I stopped by Mike’s in Stoney Creek the other day. Mike’s is only a few kilometres down the road (5.5 km to the east) from the start of the Trillium Drive, and open Sundays from 9 AM (though you should check with them in case they aren’t following those hours). So you could check them out before meeting for the drive. The Saabs are right on the way in; but you’ll use up a good fifteen or twenty minutes signing in and walking past the closed section.
Rustproofing didn’t work too well on this 9-3.
Miscellaneous interior, and a trashed 900S which was a distance away down the row from other Saabs.
9-5 sedans are popular junkyard cars these days.
If I recall correctly, the rear filler panel from this convertible is on my 900 hatchback. It came from Mike’s, for sure.
Red painted calipers won’t keep your car out of the junkyard. Were there some non-Saab rims on the back, requiring a tape hub adaptor?
The convertible has been picked over pretty well.
Nothing says “uh oh” than the trunk of a 9-5 full of old oil filters.
Neither RustCheck, CAA Plus, nor Cthuhlu could keep this 9-5 from being sideswiped and junked. The Elder Ones are still resting….thankfully.
Sideswipe was the side I didn’t take a picture of.
A good rule for junkyard hunting is that you have to go often, and grab stuff from new arrivals, before other people grab them for you. Any car in a junkyard winds up being trashed in short order–and they were sent to the junkyard in the first place. The best cars are well-kept ones that have been in a collision and written off, which doesn’t take much with old Saabs. The worst cars are those that the owner neglected and then sent to the junkyard to be rid of.
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Stoppie!
Any car in a junkyard winds up being trashed in short order. – Eric Ludy