Get Autoblog in your Google feed 99 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 06 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 38 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 22 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 27 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 20 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 43 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 08 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 31 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 09 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 33 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 26 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 36 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 25 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 39 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 13 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 41 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 15 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 45 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 16 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 18 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 11 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 07 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 05 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin 02 – 1972 Saab 96 in English wrecking yard – photo by Murilee Martin More than a thousand years ago, Scandinavian invaders conquered much of northern England and Danes came to rule the old Roman city they called Jórvík . The Danelaw is long gone, but I visited that city (now known as York ) a couple of months back and found some ancient Scandinavian treasure in a junkyard scrapyard there : a Saab 96 , as rusty as a long-buried iron Viking sword but still recognizable.
We saw a 1973 Saab 95 , the wagon version of this car, in a California boneyard last fall. 1973 was the last year for the 95 and 96 in the United States, but 96 sales continued in the United Kingdom through 1976 .
England is damp year-round and they have a generous hand with the road salt there in winter. The level of corrosion on this car would impress even a Michigan resident.
The amount of vegetation, rodent droppings and moss is impressive. It must have sat outdoors, maybe half-buried, for decades.
Still, I found very few cars built before 2000 during my scrapyard explorations in England (with some notable exceptions ) and these old Saabs are cool, so I photographed it.
At first, the 96 was built with a three-cylinder two-stroke engine. For 1967, Saab began installing the Ford Taunus V4 engine in these cars , and that’s what’s here.
The odometer shows that it reached nearly 100,000 miles (or maybe 200,000 or 700,000 miles— it’s impossible to tell with a five-digit odometer).
Even in freezing Yorkshire winter weather, the mildew in this interior could be smelled from a couple of rows away.
Restorable? Not in this condition, though the 96 has many fans in Britain .
Would you put the horse behind the cart? Of course not, which is why you wanted a front-wheel-drive Saab 96!
