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Wheeler Dealers: 1973 Saab 96

Saab 96

A busted clutch, rusted metalwork and a lawnmower like engine… Ant Anstead has his work cut out and Mike Brewer is on the hunt for parts.

Mike and Ant try to arouse the passion of the Saab enthusiast community by restoring a rusty, non-driving 1973 Saab 96 to its past glory. Will their restoration pass muster with one of the car world’s most passionate fan bases?

By the end of last year, a Discovery UK TV channel was broadcasting an episode about restoration of this 1973 Saab 96. Now, Discovery channel has released this episode on their Youtube channel and you can view complete episode it below:

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This episode of Wheeler Dealer was filmed at this year’s SAAB Owners’ Convention in August 2017. The Wheeler Dealer crew brought this yellow 96 they restored to see how it held up under the scrutiny of real SAABers.

If you are like we and get excited to see ANY SAAB, even for a second on the screen, this will be an entire episode of SAAB.

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Really , great episode and restore, amazing rust metal fab and windshield fit… guys are talented.

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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