SAAB LICENSE PLATE TAG METAL ARIZONA MINT EMBOSSED
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ARIZONA LICENSE PLATE "SAAB" 6"X12" [edit ] Company historyUntil 1990, the company was owned by SAAB , an acronym for S venska A eroplan A ktie bolaget (Swedish Aeroplane Company), and was part of a conglomerate which included SAAB Aerospace and the truck manufacturer Scania .The original Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget was established in 1937 with the express purpose of building aircraft for the Swedish Air Force. As World War II was ending, it was apparent that the company's market for military aircraft would decline and after considering other options, Saab decided to move into the passenger car market, appointing Gunnar Ljungström in charge of design. The company's first car, the Saab 92 was a streamlined steel-bodied two-door saloon (sedan) with a two-cylinder two-stroke engine driving the front wheels and with independent suspension all round. The company's aviation roots were evident in the car with the best drag coefficient of any production car in the world (CD = 0.32) at the time. The car's name was simply the 92nd SAAB design project and all previous 91 designs had been aircraft. One of the engineers working on the SAAB 92 prototype, Hans Osquar Gustavsson, also took part in the development of the JAS 39 Gripen .[3] Three cylinders replaced two with the introduction of the Saab 93 in 1955, and, until the Saab 95 and 96
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