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2,000km trips for a service. Naming your kids after Saabs. Privately importing your diesel Saab 9-3 into the US?

All are examples of hardcore.

Here’s a new one.

The arm belongs to a guy over at SaabCentral who goes by the handle Ajaiello85. Click to enlarge:

Yep. It’s the Gryphon, in ink, and permanent. Now that’s hardcore commitment, although I guess if Ajaiello85 goes off Saabs he can always claim an extraordinary enthusiasm for Swedish heraldry in general.

I don’t have any tatts. I like them, but I think you need to have a certain extroverted streak to pull it off. I certainly don’t have that. My favourite tattoo of all time is one Tommy Lee got in his early days with motley Crue, an image of Mighty Mouse flying through a bass drum. I always thought that was pretty cool, but it’s only cool on Tommy Lee and I think an equivalent image would look stupid on me.

I also worry about what it would look like when I get old. I’m big on dignity for older people, which is why I think many kids names these days are laughable. I can’t imagine a 65 year old guy named Jayden (and I apologise if there’s any Jaydens out there). There’s going to be a lot of saggy Celtic armband tattoos going ’round in 20 years from now.

Anyway, much respect on the tattoo.

Ajaiello85 – you are hardcore!

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Any more Saab ink out there? Show yourself!

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