Don't see these very often....

[Terry Jessee]

This is a Burago 1/24 Saab 900 that I redid to make it less like a toy. Yeah, I know, I got the wheels on catty-whompus.

Fun, though.

Terry

[gray07]

Turned out cool.

[hotrod59f100]

Now I like that. Good job

[GeeBee]

very nice, hard to believe it started out as a diecast, I do like a nice Saab ....

[Harry P.]

So what is it you did? How about some details...

[Brizio]

Nice! I remember those, I had a white one with yellow wheels. I think it was supposed to be a Rallye car...

[Rob Hall]

Nice...my sister had a 900 Turbo in a color like that..was a neat car.

[parki]

Nice

[chrismooney]

Great build.... I so want a 1-1 SAAB 900 im drooling

[Terry Jessee]

Nice! I remember those, I had a white one with yellow wheels. I think it was supposed to be a Rallye car...

That's what I started with. I stripped it and repainted it, redid the interior and added detail, and installed wheels from the parts box. Don't remember where the tires came from. Mostly, it's just a paint job. I never could get the doors to sit like I wanted them, so I glued them shut.

This was actually going to be an Aspen PD (Colorado) police cruiser. They actually used Saabs for a couple years. But something like decals or something got in the way, so I stripped the white repaint off it and redid it in this kind of tungsten silver color.

Mostly it was just a paint job. It went away on eBay years ago. Wish I could find another one to redo, but they seem to be pretty rare.

Terry

[Danno]

That's what I started with. I stripped it and repainted it, redid the interior and added detail, and installed wheels from the parts box. Don't remember where the tires came from. Mostly, it's just a paint job. I never could get the doors to sit like I wanted them, so I glued them shut.

This was actually going to be an Aspen PD (Colorado) police cruiser. They actually used Saabs for a couple years. But something like decals or something got in the way, so I stripped the white repaint off it and redid it in this kind of tungsten silver color.

Mostly it was just a paint job. It went away on eBay years ago. Wish I could find another one to redo, but they seem to be pretty rare.

Terry

Pitkin County Sheriff (Aspen) used them also. Late 70's-Early 80's. It was a promotional deal that a couple of Saab executives put together after a skiing junket (and lots of gormet five-star dining plus some high-test vino) in hopes of selling some Saabs. There was an advertising campaign, of course. But the whole "Saab-as-your-favorite-neighborhood-police-car" thing crashed into some Double Diamond moguls! LOL.

It was about the same time another famous Colorado law enforcement agency (Lakewood PD) was dabbling in enhanced public relations by calling its patrol officers "Public Safety Agents" and dressing them in blazers with no weapons or handcuffs, etc. showing. That experiment also went out in a blaze-of-no-glory, and the police-chief-disguised-as-a-public-relations-huckster had his fru-fru lunch handed to him in a designer Adam-12 lunchpail. (The more intoxicated miscreants often mistook officers on patrol as movie ushers or country club waiters ... it made for lots of extra issues no one needed.)

Ahhh ... such were the post-hippy days of softer law enforcement in the Rockies!