...which is the reason the dealer is using an insurance company to cover the promotion.

I'll just leave this here...

Yeah - but the proportions are off. The space between the driver's opening and the rear wheel well is just... wrong. The angular "cut" feature above the rear wheel doesn't match any Scrambler I've seen. The hood shape is just... very strange. Fuel filler is in an odd location.

Could be. The body almost looks like some sort of fiberglass kit...

This sort of thing was trendy in the pre-CAD drafting-board era. If you had to sit in front of a drafting board all day, putting other people's ideas on paper, you had to find some creative outlet. Old patent application drawings are full of fun things like this.

This doesn't look enough like 1944 to fry my turkey. Seems more like a re-imagining of a Jeep Scrambler from the early-80's with a bit of rat rod thrown in. Can anyone place the body/chassis source?

Sorry to hear it worked out this way.

Well - given that I see what appears to be homes in the background, I suspect it is a public road.

Except I don't see signs of bad parking: The car is next to a curb; does not appear to be blocking the driveway to the rear of the car; no road marking obvious from the video. I'm sure there's more going on than what we see here, but it isn't obvious what the problem is.

For some reason, I was expecting a more interesting way to attach the tow rope to the car. You know: Something custom-looking with cool hardware.

Cool history - but really, there are a lot of things I'd do with nearly a megabuck in cash. This isn't one of them.

Having worked on too many '70s cars...

Ahhh - The GM 2.8 V6. This engine also appeared in my '90 Isuzu Trooper, in a fit of cross-corporate sharing designed to hold Isuzu over until they developed their own V6. In that boxy era, you could get a Trooper with either the Isuzu I4 or the GM V6. Curiously, both engines claimed the same HP (120); the V6 offered…

I'll admit that I'm presuming the owner's claim of "ran great when parked" won't do much for the next owner. This car has an automatic - and I think it's fair to say that someone who thinks who thinks the stripes are "cute" will also think transmission service is "unnecessary". A quick look at eBay suggests that used,…

Some theories here: http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/archive…

I'd be shocked if the parts value in that car is anywhere near $999. One picture under the hood could have helped confirm my suspicions - but we didn't get that. I still bet most parts you pull off that car will be already broken or near the end of their life.

A friend of mine bought a similar-vintage Saab. I made the mistake of telling him I'd help him fix it up. It had lived about as hard a life as this one - though it ran when he got it. Every time I went to fix something, I found yet another botched repair hiding in there. It sat in my garage for several days while…

...though they can't quite make the "$20K or less new" part of this...

Yup, original query is for a new car.

Really? C'mon: It's a cool vehicle and all - but $30K-ish is big money. There are waaaay too many other things out there that offer similar fun for a fraction of the price.