Jon Williams gets a 72 SAAB 99E

[Jordan]

just get the large headed ones 3/16" from mcmaster-carr. You'll also need some backing washers and to chase the holes. I have some NOS ones and they are identical except for being steel instead of aluminum (pretty sure).

[DeLorean]

mcmaster-carrs website confuses the piss out of me, although it has been said that I confuse easily. Have a link or a part number to this?

[Jordan]

I have a box at the shop I'll get the number for you. I also have some NOS SAAB ones I can check the specs

[Crazyswede]

mcmaster-carrs website confuses the piss out of me, although it has been said that I confuse easily. Have a link or a part number to this?

http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-rivets/=jrw933

[Jon1]

Jon, A bit off topic here, but do you remember a while back I think you managed to find the large head pop rivets for the C-900 lower door seal / lower SPG pannel? That was at Napa? Do you recall if you found some sort of specifications or a part number for the Rivets?

I ask because the 99-turbo air dam has these as well, and I need to add the vent panels as well as factory mounting hardware onto an SAS reproduction air dam... those large headed pop rivets are the only way this is going to look factory.

Delorean, this is what I got at the local auto body supply house:
Au-ve-co #8313 3/16" diameter, Grip: up to 3/8", large flange, all aluminum, 100 Pcs.
I think I paid about $10-12.

[DeLorean]

mcmaster-carrs website confuses the piss out of me, although it has been said that I confuse easily. Have a link or a part number to this?

http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-rivets/=jrw933

Yep, those are Rivets, Thanks.

Jon, thanks for the info, that was helpful.

[87 n/a]

I predict it will be less than a month until Jon posts a picture of this 99 on his rotisserie

[Jordan]

I looked amd the master ones are pretty much the same spec.

[saabfan9]

I think this 4-door looks good.

FAIL! this has to be one of the ugliest 99's i've ever seen

[DeLorean]

Well... ugly is s point of view, but my point of view about 4 door 99's... I agree, pretty ugly. seems like Sixten Sason did the 2 door 99 and it was essentially beautiful (from the Swedish perspective), and then someone else (probably a foreigner from Malmo) said "lets make a horrible 4 door our of this too" and Saab, unfortunately let them... Then they made it

[Crazyswede]

i like 4 doors. that one not so much.

[SalemSaab]

Aside from the terrible front bumper + windshield banner, I rather like it ..
Looks like what a 1990s 99 would look like.

Too bad SAAB discontinued it in 1984; VW still produced (produces?) the Rabbit for many decades in some markets (South Africa come to mind)

[Geoff]

Looks like what a 1990s 99 would look like.

Possibly but it would have had the 900 trunk.
SAAB continued to make the 99 as the SAAB 90 from '85-'87. It had the 99 front end and a 2dr 900 rear end.

SAAB actually built a 4dr SAAB 90 prototype but that car is no longer in existence.

Personally my scale of good-looking to kind-of-ugly for the 99 goes like this: 2dr, 3dr, 4dr, 5dr. But for a 900 it's 3dr, 5dr, 2dr, 4dr. On both scales the middle two cars are sort of tied.

[SalemSaab]

SAAB continued to make the 99 as the SAAB 90 from '85-'87. It had the 99 front end and a 2dr 900 rear end.

Forgot about the 90 .. I know the 99 was made thru 1984 in Yure-op.
Did not realize the 90 carried thru 1987, that's pretty awesome.
Wonder how easy/impossible those are to import...

[Crazyswede]

SAAB continued to make the 99 as the SAAB 90 from '85-'87. It had the 99 front end and a 2dr 900 rear end.

Forgot about the 90 .. I know the 99 was made thru 1984 in Yure-op.
Did not realize the 90 carried thru 1987, that's pretty awesome.
Wonder how easy/impossible those are to import...

As long as it is a 1987 or older you can import it. Container costs and import duties will be the $$$ part.