• Hey

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:04 pm**

I'll continue to lurk, but I thought I'd at least register too. I've got 2 saabs, 1 honda, 1 creepy van, and 6 motorcycles. I love the site and all the saab knowledge that is spewed onto it. Thanks. Give a wave if you're passing through Woodbury, CT.

The rigs

Photo-op (my name is Gardner)

How many seemingly average looking cars can you sleep in and put a motorcycle in.... at the same time?

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:10 pm**

Hey Gardner!
We met at Swedish Car Day (I was the one behind you on the way to the museum for a little while). I'm glad you joined us, your 99 is really nice!

It looks like you have some other nice toys, right on. Seth put his Honda CT90 into the back of his '86 900 2dr notchback once. It was pretty funny.

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 6:59 pm**

OMG a 9000 with a bike rack on it...damn hippies.

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:33 pm**

TRAILINGTHROTTLE wrote:OMG a 9000 with a bike rack on it...damn hippies.

9000's were meant to haul bikes. I could fit 3 on the roof of mine and 4 (sometimes 5) inside it. We would just pile a bunch of people in some more average car and head to the forest.

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:44 pm**

Hey, look at my profile interests, I like bicycles. Can you live in New England, drive a Saab, and not be a hippie? Let's see, I've never worn sandals, I wash my hair everyday, never smoked pot, don't play a crusty ass instrument, don't own anything made of hemp......., but I do have a lot of bumper stickers and I do enjoy a good vegetable so maybe I am......

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:03 pm**

TRAILINGTHROTTLE wrote:OMG a 9000 with a bike rack on it...damn hippies.

Says the man who looks like baby jesus.

Woodbury eh? I'm always driving all around Connecticut, I'm surprised I've never seen a white 99 about.

Posted: **Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:20 pm**

Well, we could drive down route 6, each of us headed toward the other's town, and wave in the middle.

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:00 am**

is that a honda passport in the trunk?

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:29 am**

It's a '66 Yamaha YL1. It's a neat little bike, 100cc two-stroke twin. A friend in Seattle gave it to me when I was out there. It hadn't run since '88 and has Hawaii tags. I went through it and got it fired up. It's going big bore this winter.

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:11 am**

we should do a SAABrally small motorcycle New England tour.

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:58 am**

Rust_Never_Sleeps wrote:Hey, look at my profile interests, I like bicycles. Can you live in New England, drive a Saab, and not be a hippie? Let's see, I've never worn sandals, I wash my hair everyday, never smoked pot, don't play a crusty ass instrument, don't own anything made of hemp......., but I do have a lot of bumper stickers and I do enjoy a good vegetable so maybe I am......

Uh, Alta sticker? Duh: hippie :lol: (I used to live there.)

Nice 99 -- I had the exact same one, same color, etc., years ago (first car). Sold it with almost 340,000 on the clock. Miss that car. Sigh... :cry:

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:17 pm**

I think I may have seen your car... I passed a light colored 99 in nice shape on route 8 once, younger guy driving it. Can't be too many of them around.

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:30 pm**

It's definitely been on Route 8.

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:14 pm**

So what year is the 99? 77 , 78? Do you drive it much?

Posted: **Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:29 pm**

It's a '78. My grandfather bought it new and my dad inherited it when he passed. My dad never drove it much and gave it to me a couple years ago. It's my summer car. I traveled around the country for a year in the 9000 and switched over to the 99 when I got back in May. It's about to get parked. No need to drive it in the winter.