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The cars of the Saab Car Museum: THE LIST

January 15, 2012 in News

Here is a list of the museum cars we collectively need to save for the future:
http://www.delphi.se/filearchive/5/5925/120113-Bilaga_Bilar%20Saab%20Car%20Museum.pdf

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33 responses to The cars of the Saab Car Museum: THE LIST

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    KoGa said on January 15, 2012

    Now the question remains… how? Here are my toughts from the previous post regarding the Museum:

    “I’m afraid the whole museum cannot be saved unless a potential buyer comes forward. Individuals or clubs from all around the world may be able to “adopt” individual vehicles though. My best idea would be for each person willing to participate is to select a vehicle and start organizing a found raiser for that car only in his/her respective club or country. This could be an organized effort. Transporting, storing and displaying the vehicles would remain a question though. The collection would most likely be broken apart as well.

    I’m thinking of setting up a website if nothing else where we can keep the collection together, virtually. Anyone having photos of the cars and museum itself could send it to me for upload.”

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      KoGa said on January 15, 2012

      Everyone willing to help me with the website, please send your photos of Saab Museum to gabor.kovacs at gmail.com! I would also need someone who can help me with Swedish-English translations :)

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    Timeshifter said on January 15, 2012

    There is some kind of web application/widget called ChipIn (http://www.chipin.com/), which allows anyone with credit card/paypal to give some money. So, you can make some kind of fund raise or so. I think, we should just try to preserve this collection to be intact for short amount of time, while bankruptcy will be finished, and then, maybe, if there will be new owner, he may get it back. I have never been in Sweden, SAAB museum is one of “must-visit” places for me, so I wish, It would be still complete in Trollhattan when I make a visit.
    BTW: Is there any English version? What does that columns mean?

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    Aaron said on January 15, 2012

    The Cadillac on the list is bizarre.

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    Bob Conolty said on January 15, 2012

    I’ve always wanted a stroker bullnose, but never thought of getting it this way :-)

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    3cyl said on January 15, 2012

    Is the action to sell these cars an indication that none of the potential buyers of SAAB has expressed an interest in acquiring the museum? If so, it is hard to be entusiastic about the intent of these buyers if they acquire SAAB.

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      nickX said on January 15, 2012

      you’re right. my last hopes will be gone, as soon as the first car of the museum is actually sold.

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        kochje said on January 15, 2012

        Agree with both of you; if the buyer is not acquiring the cars from the museum it says a lot about their interest in the history of the brand.
        The auction of the cars is awful; the value it will create will be minimal and not in relation to the value of the complete collection.
        So the interested party MUST be interested to keep this collection together; will be peanuts compared to the complete investment.

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    baine said on January 15, 2012

    Huh… did anyone else notice the prototype 4wd ’92 9000 with 280hp? Now *that* would be interesting to own!

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    bpsorrel said on January 15, 2012

    Does anyone know how much cars will be sold for?

    Surely some motor museums (Haynes in UK or Retro Auto Museum in Moscow would be interested in acquiring some of the cars? I may talk to Retro-Auto when I’m in Moscow next month.

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    bender said on January 15, 2012

    Guys, this is very sad. These cars need not end up in the hands of individual people. Cars like the SAAB SVO? All of these cars sum up to greater than the individual cars themselves. I am fully supportive of a solution to help save the museum and the cars. I’d much rather not see it break down into pieces since the whole group is what composes the museum. Again, I really think this is Saab heritage and should not be an “opportunity” for someone with money to buy a toy. This is history of Saab.

    I really hope we can all come together and save this museum and for the cars to stay in Trollhättan.

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    bender said on January 15, 2012

    I emailed the administrators of the site that I would support to pay a yearly fee to keep it going. I guess not enough people showed support. How can some of us get involved in this? Perhaps in devising a few plans? I am willing to collaborate to help with this cause. I’m sure others here are as well in order to avert such an unfavourable situation. We don’t want these cars separated nor ending up in the hands of whomever.

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      Tobbe said on January 15, 2012

      It would be really nice to look up som billionar with car intrest. And together we might run the museum.

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      saim said on January 15, 2012

      Bender, you´re totally right!
      I would like to help this way too. But how can I, how can we help together to save the museum??

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        Jelmer said on January 15, 2012

        Tim explained this a while ago but said there where not enough people responding to be part of saving the museum….

        The recievers have to do this to be able to raise enough money to save Saab and sell it in one piece. The rest of Saabs assets is tied up in all kinds of agreements and rights.

        Hope Innovatum can get it, its a good organisation/museum and Saab would fit nicely into its collection. There is more info about Saab and its history inside there than in the Saab museum.

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    Hogge said on January 15, 2012

    There’s a bit of an upside to this that people seem to be missing. You might not be able to read it because it’s in Swedish, but nearly all of them have quite negative comments regarding what state they’re in. Considering how many cars the museums have and that museums never actually drive their cars, that’s understandable. I think that private owners whom are sufficiently interrested to buy cars from the museum, probably will invest a lot of energy in to getting them all in to perfect shape.

    I don’t see it as likely that some teen is going to buy let’s say the Saab 99 kombi prototype and then treat it as a cheap banger. Probably the cars are going to be restored and then driven to different car shows.

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    kochje said on January 15, 2012

    Anatov; here is your chance to buy an important part of D-Saab without all the hassle from EIB and Swedish Government.
    GO FOR IT.

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    erik93b said on January 15, 2012

    I would like to know how things are going with innovatum.
    And if there are any other that want and can save the complete museum.
    Have Tim not any contact with them?
    All I know is what swedish newspapers are writing. Nearly no information from here…
    It is looking very bad to me.

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    saim said on January 15, 2012

    Why not starting another list of Saabfriends who would be ready to save the museum by paying a yearly fee for it. And show it her on SU, and every reader can see it and sign for it!
    I simply can´t believe this chance is over… :-(

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