Great shape, and cute as a bug's ear. To think that they somehow shoe=horned a 3rd seat into that LITTLE car!
Also known as "Slaabs". I'd much rather have one of their fighter jets sitting in my driveway, be fun for the grandkid to play on.
Yup - funny little wagon. 2 doors, but 3 seats. (Supposedly listed as "7-passenger" but 5 or 6 max would be more like it. That rear seat doesn't look all that much smaller than the way-back in my Safari - except for the leg room. The little V-4 in these was sourced from Ford. Previous Saab engine was a 3-cylinder 2-stroke.
Why tow it when you and the Mrs can put it on the roof versus a spare tire? :2_thumbs_up_-_anima It would be a darn fugly cooool lil thing to have....on the roof that is
When i was a kid, sometimes i had to ride a car just like that to school, gymclass, and fieldtrips. We always used to fight to get the third seat In the village where i lived we had a right hand drive one to deliver the mail too. As i think about it, we had kind of funny cars to ride when i was a kid...
Are there any of these left there? I would drive this all the time if had it. I'm sure it would be a chick magnet.
Actually, i think i have seen two, or maybe three the last ten years or so.. The V4 saabs were kind of kings of the track on the demolitionderbys in sweden.. They are horribel to drive, and ride as i remember it from my teens when you still could find them alive..
Ford sawed off 2 cylinders from their 60° V-6. So, I imagine that engine had to run rough, if the crank throws weren't offset and balancing shafts were not used Here's one with a V-6. The induction is somewhat crude. But, one can adapt the fuel injection opted in later Mercury Capri's and Ford Sierras: http://www.saabforum.nl/viewtopic.php?t=11602 This one's even more radical and suffers loss of horsepower due to the continuous cooling fan operation:
