Saab’s Heritage Cars snaffled by the Bailiffs

The bailiffs have been in to the Saab Museum

Just like every other car maker with a lineage, Saab likes to make the most of its car-making history. So it has a museum with everything from the UrSaab to the Aero-X on display. And now, it has a little addition – stickers on all its cars from the Swedish bailiff saying Utmätt Gods - sequestered for debt.

It appears that bailiffs from Kronofogden – Swedish debt collectors – visited Saab’s museum on Tuesday, the day before Saab managed to overturn the previous decision not to grant it court protection, and slapped little stickers on all the exhibits proclaiming them seized assets.

Everything from the 1947 Saab 92 to the Aero-X by way of the 1985 Saab EV-1 has been stickered by the bailiffs with a view to flogging them off to cover the huge debts Saab has. But, for now, they’ve been stymied by the new court order.

Although it appears visitors to Saab’s Museum (open every day for a modest entrance fee of £6 – every little helps) will have to view the exhibits complete with sequestered stickers for the time being.

But even if Saab fails to complete its deal with the Chinese and get back on a viable footing, the Saab Collection may well be safe anyway.

The Mayor of Trollhattan – Saab’s home town – has said that if the bailiffs do get their sticky fingers on the Saab Collection, the local council will dig deep and buy it up.

But hopefully it won’t come to that. The small indignity of having a walking possession order on its exhibits in the museum is nothing compared to the indignities Saab has already suffered in the last few years, and the curiosity value may even bring in a few more punters.

But it’ll take a lot of extra punters to cover Saab’s current €150 million black hole.

By Cars UK