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Originally Posted by cmac2012
I liked my 1967 Saab 96. Had a V4 and a weak transaxle. I wish I could’ve experienced one of the three cylinder two stroke models, but I never even heard one run let alone rode in or drove one.
But my favorite car has to have been my ‘87 BMW 325i E30. Bought it in ‘02, sold it in ‘18 to some kid who wanted to restore it. I had nursed it from 214K up to 450K approx. It had an electric gremlin that I couldn’t find. I had to get rid of it, I had too many vehicles (4) for my shop parking spaces.
I am pretty fond of my 300SDL however. It’s a different kind of exciting than the Bimmer.
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For what it's worth.....
I used to help a guy install after market A/Cs in cars in 1967. We got to where we could put in an entire unit in less than two hours. He got paid $40 per installation and I just got to help out.
To put that in perspective if you made $20 for an eight hour shift you were doing well. He was pulling in about $120 a day on average, but he only worked (mostly) during the summer when people were buying A/C units.
Anyway, we did a lot of SAABs. The first Sonnets had the three cylinder two stroke and it got killed by emissions and had to go to a V-4 from Ford. At least the ones were worked on did.
I drove a numer of the two strokes from the dealer to the shop and then later the four stroke. I never noticed any difference in performance but then I was always taking it easy since these were customers cars and not mine.