Let me guess, this one

 

Yes that's the one

 

jesus mary and joseph, i've never seen a viggen with miles that high.

 

holy pants!

I thought I had a lot of miles on my ride!

 

Slingerlands? This wouldn't be the same guy with the silver '87 900 Airflow for sale, would it? I know he's also got a Viggen and that he drives a lot for his job. That could explain the 30K/year mileage.

 

The guy seems Scandanavian and a little eccentric
I'm pretty excited about the prospect of getting back into a Saab

 

Yep, same guy. Eric, right?

 

Yeah his name is eric.

 

My aunt just got a 99 9-3 with 250k miles on it... runs great, no smoke, and rides better than my Viggen. :lol:. However, that's on the stronger T5 2.0L.

That's definitely the highest mileage 9-3 I've ever seen, let alone a Viggen. Makes me feel better about my 159k on my Viggen.

 

I emailed the guy last week, and hadn't heard anything.

 

I was talking to him last night, I'm going to take it, but just trying to figure out the logistics.

 

he sold the airflow

 

I didn't care about the rustflow, I wanted the vig.

 

To the two people that saw the ad posted up here, and went and saw it and offered more...really classy.

I can see the Saab community, or at least this one, isn't as I remembered it at all.

I find it laughable he refused to sell it to both of you though.

 

Um, some of us don't post our secrets/finds on the board.

Just sayin'.

When are you picking it up?

 

Don't worry, I live in VA and still haven't gotten an email from the guy.

That being said, I still knew it was a good idea to keep quiet minus a few people when I spotted it.

 

I'm in the Albany area during school and would be willing to help you out, I just need a garage and tools but I'll do it for beer and a ride.

 

i saw that ad, last week. I think Rafal showed it to me, I emailed the guy but never heard anything.

 

I'm the guy who was selling the viggen. First off, the guy from virginia, are you the guy who told me that the car wasn't worth 500 bucks? The guys who came to look at the car, one guy from westchester who got there earlier than his appointment, and the fellow from up north somewhere, both said they saw the ad through saablink, which I thought was interesting, seeing as how I didn't list on saablink. I had a bidding war in my backyard the other day, strangely enough before that westchester guy showed up ( I'm not naming names) The guy from up north was hemming and hawing about the price, saying that the clutches are notorious for being a pain in the butt for these cars, blah blah.. As if a viggen clutch is different than any other 9-3 clutch. I've been working on Saabs since my first one when I was 18, that was 20 years ago! And have been passionate ever since. I KNOW that the damned clutch slave cylinder needs to be replaced, I also know that if I were to do the clutch, I would change it whether it needed it or not, it is not an extra 500 dollar expense!
The Westchester guy showed up and said he wanted it, looked it over, offered 2200, the other guy said I was to blame for this and it went on... I've never seen anything like this in my days... Up to 2500, in seconds. Anyhow, I locked the car, went in the house and never looked back.
If you haven't gotten an email from me through the craigslist ad, it is because you said something really stupid like " I think that car is worth 500 bucks" in which case your email was put on a spam list, or you didn't include a phone number or asked ( just like every spammer on craigslist ) "Is the car still available?"
I'm probably going to buy the clutch and ask someone to help me out with it instead, unless someone comes to me with a very serious cash offer for what the car is really worth or a trade for a newer 9-3 or 9-5 that I can put on the road right away. A fellow with a 9-3 that has low miles on it offered it up, but it turned out to have an out of state salvage title which is a real problem in ny.
The viggen is incredibly cool and sounds great. It needs a slave cylinder, has a new master cylinder for the clutch. It is not a bleeding issue ( not that simple!) Black on black with black seats and the interior is all intact, save for pixels on the display being out, but there are plenty of forums showing how to rebuild the display.

 

I'm the guy who was selling the viggen. First off, the guy from virginia, are you the guy who told me that the car wasn't worth 500 bucks?
If you haven't gotten an email from me through the craigslist ad, it is because you said something really stupid like " I think that car is worth 500 bucks" in which case your email was put on a spam list, or you didn't include a phone number or asked ( just like every spammer on craigslist ) "Is the car still available?"

Here is my exact email.

Possibly interested in the car. Has it lived its whole life in Upstate NY? Winter driven?

Sent on Tues, Dec 22.

All I'm asking now is that you read threads a little closer.

 

Well, sounds like you've already had quite the welcome to Saablink. :roll:

 

Interestingly enough, I was a saablink member years ago, but had changed emails or something since.

 

yeah, this is where it started..:

2000 viggen‏
From: Michael Shelton (mikeshelton90@gmail.com)
Sent: Sat 12/19/09 7:03 PM
To: sale-rffbc-1517363229@craigslist.org

** CRAIGSLIST ADVISORY --- AVOID SCAMS BY DEALING LOCALLY
** Avoid: wiring money, cross-border deals, work-at-home
** Beware: cashier checks, money orders, escrow, shipping
** More Info: http://www.craigslist.org/about/scams.html

$500 is really what it's worth

 

Between the Airflow and the Viggen, I imagine you're pretty sick of dealing with the buying public right about now.

 

What's wrong with asking, "Is the car still available?" when inquiring about the availability of a car on craigslist???

Dave

 

When you ask " Is the car still available", you are doing the same thing that email scammers do to get your email address so that they can send you endless spam. They send a general note to everyone that is selling a car saying " Is your car still available?" When you say "yes" they take your email and add it to thier list of emails to sell to spammers. So, if you want to buy something off of craigslist, add your phone number or ask detailed questions about the car.
As well, you have to understand that the person who is selling something on craigslist will get about 200-300 emails about it. Especially when you list something like a viggen. No matter what, and there is no telling how many of the emails are scams. So if you ask " still got the car?" You are only going to get skimmed past.

 

Hey Ray!
Good to see you here. I could tell that red aero nose from anywhere. I'm the guy you bought the 9000 parts car from.

 

I was going to jokingly say, "Which one?" but looking at your username I'm guessing the green '95? When did you get an Airflow and a Viggen? What happened to the SPG and the Merc?

 

So you aren't selling it now because you decided that it was worth more than you were asking?

 

I decided not to sell because I just had a bit too much hassle with car sales. I simply need reliable transportation yesterday. When guys like Ray come to your house, buy a car and talk to you a long time about saabs, you converse about the last seventeen that you had, Saab quirks and the benefits of heated seats, how many parts that you have left over from the rest of the parts in the bins that fill your garage... This is a great thing, and a common thing with Saab owners, something that seems to be going to the wayside as I own newer Saabs that GM has spread thier seed into. I had a bidding war in my backyard, this is something that happens with corvettes and ford mustangs and GTO's... not to mention that the people weren't very nice, one of the guys blaming me because another guy came two hours before he was supposed to... Sort of rubbed me the wrong way and is a pretty good sign that maybe I'll just get the clutch fixed and be done with it. It is a great car and if I have a local foreign mechanic fix the car, it will cost me 780 bucks. I was going to do it myself, but winter came, lack of garage space, the whole nine yards.
No, I'm not deciding not to sell because it is worth more than I was asking. I do my research, I ask a lot less than it is worth. It will be worth more when I fix the clutch, but it will also be worth a lot more to me as I have more fun with it. Nice that it was made in Finland however, as was I.
Ray, the airflow came after the SPG went, and the Viggen was my friends that I had been eyeing since the minute he bought it from the dealer. I would check with him every holiday to make sure he had used synthetic the months before and that he maintained it correctly, so that when I got it..... It has been a process. Yes, it was me, the green one.

 

That Maserati biturbo you're dangling out there should get the job done.

Wish I had the garage space, I'd take that deal--neat car. You don't see them everyday.

 

That Maseratti biturbo you're dangling out there should get the job done.

Wish I had the garage space, I'd take that deal--neat car. You don't see them everyday.

http://albany.craigslist.org/cto/1527714840.html

Cool car. if you can turn a wrench.

 

Haha, nice!


I figured there was more to the story than what was posted.