Saab History

Custom Saab 9000 Convertible Project

Saab 9000 ConvertibleSaab 9000 Convertible

If you’ll recall,  we already wrote about Saab 9000 Convertible concept by Valmet Automotive called  “Fivebow”That concept car is preserved at the Uusikaupunki Automuseo at the Valmet factory and not much information has been published about it so far.

but this is a completely different concept – a custom rebuild of a Saab 9000i, done by Björn Frykholm. This The 9000 cabbrio was presented in an old Motorsport (Bilsport) magazine from 1995.   The condition of today know only the owner,  but Björn Frykholm built this car as a 50th birthday present to himself.

Custom Saab 9000 cabrio - the proportions and design is really good
Custom Saab 9000 cabrio – the proportions and design is really good

The entire frame is reinforced, The rear doors welded back and front doors was extended. The canopy is a modified originally from Ford Escort. The Interior are custom made, with folding 9000 front seats and a custom rear. However, as can be seen from the pictures, Everything is Saab original design and provide an original in terms of impressions.

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Saab 9000i Cabrio interior
Saab 9000i Cabrio interior

This was also not Björn Frykholms first cabrio-building based on a Saab. He had previously built an award-winning Saab cabrio based on a Saab 900 and several other cheeky Saabs, during the 80’s. The Saab 9000 Convertible project began in 1993 and was completed in 1995.

Saab 900 Turbo cabrio, also by Björn Frykholm
Saab 900 Turbo cabrio, also by Björn Frykholm from 1985

For more pictures definitely visit the mentioned Saab turboclub forum, there are more of this.

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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