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The replacement trunk floor I ordered from Saabklubben in Sweden arrived last Saturday. It only took 5 days to arrive on my front doorstep after being shipped by Saabklubben. The floor looks great as you can see. Unfortunately, the day before it arrived, my son suffered a stroke from a […]

Saabklubben Floor – Need to Take a Break

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Things aren’t going quite to plan. Besides other tasks keeping me from the MC850, not all is well with some of the donor steel I planned on using. I decided to strip the undercoating from the donor car trunk floor to make sure it would be a solid replacement. Bad […]

Swedish Steel on Its Way

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This stuff is a lot harder than it looks. I watched a lot of videos, and it looks so simple, just drill some spot welds and off comes the panel. Yeah, right. Never mind that it’s tough to find the exact center of the weld so you get a clean […]

Some Major Surgery

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I finally have the Monte Carlo down to a bare bones body so I can start doing some actual restoration work. The photo to the right shows the bare bones body. In summary, the suspension removal was simple and straightforward except for a few studs being broken due to my […]

Suspension Off, Parts Broken

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I’m getting close to doing some actual restoration work now instead of just taking apart and cataloging. I’ve got the car on stands now, ready to remove suspension components. Although I eventually plan to put the shell on a rotisserie, I can’t put it on the rotisserie yet because I’m […]

Getting Ready to Work on the Body

The photo shows two 20 gallon garbage cans in my barn, however, what’s inside is certainly not garbage. I tend to get ahead of myself and buy some things long before I need them. These two garbage cans hold my two most valuable Saab items at the moment. Click the […]

Guess What a 20 Gal Garbage Can Can Hold

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First, some background, but please click on the “About…” tab above if you want to know more about the reasons for this blog. Sometime back around 2001 I was gung-ho on collecting cars for my retirement years. I bought 5 Saabs, one 1964, one 1965 MC850, one 1966 MC850, and […]

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