Congratulations, you’ve found the new home of my collection of pictures and text documenting my various incompetent attempts to fix, improve, and resurrect my 1974 Saab Sonett III.
At this stage most of the content is still exactly the same as that on the old SaabStories website, but the spiffy new blog-style format may make it easier to update if I can ever bring myself to confront the car’s many foibles.
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#1 by Elliott Lewitt at June 29th, 2009
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Hey there Jim W
As the once-proud owner of a 1970 red ‘95 daily driver (she is no longer with us, I’m terribly sorry to say), I’d love to see a photo of the ‘95 into which you so carefully slipped the driveline. Care to share? Do you drive her much?
Terrific site…
Elliott in Venice, CA
[Unfortunately, I found myself with more cars than I had time and space, and had to sell the beige 95. Fortunately, it went to a very good home with Tom Donney, vintage SAAB enthusiast extraordinare. -- jw]
#2 by Barry S. at July 20th, 2009
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Nice job, I wished I documented the restoration of my 74 Sonett like this. What did you use to start your electric fan? I don’t see a expantion tank for the cooling system > did you add one. I am also doing a 68′ 95 wagon. have some rust in the floor to fix and the interior has not been started but it runs great wit a fresh V4 and 2 bbl.
[Thanks! On the Sonett there isn't an expansion tank except the one built into the shock-tower crossbar; if yours doesn't have one there, someone may have modified it. The crossbar tank is the OEM setup, but it's kind of a nuisance because it's hard to tell how full the tank is; I guess some people convert to a 96-style tank to get around this, and I believe Ashcraft sells a kit to switch it over. About the cooling fan, I use a thermostatic switch I got at NAPA which is made for Chrysler applications; I think the part # is "FS-120" or something like that. The nice thing about the Chrysler switch is that it's a normal plumbing thread; I installed it into the bypass-hose line using a hardware-store plumbing tee. Regards, -- jw]