I had one of the '77 99 test cars for awhile, the one that Car & Driver used in their road test. I know this because I have the list of VINs, Test Car numbers and who they were issued to. I bought the car for a few hundred $$$, but it was very rusty and I never did get around to restoring it. Tr...

Digging through my garage I found that I have a new set of headers from MSS. They were still in the MSS shipping carton, but the carton is beat up. They are a 4-2-1 system, 1-7/8" pipe, with O2 sensor threaded hole, 3-hole flange to cat-conv. Posted on eBay Motors, #270672915100 Didn't even kno...

I'm sure I have a couple of Saab 99 radio boxes in the barn, and maybe a radio or two as well. Condition unknown, but will find out and call you.

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One of our team members kept a spreadsheet to track expenses so everyone paid their share. Cost to build the car was about $2400, and included nearly $600 for 6 tires, and about $1200 for engine and tranny parts at deep discount. Also got a deep sponsorship deal on steel tubing for the roll cage. Th...

I thought Infineon was formerly known as Sears Point, and Laguna Seca was now Mazda Raceway. Was sort of hoping the Infineon race would happen as I would like to drive on that track. I was a track announcer at both tracks for pro races in the early 1980s when I lived in Palo Alto. Saab 900 Art car? ...

Looking for an inexpensive road racing challenge? Real wheel-to-wheel racing for a fraction of the cost of SCCA or NASA. Take a look at http://chumpcar.com I am racing a '92 Saab 900S and doing P.R. for the series. The cost to build our Saab race car was about $2000 over the price of the car ($300),...

BTW, Saabs have been doing pretty well in the ChumpCar series. Ken Payne and family have an '85 900T painted pink and dubbed "Sweede Lil Pig". They are racing this weekend at Roebling Road in GA. RobinBankRacing won a 24 hours of LeMons race with their crap can 900T earlier this year. And ...

It has been awhile since I checked in on this forum. In that time I have gone ChumpCar racing in a 1992 900S (2.1L). Picked the car up a few years ago from Jerry Danner at Mile-Hi in Denver. Paid $300 for the car and drove it home with the intent of fixing it to be a daily driver. However, it had no...

Here are some photos from my stint as editor/publisher of NINES. http://winktimber.com/photos/saabrally/1988lacvieux_gillespie-winker.jpg Tom Gillespie / Tim Winker at the 1988 Lac Vieux Desert Divisional ProRally. Held in conjunction with the Press On Regardless National ProRally. The goal was to f...

Jon Davis, arguably the most successful Saab rally driver in the U.S., passed away on Dec 29 at his home in Houghton, Michigan. Davis was "sort of" sponsored by Saab as far back as the 1960s. After meeting with Ralph Millet, president of Saab Motors USA at the Detroit Auto show in the mid-...

The Comic Ozzie Photography site is my little (?) brother. Ask me sometime about how Comic Ozzie came to be. The first "official" rally for the Comic Ozzie Rally Team was the 1976 St. Paul Winter Carnival Rally, Jim Putnam and myself in a Toyota Corolla. Putnam and I had been running toget...

I live about 110 miles north-northeast of Princeton. Straight north of Cloquet about 10 miles.

Look up Bear Trap Junction in Saginaw, MN on your map program.

The picture larger skid plate is going on my '87 900 as it will be my Winter Beater and Winter Rally Car.

Are you looking for the big aluminum one (left) or the smaller one that does an adequate job under most conditions (right)?



(Edit: posted photo in a different location)

The Halda Speedpilot was an all-in-one mechanical rally computer introduced in the mid-1950s. Based on the speed set on one dial, internal gears drive an extra hand on the clock. The driver is supposed to keep the extra hand lined up with the minute hand to stay on "Pilot" time. Accuracy i...

A guy named John McArthur has # 900. A GUY??? McArthur was the ProRally Chief Steward for several years. #900 was also used on the Scanwest factory-backed Gp.5 900 one year. And, yes, if you are not a current member of Rally America, you are at risk of losing your reserved number. I'm surprised nob...