Saab 99 Turbo gets some subscription love

Posted by eggsngrits on October 5th, 2007 3 Comments Printer-Friendly

While Swade watches a few videos (I’m sure they’re all Saab. Errr, well, mostly anyway.), I will fill a little with this little gem that I ran across only a few weeks ago. Nicely done.

If you aren’t familiar with IMP (International Masters Publishers), they are a small publisher that specializes in montly subscriptions to popular information collections. They are, for instance, the primary ‘recipe-of-the-month’ provider. Generally, the offer is something like this: pay for the shipping and handling for a fancy binder and a few starter pages and they’ll send you new pages for the collection each month. They will bill you monthly for each new shipment.

This is the IMP page from a collection that is dated 1998. I like the graphics and the presentation, but I’m not 100% sure that the facts are all correct. Correct them if you must…

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riku1100s said:

There certainly are more inaccuracies than these, but even I spotted these:

The 2.0 engine only had the slant-four layout in common with the terrible Triumph 1.7/1.85. Otherwise it was a completely different - and all-Swedish- engine.

There certainly were other colors available for the sedan Turbo than red and black. The pictured car seems to have a rather rare non-metallic brownish red shade. I imagine it was the earlier 3-door cars that were available in cardinal red or black only.

The main rival was probably the BMW 323i, which at that time was the top of the line 3-series car.

Now, experts may continue…

-October 6th, 2007 at 4:43 am
Ted Y said:

riku1100s, Also silly to say there are no sills to step over as you get in. They are there, just inside the door rather than under the door. Now my 63 Studebaker, on the other hand…
But are you sure about the engine similarities. I thought as you think, but Wikipedia says that the Saab engine shared much with the Triumph engine including the same bore centers and even bearings. But I thought Saab’s B engine block had cross-flow cooling and the Triumph engine didn’t. Wouldn’t that require different bore spacing or do I not understand cross flow cooling of engine blocks? My memory is getting unreliable though.

-October 6th, 2007 at 5:36 am
eggsngrits (Author) said:

Ted: ‘Cross-flow’ in engine cooling has always meant a different radiator orientation, not changes in the block cooling as far as I know. The Corvette engine uses ‘reverse cooling’ — the coolant from the radiator contacts the heads first rather than the engine block first as on almost every other engine.

There are ‘cross-flow’ heads, but I think that means that the air inlet and exhaust are on opposite sides of the cylinder.

I could be wrong, but that’s what I’ve always taken from that term.

-October 6th, 2007 at 11:40 am