SAAB Sonett Kit-Cars?

The Sonett I. It seems that the molds are still in existence, there are 2 replicas made after the 6 originals . See

Currently, the owner of Sonett I #4 wrote a book about it, on sale on Ebay, item nos 4589485762, 8352693063, 8352694499, 8352695172.

As I am told they made new molds and destroyed them after the two replicas was made.

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It looks pretty similar in size, and probably weight, to the Fisher Fury I'm currently building. The most popular engines for those tend to be around 130 to 160BHP, making for a very fast car. There are a few running silly power from Cosworth turbo engines, which does certainly make for huge straight-line acceleration, but these cars generally turn out to be slower around a track than, say, a well sorted Rover K-series.

If you're after a really quick track car, then a bike engine would probably be the way to go. You might have trouble finding a Saab bike to take it from though!

Cheers,

Colin.

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Colin Stamp at snipped-for-privacy@stamp.plus.com wrote on 13/11/2005 10:20:

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Gosh! The are similar, particularly from the side.

There are SAAB engined BSAs around :)

I've fancied a Fury for ages - they're lovely cars. If you want too see one in the flesh, get yourself down to Exeter next weekend:

We're going to be there on Saturday, so if you're going, let me know.

And since the side-pods are separate, you could replace them with louvered aly to make it even more similar...

I didn't know that.

Hehe, everyone else tries bike engined cars. It just had to be Saab that tries out car engined bikes :o)

Cheers,

Colin.

The SAABSA, a BSA bike with a `61 SAAB two stroke engine, owned by Bob Sinclair, formerly of SAAB USA;

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That's no good.

Here's the deal, I am sure there are blueprints out there for ALL of Saab's lineups, so molds, etc. can be created and spec'd from those drawings today. So I guess it's not a problem if molds are created and destroyed.

SG

They must have been pretty quick bikes for their day. Interesting that one has the engine transverse whilst the other doesn't. I wonder what that bloke's doing with the Tech II...

Cheers,

Colin.

That "bloke" is Bud Clark, a vintage SAAB guru. He builds fuel injected Ford V4 turbo engines, e.g. for the Sonett. He also owns a Saab Quantum. See the whole image page + text at

MH,

Bob Sinclair wasn't just of SAAB-SCANIA of America Inc., he was the president from 1979-1992

SG