebec, with a 1999 Saab 9-5 SE, which is
still running strong.
Carleton
