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...SAAB started off as an airplane company--hence the name: Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB), was founded in 1937, its primary aim was to meet the need for a domestic military aircraft industry in Sweden (WWII was looming on the historical horizon).
...my Dad owned two of the small SAAB-95s: a white one with the 3-cylinder 2-stroke engine, and a second, blue one, with the 'Ford Industrial' street-sweeper V4 engine.
...the unkind "joke" about them was: "...owning a SAAB was a SOB story."
...they, however, DID make a darn good jet fighter, the VIGGEN!
Last edited by gone-ot; 12-22-2009 at 08:20 PM..
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