{"id":108,"date":"2007-02-24T21:24:46","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T01:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=108"},"modified":"2007-02-24T21:24:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T01:24:46","slug":"saab-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/108","title":{"rendered":"Saab 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1lJQzrWprQE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nOne of the best rides I ever got back in my hitchhiking days was a short one &#8211; one town to the next one over, here in NH &#8211; in an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saab_96\">old Saab<\/a>. It was powered by their three cylinder two-stroke engine, sounded like a pack of angry chainsaws (and smelled like one too) and was driven by a tiny woman with a salt and pepper braid about 3 feet long. She pulled over, I hopped in &#8211; noticed the box full of cans of two-stroke oil in the back seat &#8211; and we passed a pleasant 10 minute ride talking about cars and who can remember what else. Pointless reminiscence inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/metacool.typepad.com\/metacool\/2007\/02\/unabashed_gearh.html\">metacool<\/a> &#8211; also, check out his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/95819024@N00\/\">Flikrstream<\/a> (this is not a Saab!):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/95819024@N00\/\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/95819024@N00\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/73\/215652621_6d6209845a_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Later &#8211;<\/strong> I can&#8217;t believe my friend Eliza&#8217;s pea soup green 96 slipped my mind &#8211; what a good car!<br \/>\n<strong>Even later &#8211;<\/strong> I remembered another great set of Saab pics driving home tonight &#8211; Coop&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/positiveapeindex.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/on-road-to-la-carerra-day-5.html\">La &#8217;06 Carrera Panamericana<\/a>. Click through and scroll down just a bit. Check out those Minilite wheels (and that chainsaw exhaust)! More info from el equipo Saabpearl Svenska <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saabpearl.se\/index_en.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best rides I ever got back in my hitchhiking days was a short one &#8211; one town to the next one over, here in NH &#8211; in an old Saab. It was powered by their three cylinder &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}