Re: Re: Cutting up Sonetts and 1967(V-4) Mod 96's

galanti wrote:
> 
> On Nov 30, 2004, at 11:30 PM, Andrew Peterson wrote:
> <SNIP>
> 
>      I remember there was a repair shop, I think in Wallingford, that worked
> on SAABs back in the late-70's/early-'80s.
> 
>      Andy in PDX OR
> 
> Saab has always had a presence in Wallingford. My first ride in a saab was when I got a lift to my Bowdoin dorm
after putting my '51 Ford into a ditch in a snow storm was from a guy in a 93. This was in 1956 or 1957. Took
almost 40 years before I got around to buying one!
> 
> galanti

Being not far from the New Haven import center, Wallingford would have good
reason to have a strong SAAB presence. 

My grandfather had a '51 Ford Tudor with the flathead-6. My father got a job in
Yakima and came out here in early '60 to work, while my mom, sisters and I were
still in Maryland. My grandfather died in the spring that year, before the rest
of the family got here. My dad drove the Ford for the 1-1/2 years we lived in
Yakima. Went back to Maryland in January '62, but to a different school
district, so my older sister went to three differnt high schools, two of them in
her senior year. She's the one who has owned five SAABs in 36 years. We sold the
Ford to a neighbor of my Grandmother's, in Deer Park, north of Spokane. I wonder
if it's still around somewhere.

The first introduction of a SAAB to our family was a 93 that was owned by a guy
my sister dated for a short time. I don't know where he grew up but he worked
for Army Intelligence.

Andy in PDX OR

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