Making money- undercover
The 900 has been parked for weeks with its car cover on. I was traveling, and now that I’m back I’ve been busy enough and lazy enough to just leave it covered. No using the 900 means I don’t have new posts for the Saablog. Luisa took that phot of the car under cover… can you believe it?
However, I did get snow tires for the V70R a few weeks ago, mounted on new rims. I swapped them on to the R, which meant I needed to find a place to store the R’s second set of wheels. There’s a little alcove in the garage which is perfect for storing wheels and tires, but it was FULL. In addition to the all-season Volvo wheels/tires, and the autocross wheels/tires for the 900, I also have a set of V70R OEM Pirelli Pzero Rosso summer tires (not mounted on the rims) and I had a set of tires that were on the 900 when I bought it almost 2 years ago, the were Grand Spirit Aqua Flow GTX tires, totally cheapo tires but with a lot of tread. I took them off of the 900 within 2 weeks of buying it.
“>”>When I went to put the Volvo’s all-season wheel/tires in the alcove, I couldn’t fit them because I had the Pirellis and the Grand Spirits in the alcove; I could only fit 11 tires in there. So the crappy Grand Spirits had to go. I listed them on Craigslist for $25/set on Sunday, and yesterday I got a call from a guy wanting to buy them for his ‘93 Grand Am *shudder*. Whatever, the odd guy (think Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld, but more strange) came and loaded them into his FlexCar Honda Element and gave me $25. I’ll log the money in the Saab’s ledger; and now I have more space in my garage. The 900 earned $25 without even taking its car cover off.
NOTE: I apologize for the crappy photo layout on this post. I posted it from our new MacBook and evidently I can’t figure out how to properly manipulate the photos in the crappy Safari browser.
