{"id":494,"date":"2012-03-15T04:48:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T04:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/?p=494"},"modified":"2012-04-15T23:12:55","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T23:12:55","slug":"a-very-rare-saab-99-item-flag-style-chrome-side-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"a very rare SAAB 99 item &#8211; flag style chrome side mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchase a pair of standard black painted with chrome base motorized 1978 SAAB 99 side mirrors off of ebay last year with the plans to put them on this car.  When I received them, I noticed the paint wasn&#8217;t as good as it looked in the auctions so I was prepping them to be painted.  When I started removing the paint from the first mirror, I saw a shiny surface beneath.  Indeed, it was chromed.  I posted on a couple of SAAB forums but no one has ever seen a flag style mirror that was chromed.  The other mirror, which apparently came from the same 1978 99, was not chromed.  If you know anything about this, please get in touch!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saab99-chromed1.jpg\" class=\"fancyboxgroup\" rel=\"gallery-494\" title=\"saab99-chromed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saab99-chromed1-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"saab99-chromed\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saab99-chromed1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/saab99-chromed1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*** UPDATE ***<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently all 1978 99 Turbos have black painted chrome mirrors.  If you have worn paint on your mirrors, look a little closer, is it shiny underneath or dull gray?  If shiny, you might want to try using paint stripper.  Do not use bleach or steel wool!  Just a sponge or rag with stripper should do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchase a pair of standard black painted with chrome base motorized 1978 SAAB 99 side mirrors off of ebay last year with the plans to put them on this car. When I received them, I noticed the paint wasn&#8217;t as good as it looked in the auctions so I was prepping them to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[79,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saab99.motd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}