Saab 95 Wagon '74

omg. thats lush.

Thanks for the welcome.

Seth told me to post my pics on here, like he says, shame I didn't get to see him until we passed each other on the Mway!

There was a very nice black Amazon at the show - anyone got pic?

The whitewalls were put on a week ago. Unfortunately for some reason they've started to disintegrate already!?! I'm really disappointed

They only cost £40 to have done, but they should last longer than that!?!

I might make a trip back there, just to show him and see what he says. It might be due to them being so wide, normally he does small whitewalls, up to an inch wide - these are over 3" wide and might be cracking due to tyre wall movement - who knows!?!

I've got some whitewall tyre paint, so I'll try it and see if they last longer. I know he can only do them on older tyres, new ones still sweat oil and make whitewalls go yellow, but these are quite old.

And yes, they do get done on the car - he uses a machine that spins the tyre, so he can grind off the letters and then applies the white paint/rubber.

I might use those whitewall rubber inserts next time and maybe bond them to the tyre so they don't go all baggy

OMG'ness

hawt'ness!!!!!

Would That be Loons?




Just stole pic from Jacks Billin thread ;D

I don't think they are bonded on as seem to be on and off quite often, Loon is on here so he should appear soon. where did you get yours done? do you know if they do redbands at all?

Hmm, interesting to hear your experience of the tyre man. I guess if he normall does narrow bands then whatever he uses doesn't usually need to flex so much. I presume the tyre paint you have is the Itbuk stuff? Its what I tried on my Rapier when we had just developed it and it turned blue very quickly. Might work ok over the top of your existing whitewalls though.

I'm going to have a go at the redbands I want on my Saab myself. The rears have a nice plain band in teh right place but I'll need to scrub some lettering off the fronts myself - I did that when I whitewalled the rapier tyres and its not particularly difficult. I'm not sure what paint I'll use yet but as its only a narrow band I doubt it'll need much flexibility. Plus it won't have cost me much if it all falls off after the first journey!

SAAB 95 on whitewalls owned by a bloke called Simon? Have we travelled in time or something?

Here's my old one:

;D

Yours looks much better though with that earlier front sheetmetal. Welcome to the board!

Love the fellow swede volvo wagon

I seem to remember your 95 Simon, when the whole Euro Kustom thing was going on - wasn't there a pic of 3 Saab's lined up in Custom Car (or Street Machine)? Just before that purple convertable one got built?

Anywaaay . . . thanks for the kind comments - very much appreciated!