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Interesting neighborhood indeed. Lot of great cars and a lot of knowledgeable enthusiasts. Best way to meet them is performing street repairs from 9pm-midnight. 

Wow. I really appreciate that story. Thank you for sharing.

Oh, and your car looks perfect. Like, fresh from the factory perfect. Bravo.

The Commemorative Editions are the ones to have. Eventually I’ll snag a nice ‘94 CE. Here’s my ‘93 CE:

They’re simple, fun, comfortable and sound great! I think the styling has aged well and find the classic 900s quite beautiful, with near perfect proportions, clean lines and an overall design where form celebrates function. The performance can be enhanced with ECU, turbo and exhaust upgrades and the exterior styling…

It sounds hilarious and makes for a great story, but it also sounds like the true intent was not to extricate the car from the backyard mud. If that had been your goal, why didn’t you use a slingshot tow rope and attach it to the car’s sub frame or A-arms?

Is that a manual tranny Mark VIII? Color me impressed/intrigued. Looks like a very nice place to be...and that’s coming from mid-90's Recaro addict:

Excellence.

You are correct that my assessment of the new “Manhattanite” only includes areas below 96th street. Growing up downtown, I probably seemed like a bit of a snob, seldom traveling above 23rd street or the outer boroughs; in my experience, everyone uptown was either an old person or a yuppie. Rarely did I travel above…

Talk about a face in search of a fist. What a fucking moron. He thinks he’s won the argument, because the opposition is left speechless. Of course he’s stunned and stuttering; no one with a modicum of intelligence or reason would know how to respond to such idiocy.

As a native New Yorker who has lived here since 1983, I can say that your assessment is mostly correct. The old days were dirtier and more dangerous, but they were more exciting and both the city and its citizens were far more interesting. I moved from Manhattan to Brooklyn, where at least some artist strongholds and…

Good job identifying my location. What gave it away?

With all the salt on the roads up here, the sport wagons become the winter dailies while the other 3 sleep indoors till spring. Far from “beaters”; its not that we want to subject them to corrosion and rust, but when forced to decide, they’re not as special as the others in the herd. Actually finally got around to…

Great! Now I have to spend the rest of my day looking at these on Craigslist! This coming from a guy who just acquired another Jalop-mobile; a manual black/tan SAAB 9-5 Aero wagon. My disease will have reached epic proportions the day I bring home something unreliable and Italian. 

I pined after a set of A-types for over a decade before finally finding a set of 17x8.5's. They are without a doubt, one of the top 3 coolest aftermarket wheels of the 80's-90's. Had plans to put them on my 1991 9000 turbo but sold the car before I could. Shame; they look awesome:

Take a shit mini-van and perform a half-ass conversion to make it a shit mini-pickup? Why?

Those are ASA JS5 wheels. Made by BBS. Not bad, but not a good fit for the SAAB. What that car needs is a set of 18" BBS CH’s or OZ Ultraleggera’s.

As a SAAB 900 lover since before I could talk, I HATED this car when it first came out in 1994. By the time I was 11, I had drawn the classic 900 in all variants from every angle and could recognize the drone of it’s turbocharged 16-valve from a mile away. To me, the 1979-1993 900 was the quintessential SAAB; the true…

What you’re describing is a growing trend that is getting harder and harder to ignore: the Monster drinking, flat-brimmed bros aggressively driving poorly modded, sometimes stanced, SAAB’s with roof-racks. They used to only drive WRX’s and VW’s but, because SAABs have low resale values compared to other turbocharged…