Shannon’s might insure a written off car, especially if you show them the before pics. As I’m sure you know, Swade, writing a car off is about money, not about damage. Perhaps the insurer wrote the car off because it was a “weird” European car.

Saabs are not your average mainstream car and an LPG 3 door griffin is not your average SAAB! A niche within a niche?
As swade points out, it should have every option possible at that time. How does it drive?

Greg, the guy emailed me last night and sent me the ‘before’ photos. They didn’t look all that bad, to be honest. He’s become negotiable again all of a sudden too. If the car checks out for repairs and he’ll take $19K or thereabouts then I’d maybe be interested again, providing I can insure it. That’s another thing all together. A lot of insurance companies here in Oz won’t touch a vehicle that’s been put on the writeoff register.

The saga continues…..

I’m a youngen, with a hand-me-down 1986 900s 16v (NO TURBO, bummer) at least it’s stick. Even at this age, I love Saabs. My fathers been a saab enthusiast most of his life, with his 99s and what not. Haha, i guess im following in his footsteps. Their is also a 1999 9-5 linear in the family.

I’m sorry about your 0.1% occurance. That really is a bummer. I know this may not help you feel any better, but a friend of mine actually just purchused a Viggen. His previous vehicle was a late 1998 (i think) 318 [C]i . I bugged the lad so much about a Saab as his next vehicle, he finally took out our 9-5 for a drive.

He enjoyed the car quite a bit, especially considering he was a BMW guy. He was quite schocked when I told him he was driving only the 170hp version of the car. And before we knew it, he found himself a 2001 9-3 Viggen. It’s black. Surprisingly, coming from a BMW, he told me he noticed almost no torque-steer at all on the Viggen.

1 down… who-knows-how-many to go. Do I get any extra points for influencing a BMW -> SAAB conversion?

I already asking my friend to sell the car to me…

The difference, of course, that the salvage title was disclosed up front, and the price reflected that. I paid $8700 for the car — an awfully low price for a five-year old car with 34k miles.

I would not be afraid of a salvage title resulting from a front end accident. Especially as you have had the car inspected. If it tracks straight, has no frame damage, etc., all that has happened is that someone repaired it themselves without paying standard labor rates — and they’re hoping to recoup the cost of their labor in the sale price.

But I wouldn’t pay more than about 2/3rd of the “non-salvage” market value for that model of car. If the price were 16-17k, would you still be interested? I’d bet he won’t sell at that price, because he’s still looking for a buyer who will ignorantly pay full price.

That’s quite a bummer I guess. But at least you have a great story to tell on birthdays!
At the moment I’m thinking of buying a Saab Classic 900S GRIFFIN 3D. It’s got LowPressureTurbo and it runs on LPG (propane??). It’s got some good milage though, 425.000 kilometers (I’m from Europe, sorry). Anyone knows something about the type?

Thanx,
BR,
Fonze

” nah mate thats not pulling to the left, thats just the torque-steer, all these viggens do that.” :p

The other problem of course, is that its blue, not black or silver….but i digress…

Swade from Trollhattan Saab is possibly the most passionate Saab dude out there.

He was about to buy a 1999 Viggen (that’s a crazy-powerful Saab in case you didn’t know) and got a Dept of Transport check done on it, to see if there were an…