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[Stuart]

Sorry, it's just a tease. I wondered what a classified by Bond might look like.

[marktmurphy]

You can pick one up quite easily; there's loads about- usually for

[Stuart]

Nice ad! Now I have to add something else to my list-of-things-I-want- but-probably-won't-get.

[sainttemplar]

its been a while since I read these but wasn't the Saab 9000 white?

[zencat]

The 9000, or the 900?

The one where talking about here is the 900 (from LR, FSS, ICE) and it was silver. The "Silver Beast." But if you mean the 9000, which Bond drives in some of the later books, I'm not sure Gardner ever says what color it is.

[sainttemplar]

Originally posted by sainttemplar
its been a while since I read these but wasn't the Saab 9000 white?

I remember the 900 was silver but I think in of the later books the Saab 9000 is white.Its mentioned in either Seafire or NSF..unless its the one he hires .From memeory and I fully expect to be proved wrong here, its the car he drives to Cambridge in SF when Tarn's guards try to stop him entering the hotel.No doubt I'm wrong...

[zencat]

No, you could very well be right. I think you remember the book better than I do.

[Jim]

The SAAB 900 Turbo was a jolly nice car and the reason I can write that sort of bland platitude with some authority is because in 1982, my mother bought one.

Unfortunately, this meant that James Bond was driving around in Mum's car, which resulted for me in some credibility problems with the early Gardner books - just couldn't take them seriously when Mum's car turned up. She never did get a Bentley though, so things did improve.

I'm sure you're delighted to know these things.

[sainttemplar]

Originally posted by zencat
No, you could very well be right. I think you remember the book better than I do.

I don't thinki many Bond fans find SF memorable mate

[zencat]

It's actually not a bad Gardner book.