Thanks for posting this. I still have my 900 SPG, and love it - it's a great highway car.
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Originally Posted by rwest
Slightly off topic; how is the availability of Saab parts?
I love the 900 turbos. Wish they still made them.
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Parts for classic 900s are hit and miss. Some things are easy to find, others aren't. There are. I think, a few sheetmetal panels that are made for rust repairs (like front fenders, maybe) but for the most part if you need metal you're getting it off an old car. Normal maintenance stuff is fine, except occasioally it isn't (like, say, calipers for pre-88 cars.) Transmissions are fragile and it's hard to find good ones if yours blows up. In general it isn't like, say, a Volvo 240 when it comes to parts.
The other weekend I took mine on a great little low-buck rally I do every year in West Virginia. This year it was in the Hocking Hills of Ohio. On Saturday afternoon, I hit a deer. Before and after photos:
I got lucky as far as deer impacts go - driver and navigator, uninjured, demage localized (didn't go over the hood and into the windshield, for example), car fully functional except passenger door stuck because hood corner pushed over it and headlamps had bulbs that lit but didn't really do much useful (photo shows DIY light setup to get home on - I had an 8-hour drive home mostly in the dark). This is the kind of thing where parts availability makes things a pain. Finding a good hood isn't too hard but finding good Euro lights is not easy, and neither is finding the accessory grille I had. Apparently Canadian corner lights are not exactly the same as US or Euro ones in how they're wired, so there's that too.