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@@Driven_By_History I just checked out your Channel, glad to have found another Sonett enjoyer! Yeah it hurts me to see it like this too. And it hurts me even more to scrap it considering it's rarity but I don't feel too bad anymore. I have much bigger plans than just a parts car for it. I'll fill you in on a secret for my upcoming plans. My blue Sonett was in a pretty bad front end collision back in the day. The firewall is pushed back a good three or four inches and the motor mounts are bent off to the side. The nose of that car is twisted up so badly it would take too much work to get it straight. But the floors are immaculate, it doesn't even need the usual new rockers. On the other hand this orange car is held together by a single rocker and flexes when I get in it so I can confidently say the tub is toast. I would love to fix it but the metal work is so far gone you would basically need a donor car… however the nose is perfect and I've already checked the measurements, the engines exactly where it's supposed to be. So I'm going to disassemble the orange and blue cars at the firewall and weld the blue rear half onto the front orange half. I've already figured out which spot welds I need to drill out and I'm pretty confident I can just swap the nose over. Conveniently this would also save the orange car instead which has all its Vin tags and a cooler license plate.

There is a subsonic there are fiberglass cars and if I'm remembering correctly it actually had a V4 Ford motor in it

Its the coolest ugly car in the world...

@@johnnydail399 Yeah, they only made about 8,000 of that particular model. It's a weird little car. It's a tub style chassis with a fiberglass body on top, so it's basically just a factory kit car. It's not missing plug wires or anything. It truly is a V4 engine, one of the very few ever made. It's a Ford Taunus 1.7 which is the four cylinder little brother of the Ford Cologne V6. It's mainly a European engine, but you'll find them in generators and tractors in the US too.

@@kaostheory3272 yep👍

@@GT1900garage Yeah, it's definitely got some ....Er, better angles.( it is so ugly).

If you think that's funny...The other day I was working on it, sitting in the passenger seat and it gave out and fell onto the driveway with me in it. I wish I had gotten a video of that.

Thank you. I was talking with someone about Sonetts a while ago and I just remember them saying that no one ever just has one. Couldn't be more true.

I'll keep you posted.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway brahh👍👍👍🙏

I had actually never seen a Sonett in person until I bought mine. This orange car was actually listed for 500 bucks but I'm a shrewd negotiator. I thought my blue car was the cheapest one in the country but now I've outdone myself with the orange one. Interestingly enough I've actually seen GT prices increasing. For whatever reason the Corvette is getting real popular again so all of the “baby Corvette” cars are back in the spotlight. I've also seen magazines call the Sonett a baby Corvette as well but no increase in price. I don't think most people who are interested in any size Corvette are going to want anything to do with a low horsepower, weird engine, front wheel drive Swedish import. Your last video was great btw!

@@Ludicrous_Speedway if my memory Serves me right It was because i see one of your vids that i Buy my sonnett

Yeah I never got the impression I was supposed to be in there, the manual just said hit it with a hammer until it came out. The amount of times it references a block of wood is hilarious. I'm definitely not putting those cotter pins back in, I have a different plan. Thanks for sticking around!

Yeah they are pretty funny lookin

Couldn't have said it better myself, aside from cursing at it that is :) Whenever I get around to it I think my plan is to have the two hard lines from the floor dead end into a distribution block with soft lines going to the, well other soft lines but the external ones. Even though I don't see myself fiddling with those brake lines too often I don't like them and I want to make my own. Those sheet metal dimples are also really sharp. Thanks for sticking around Gafrers, it's always fun seeing where else I can find you on YT.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway Nice Plan.

Thanks for the episode. Is there any episode/ time stamp to see the rollbar problem?

Not yet. It'll get featured as a side project in a later episode. The problem is it's just so difficult to get to the fasteners that hold the roll bar on. After a few hours of split knuckles, I was able to get them loose enough that I could slip a hacksaw blade under the roll bar and just cut it off. I'm currently drilling out the last bolt stuck in there. Thanks for sticking around!

Pretty easy, all things considered. Finding some of those bump stops on the other hand, not so much.

Cool, I believe the top half of the suspension is pretty close to the 96, I would definitely advocate for finding the skinniest spring compressor you can. Hammering in that big universal compressor was not fun. I think the ones that are like two fingers would work the best.

Yeah, plenty of games. Interestingly enough, my main squeeze hunt showdown works on Linux, but it's in some sort of weird unsupported accidental state. But my real problem is all the crappy software i Need to use for college. I got a bone to pick with Autodesk products to say the least and I'm too lazy to dual boot or deal with a VM. That might change soon. Next time I have to dig into this thing and start all over I'll probably migrate my windows to my crappyest drive and Use the rest for EndeavorOS.

Thank you. I'd say I have a pretty solid shot of finishing this thing by the end of the year. Well, it'll never really be finished, But I should at least have it driving by the end of the year.

Yeah, don't worry about it. I've been through two fresh installs since then. One was just last week.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway had to give crap.. lol

I would have loved to not have to do any of that, But most recently I had a Clean installation of some drivers fail part way, you know, after deleting everything. And then being stuck unable to recover them. So that was great. If the front end of the world didn't run on Windows, I would switch to Linux in a heartbeat.

Thanks

You won't have to turn on the heat, that's for sure!

Thanks again!

By the way Reedstemen Is legit he do me a solid With the front glass👍👍

A little too much lol.

Yeah, We've been talking.

Hey Man hope youre doing good on a relates note about this reeds told me youre putting some spacers in your car so how much It Is costing you? Do you going to change the brakes too?

Thanks! All things considered, I'm doing great. College is going great. Admittedly, a lot of my projects have ground to a standstill. it's regularly over 110 degrees. So, not a lot of work getting done outside. You heard correctly, But that's all so far in the future. The only thing I've done is dream about it. I don't have any concrete plans or numbers yet. Sorry.

Hey @Murphyslawfarm long time no see! Glad you like it, thanks for stickin' around!

@@Ludicrous_Speedway I am hooked on this build 😂👍

You and me both, thanks for sticking around.

I have 8 TB of footage and an almost photographic memory, I'll manage, somehow. I'm excited to do something different than the typical cyberpunk. Don't get me wrong, I love the art cars, the Chimera Miata comes to mind. But the real meaning behind that art style is by any means necessary. My car won't have junk hanging off it just because it looks cool, it will also be because I don't have any room for an oil cooler under the front clip.

Thanks for stickin' around.

Feels a little high too all things considered, at least I have it lol.

I know, they look pretty good from what I've seen elsewhere. There is one hole in the driver side rocker from where it fell off a jack stand back in the Jurassic period and the usual spot where the battery tries to escape from, but other than that it's clean. Happy to get away with minimal patching!

Or I could just give it to you: Ludicrous_Speedway_Pit_lane@protonmail.com I split this text up just because I've seen my own stuff lost. It's annoying that's for sure.

Thanks! Will do! Actually, I'm working on the second half of this video right now. We'll have to see if everyone finds custom magnetic and G10 heat beds as interesting as the first video.

I do have a plan that would involve getting more intimate with this transmission in the future, so I'd like to do it myself, but outsourcing it is certainly an option. I actually emailed him a few weeks back about successfully replicating the lock cylinder for the ignition. And I was curious if any other saab people would be interested in that. I haven't heard back, but it wouldn't hurt to try again.

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind when it all goes back together.

Me too, thanks for sticking around!

They've certainly won me over.

@@Ludicrous_Speedway Same

That's a great idea, I hadn't thought of that. I'll look Into getting some casters. I do have to admit I am a little further along than the videos would indicate. I've had the chassis stripped for a few months now. Only things left in it are the pedals and handbrake, the pins are very stuck. But I'm sure I'll get them out soon. At the moment I have it high centered on the steel cart my lathe came on. But sometimes it falls off. I haven't weighed mine, but 400 pounds sounds high, my brother and I can carry it around pretty easily. I'll look into that. I'm planing to hot tank the engine and have the tub sandblasted in the next month. I think I'll build a rotisserie though, I was planning on mounting it using the bars for the bumpers, does that seem like a good idea?

@@Ludicrous_Speedway That will work too, just brace it well as the metal on these as you know is super thin. I've even seen people make a rotisserie for them out of two engine stands at each end and just make a bracket off the engine stand spider.

Thank you! Comments like this make my day! I really hope that someday I'll be that "Sonett guy." Yeah my body has been sitting in the sun for the past 6 months, so I imagine it will be warped beyond measure or so pliable it fits on anything.

Thank you!

Thanks again!