Photos of Saab 99s (1973, Rhode Island)

1973 Saab 99

We recently came across two impressive images of brand new Saab 99s taken in May 1973 at the shipping area called Fields Point in Providence, Rhode Island.

These two and four-door sedans were newly offloaded from the ships that brought them from Saab’s Swedish plants in Trollhättan, Södertälje, Linköping, Kirstenhamn and Nykoping, as well as the Valmet Automotive plant in Uusikaupunki, Finland, where they were manufactured.

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These pictures were just two of countless treasures located on the National Archives website, and they represent a sliver of the 15,981 photographs that were taken on 35mm color slides and as black and white prints and negatives as part of “Documerica,” an Environmental Protection Agency project that photographically documented subjects or areas of environmental concern in America between 1972 and 1977.

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Goran AničićNovember 12, 2015

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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.