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Why would one buy a car that's twenty-three years old, sounds like a pneumatic drill and has a top speed at only 140 km/h?Answer: Simply because of the charm of it! And because it's a station wagon... After buying my digital piano I thought that we should buy a car that had the space for loading the piano in the trunk. The SAAB 95 have foldable back seats so that You can use all the space to the front seats for luggage. But, when we already had bought the car we discovered that the hard case was approx. 9 centimeters too long! Argh! Too late!  However, we bought the car. After a while I saw a fresh chrome grille at a junkyard. I thought "I want that!". We bought it and replaced the original plastic one. Every SAAB enthusiast can easally see the different between a -74 with the chrome grille and the -75 with a plastic one. But this SAAB is a fake - as someone sarcasticly told me.
A few month later the engine stopped working. The compression was too low and the only affordable medicine was to replace the engine. But who could do that for a small amount of money? Everyone was so expensive so I decided to take an offer made by a man i had talked to: If I replaced the engine myself, he would supervise my work. The only fee was some rent for the garage. OK, the big question remained: "Am I handy enough to do this?" After a quick glance in my wallet I decided that I was... Beside some scratches in the paint caused by my belt buckle I succeeded quite well. So I replaced the engine with a -79 engine. Another fake part in the otherwise fake SAAB 95 -75.
Now we begin to accept the downsides of owning an old car. But it is still annoying when one cannot locate that vibrating sound somewhere in the coupé...
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