My mom had a Saab 900 Turbo in college which I really wish she never let go of. My dad had a whole host of cool cars, including a white over red ‘71 Coupe DeVille he had when he first met my mom, a Pontiac Catalina Convertible they used to drive around in with the top down and heater on in the winter, and a Volvo 740…

These are rare for a reason. If you’ve ever driven a Beretta, you know.

My father hates Fords, and is diehard GM. I created the “3 Fs” my father preached we should never buy. Fords, Foreign cars, and Front Wheel Drive. He’s down to only 2 of those Fs, but we all laughed when he got an early 80s Ford Fiesta as a company car. It ticked all the boxes!

Are you kidding me ? The Ion Redline is a fantastic vehicle. Being a Saturn, It won’t rust. The Getrag 5-speed is a solid geabox. It comes with decent power. A supercharger pulley upgrade and ECU tune from GM themselves will up the power to crazy levels. This is totally a bad ass vehicle that is a far better…

This was my exact thought process;maybe not the same order,but otherwise...yes.

Yes, it’s a shitty mid-aughts GM product. Yes, the interior materials are crap. Yes, you will have to explain to anyone who asks why the hell you bought a Saturn and why this is different from a regular Ion.

Cool!  But China sucks.

If I skip lunch, I can make it a 9-2

Some days, I leave early. Work a 9-3. 

You could give me 900 reasons why not, but I'll give you 9000 reasons why you should 

I hate myself for wanting this so bad, while I put my 9-5 hours in. 

In fact I once wrote a Sonnet about it 

Indeed, it was a very Linear shot

Did the Saab Cupid shoot an Aero through your heart?

I have a soft spot in my heart for Snabs. I had a 9000 and a 900 before I switched to VeeDubs. This one would be a hoot to drive, it’s in good shape, and you won’t see another one coming down the road at you. A great DD. Nice Price all the way to Trollhättan.

“I traded a table for it. Try putting that in a 4 square.”

Some 30 or 40 years back, my grandfather took me out to a farm up north to go check out a dusty old project he’d long forgotten. “It’s been ages since I been in that old barn, and I can’t remember what I done left in there. It was some foreign job, from way back when.”

The saddest barn find is the one that you really want to save but the old farmer claims that he will fix it up someday and years later you see it completely beyond repair knowing that you could have saved it.

I was in Tulsa when they unearthed Miss Belvedere, a 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was buried in an underground vault, if that counts. It was pretty impressive how sure they were they’d be able to get it going, but no. That thing was gooooooooone.

Is it just me, or is the hard top weirdly proportioned? Don't get me wrong though, the convertible is one of the most beautiful things ever produced by mankind.