Chaos, mud-flaps, and the Saab 95

do you Miss the white winters? Then you have Friday, december 6, 1985. Or you don't. The photo here gives a small taste of the storms that crippled large parts of the country over the weekend. It can hardly be called a ditch running most of what we see, but the caption claims that more than 70 traffic accidents were reported in the Stockholm area. Most minor crashes and cars spinning of the track, as well as a lot of the drivers who had engine problems.

with the wet snow, which made for both road, rail, which is a lot. In the west of Sweden, had more than 50.000 households have been without electricity for the past day and a force of about 1,000 in the works to kick-start the power grid. Wind speeds of 20 meters per second, was and from 20 to 30 centimetres of wet snow fell at the airport, göteborg Landvetter airport.

Enough about the weather, the more cars. Whether or not there is a breakdown or went off the road, we will let be unsaid, but the image of the man in a coat and a hat, in any case, to help with his Saab 95. An old lastvänlig model, which was launched in 1959 and remained in production until 1978, seven years before the picture was taken.

< Vinterovädret were paralyzed rush hour traffic in the DN on december 6, 1985 .

and the rubber stötfångarhornen do that, we will identify a car's model year is between 1969 and 1973. In 1976-namely, to 95 mm, the awkward, and the impact-absorbing bumpers from the model-99, and the new licence plates, which replace the former with the county abbreviations, introduced in 1973. The letters (A) to (G) portionerades out in the first, and the combinations of three letters and three numbers have survived until the present day. In 2019, the first of the plates where the last number is replaced by a letter of the alphabet.

the Police in the picture that will come out, in any case, there is a newer car and have to rely on the Volvo 244. If not, the latest design in the year 1983.

the Splash is, in all cases, both the cars are a legal requirement, which would remain in force until 1995. Maybe there are more of you out there who do not have these for more than a the whites in the winter?

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