Saab museum collection for sale ...

ahal

This one comes with a serious fap - warning

http://www.delphi.se/filearchive/5/5935/Bilder_pictures%20Saab%20Car%20Museum%202012-01-15.pdf

G Luxel

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1071826_more-than-100-cars-from-saab-museum-listed-in-bankruptcy-sale.

couldnt find the link but found this one instead.....I cant see all those saabs leaving sweden....thats like the Government selling the Book of Kells...although thats probably a possiblity..........

ahal

G Luxel wrote: »

http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1071826_more-than-100-cars-from-saab-museum-listed-in-bankruptcy-sale.

couldnt find the link but found this one instead.....

Yup, all links to the receivers have gone dead. Maybe they've gone bankrupt?!

G Luxel wrote: »

thats like the Government selling the Book of Kells...although thats probably a possiblity..........

:pac:

Brings this to mind:

bijapos

That collection deserves to be kept together, and I hope it is. I suppose a few of them could be sold but the vast majority are unique. There are enough seriously wealthy people in Sweden, it will be interesting to see what happens to them.

Some interesting stuff there like the joystick car, Mercedes experimented with this idea too in the 90's. Its a pity a few of them were never launched, such as the early estates, or some of the later concept cars, but I guess in the latter years with GM ownership adventurous ideas got squashed.

squonk

It's so nice to see the joystick car again. I have great memories of hiding a copy of Car Magazine back around 1988 in my school book in class reading about this! it absolutely fired my imagination and I thought at the time we'd be almost having our cars doing the driving for us by 2010! It's funny to see how things actually turn out. Back then I thought SAABs were the coolest bloody car you could get and I still do, except for the rubbish that GM shoved them into producing. I was a bit disappointed in 1992 when I saw my first new style 900 and totally demotivated when I saw the replacement booted model. GM have a lot to answer for. I really hope that collection stays together.

Redrocket

http://www.saabsunited.com/2012/01/p4-west-saab-museum-saved.html

bijapos

Redrocket wrote: »

http://www.saabsunited.com/2012/01/p4-west-saab-museum-saved.html

The city of Trollhättan, SAAB AB and The Wallenberg foundations – those are the ones who make sure that the Saab Museum will stay in Trollhättan. Together they have paid 28 million SEK for the whole collection.
A lot has happened since Saab filed for bankruptcy in december. Two bankruptcy administrators were appointed and later on a third joined in.
They quickly realized that more money was needed to keep the bankruptcy proceedings alive and quickly it was established that the Saab Cars Museum could bring in the first millions.
And now it’s a done deal, the museum will remain in Trollhättan. The running costs of the museum, will be handled by the city of Trollhättan and Västragötalandsregionen (regional government). P4 West have previous reported that the region, the city and a collection of Saab-veterans wanted to take over the running of the museum.

Nice to see some good news regarding classics for a change.

Redrocket

28,000,000.00 SEK = 3,167,737.40 EUR
not bad