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1977 SAAB 99 GL

1977 SAAB 99 in The Fly, Movie, 1986

Class: Cars, Sedan — Model origin: — Made for: USA

1977 SAAB 99 GL

00:26:58 Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase

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Author	Message
antp ◊ 2006-03-26 17:22
DAF555 ◊ 2006-03-26 18:35	1977 99 GL
rjluna2 ◊ 2007-06-20 03:32	Made for USA. US specified quad headlight.
DAF555 ◊ 2007-08-13 09:27
stronghold ◊ 2008-11-14 01:49
chicomarx ◊ 2011-05-08 19:19	Assembled in Mechelen (Malines) Belgium, which was news to me. But it's difficult to find the exact production years.
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-05-08 22:14	Now that is interesting Now, I really need to pull out my VIN poster from SAAB I got it from 3 party SAAB repair shop
chicomarx ◊ 2011-05-09 17:23	I've checked SAAB 99 and 900 - The Complete Story by Lance Cole and he writes: Quote In 1973-74 US sales of the EMS were going well (...) at this time the first cars from the Belgian factory at Malines appeared, notching up 5,867 body shells amid 41,124 in Sweden and 15,646 in Finland - serious production numbers at last. That's all I can find. -- Last edit: 2011-05-09 17:27:46
dsl ◊ 2011-05-09 17:47	rjluna2 wrote .... my VIN poster from SAAB This any use http://www.saabnet.ru/org/saab_vin.htm ?
dsl ◊ 2011-05-09 17:56	Saab Malines/Mechelen: 1] Link to "saabworld.net" 2] http://www.saabforum.nl/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=87568 (but it's in foreign so I have no clue what it says - it could be tips for cooking chocolate cake with some Saab pictures and I'd never know. We have an English expression for something totally incomprehensible as being written in "double Dutch".) -- Last edit: 2011-05-09 17:56:28
chicomarx ◊ 2011-05-09 18:30	They're debating the existence of a Saab factory in Rotterdam, since the Saabmuseum confirmed Saabs were produced in Holland as well as Belgium. Interestingly, someone has found the exact production numbers of Mechelen/Malines: IMA, Mechelen 1959-1960: 608 stuks 276 S93 + 332 S96 Brondeel Antwerpen 1967-1971: 2016 stuks S96 Saab-IMA, Mechelen 1973-1978: 24821 stuks S99 (stuks = pcs) IMA also built Mercedes-Benz /vehicle_142802-Mercedes-Benz-200-Universal-W110-1966.html and the Saab archive is now at Mercedes. Thanks dsl!
rjluna2 ◊ 2011-05-14 16:21	The only way we can tell if this is Belgium assembly if we can see this VIN My parent car (the 1977 model) was from Trollhättan Assembly line #2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trollh%C3%A4ttan_Assembly
night cub ◊ 2011-05-14 19:27	I thought all the US-bound Saabs were manufactured in Sweden.
chicomarx ◊ 2011-05-14 19:43	This Canadian "barn find" is where I got the picture from: Link to "www.saabhistory.com" Apparently the way to tell them apart is the amount of rust... "wow, a belgian 99 that hasnt turned into a big giant pile of rust? didnt know they existed anymore! lol" "hopefully it will get here from Austrailia before the body rusts away ( it is from Belgium)" "My friend has a Belgian-built 99, and they say they are more prone to rust than the Swedish built ones, I believe due to inferior zinc-coating. There's your fun fact for the day." and many great references like that... You were lucky, rjluna.
chicomarx ◊ 2011-05-14 20:00	...and this one looks quite rusty for 9 years old. stronghold wrote
Alpha23 ◊ 2021-03-11 23:07	00:03:14 00:03:48 00:26:49 00:26:58 01:07:19 01:07:30 -- Last edit: 2021-03-11 23:08:58

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