The Pixel looks like a nice phone. Congratulations!

Mazel tov!

She decided a year ago.

Home phone rings…

Wife: 916 area code…that's Sacramento

Me: Probably election-related

Wife: doesn't answer phone

@kdfrawg In any case, original or not, it's still a damn nice 96. Better than I've seen in a very long time, since they're a bit thin on the ground over here.

@kdfrawg Judging from the curved windshield, I'd say that's an early 99. But looks right for that model, though.

@kdfrawg The upper portions are OK, but there are an awful lot of buttons on the lower portion. Could be a socialist-era home fix for sagging material, I suppose.

@kdfrawg It is, innit? Could almost be from a contemporary road test. While I generally prefer stock steering wheels, the Moto-Lita is nice, too. Not too sure about the interior door panels, though. They don't look stock to me.

@kdfrawg Can't say that I have. Looks like he hasn't been on Twitter or ADN, either.

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This is interesting to me. Apart from the fact that I have always wanted a V-4 Saab 96 of precisely this vintage, the fact that it was ostensibly originally delivered to Czechoslovakia is…odd. Presumably, anyone in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic who was buying a Swedish car must have been what the East Germans called a Parteibonzen.

http://bringatrailer.com/listing/1968-saab-96-v4-deluxe/