Saab Farm is back! The Minkeey Benz was replaced with a Imola Red Saab 9000 Aero! Pictures to be posted soon!
Dean Chapman says a solo
seat solves all those 'problems' and allows me to maintain my
membership in GROSS - Hobbes approves. This
the vechile that started it all, fire engine red, solid 'no flat'
tires, and of course the stunt wheels for tricks as shown! Notice
the playing card and clothes pin on the back wheel - all the possible
options. Hurry up taking the picture Mom! And no sizzy helmet
either. If they would have had helmets back then, of course Mom
would have stapled it on.
This
is Grandpa and my sister with true 4x4 action. The wagon was red.
Hey this proves its not my fault I was raised this way!
The truckster and the new Minkey! "Do you have a leesance
for your minkey?" Inspector Clouseau
The new Minkey showing off!
"Yir Minkey is very clean", direct ignition, turbo Woo
Hoo. Dean's latest a Saab
9000 Aero I
even bought it from Andrew's ouch! "Well they did made some
decent changes up there", so I'll gave it another chance.
Oh ya, bad battery on day two of ownership so I drove it back
up there and they replaced it and bulb on a side mark light.......
"well they did made some decent changes up there". Stay
tuned. Latest update: the headlight issue pointed out at purchase
dim bulb and light going out on bumps was a repair issue - $70
for new head light harness. Phoenix had it diagnosed in under
five minutes. Monge rewired the head unit properly, and added
a power filter - no more extra sounds!
Dean Chapman's Minkey-Benz or "BMO" for
2004. I can't live by SUV alone. I love the seats, climate control,
rear wheel drive, and cruising at 80 mph - but it does not corner
like the Saab SPG. I even caught myself looking at an SPG - what
the heck am I thinking? This car gave me gold tooth and two trips
to the hospital........
The Truckster at the Pines
Well its offical Dean
Chapman's Saab Farm is now history - The Minkeey went home with
Cyril in August of 2003. Its just me and the Family Truckster poking down the road!
I never thought I could live without a turbo and a Momo steering
wheel ........
Well this
is my first Saab known as Pukey Blue. The final buff job, proceeding
the Blue Coral disaster and the smelly black Macco '10 yard' paint
job.
85
SPG aka "Little Black Sambo". My first SPG! I loved
Pukey's 8V and ground clearance, and the silver beast's modified
computer and psycho turbo boost - but SPG is the ultimate!
The Minkeey
on the way home
October
1999 SPG Safari to deepest darkest Champagne - Urbana. ...Ya,Ya,
thats right by Chicago.. We eventually got there at 10:45pm! The
naming contest has a winner - its now called the "Monkey"
or say it like Peter Sellars "Minkeey" as in monkey
on your back. It took nearly two years to remove previous owners
ignorant use of bailing wire, duct tape, and junior high school
type brazing. Recent wacko repairs - H4 reflectors, new clutch,
new radiator, new cyclinder head etc, new head gasket, ball joints,
new leather seat covers, heat shield, hatch struts, speakers,
Yokohama AVID H4s replacing the lumpy 'blem' dunlap A-20s, glove
box door (hard to believe but true) etc. The Monkey features a
cup holder in the top stop, with a relocated Sony CD to the proper
cockpit placement. Bilsteins. And most recently a beautiful yellow
D type Momo steering wheel! A big thanks to SAS, and the Phoenix
for parts and repairs. The Minkeey went home with Cyril in August
of 2003 after he lost the Silver Beast - he forgot where he parked
it.......... The Minkey was recently in an accident and is looking
ugly outside Koobville, maybe it will be towed during snow emergency...........
The official SPG Safari Chase and Thermos Testing Vehicle -
the Silver Beast. Cyril Koob is crabby cause the CheeseHead wedding
party kept him up all night! Cyril so enjoyed testing his thermos
seal and the soup absorbing carpet - that he bought the Silver
Beast.
Dean Chapman's
Silver Beast on stage 3 at Headwaters ProRally in its happier
days.
I love
this yellow truck, I want one. Notice the Silver Beast?!
If you have one of these you are a lucky duck. Built for the Australian
market it offers metal body work and some other unusual features.
I think it would make a great Rally car - If you have one these
call me!
What can say, I had one of my best
weekends of all time with this silly thing, it handles like mud,
and gosh darn it people are always coming up to look at it when
you gas up and bug ya big time - but its still not a Saab. My
boss had one in blue with a black top. His new one is in Gunmetal,
with the big engine.
The Olds 98 diesel, ever noticed that it matched the boat?!!
Fran Sagert on a snowy opener at Deer Lake - thats 27 degrees
kids, the truckster, Frank Whistles old trailer, and the Boat.
My first real motorcycle was CB750C, a wonderful example of
a 1981 burger bike!
CB900F in my usual configuration.
CB900F October at Grand Marias, Fran's wedding anniversy.
an actual "Ronny Reagan Tariff" bike CB 900F/CB900RS.
Yes sports fans this is the very bike Dean Chapman rode to graduation
in '92. For those confused I had three of these models same color....,
with 4 different quarter fairings, black and chrome case savers.
I pretty much stopped commuting in the late 90's, after almost
15 years burning up the roadway 6 months a year - half of it was
the nerve damage from 1994, the other half I'm just not convinced
I had another motorcycle accident "in me ........" I
was sitting outside the Grand View Theater and a couple, cute
guys, said "man, he should quit while he is a head, but nice
jacket" something clicked as I was hobbling and hopping into
the theater. But I still have my jacket - hummm an old BMW cafe
model or a Concours might work...... Girlz I still can't apologize
for messing up your hair - you know who you are - I care about
your brain cells each and everyone!
Whoops!
Whoops continued, ever drive 200 miles with bent forks??!!!!