First project - a Saab Sonett III 1971 (1 of 7)
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This story begins in the 70s, when the Sonett was new and had the green color. The car was smashed in an accident with a bus and then got its red color, all told by the first owner.

Time passed and the year was now 2004 when the car came into my possession.
The former owner had worked insistently with polish, wax and succeeded quite well to preserve the paint in reasonably condition. I continued the hard work, but somewhere is the limit, and a decision to paint the car was a must.

In Stockholm there are many who paint cars but you should find someone who does good jobs and the price had come second.

By recommendation I got in touch with Kjell at KN Plåt  & Lack in Stockholm.

It was time to show the car for a first look. Kjell smiled and said, "This car can we fix".

Everything he told me about the approach sounded good and just over a week after the car was left to Kjell.

Much of the secret when you paint old cars whether they are plastic or metal is time and patience.

Despite all the modern materials used today, time is a crucial factor. Filler and all that they are called often drops away after some time. 

The time can be everything from a few days to several weeks or months. 

I accepted this and realized that this sort of thing does not happen every year, so the car had to spend his summer in an unknown garage was a fact. 

All that was needed was removed and the undersigned was at times with. 

The goal was to try to restore the car to how a Saab Sonett III from 1971 should look. 

The summer passed, but my Sonnet was in good company with, among other cars and among them a Porsche 911 and how wrong it is with a left hand driven Porsche 911, a Jaguar and an old Bentley. 

Problems did occur during the fall in the form of a cracked windshield. 

The old windshield got a crack when mounting. No problem, I thought, and a new windshield appeared up through the CSS in less than 24 hours, but the problems were not over even if one could believe so.

What was the problem?

Well, the windshield arrived but did not to fit in my car, not as good as it should do.

A big headache arrived and another glazier was called and apparently had he seen this before and he knew very well the problem. The solution was that we had to arrange up a new windshield from Finland and when it did arrived. It did fit perfectly. 

I was not sad about that a new windshield came anyway in place with the perfect fit.
More jobs were planned at the same time, whether the car had been ready to run or not.