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SOC GB “Golden Flag” Relay

April 26, 2013 in Events

As some of you may know it is the Golden Jubilee of the Saabs Owners Club here in the UK. To celebrate the 50th year the SOC is organising a ‘golden’ flag relay, much like last years Olympic torch relay.

The flag will be delivered from branch to branch, and it is the club’s intention that each branch signs it as they pass it on, together with a photograph taken of the handover ceremony.
It will start with the East Sussex branch at the beginning of May and move clockwise around the local branches, ending up with East Anglia, where a pre- tour for the International is being held.

From there the flag will be delivered to the International and proudly put on display.

Toby Field has the flag at the moment and he will be travelling to The Lakeside Country Park in Eastleigh on the 5th May to hand it over to Alex and Robin from South West Saab at around 12 mid day.

All are welcome to come along to any of the hand overs and say hi and get in the picture too.

The 2nd hand over will be at the “Swedish Day” event (near Yeovil) on the 12th May where “SWS” will hand the flag over to “West Mids & Warwickshire Saab” Again a photo will be taken.

Please get in touch with any of the local group for date and location details if you wish to see any of the hand overs. And be in the photo.
I will try and publish updates etc here (on this thread) as and when we get them.toby & flag

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Multi Award Winning SAAB stand at the Bristol Classic Show.

April 22, 2013 in Events

I wanted to share with you the great result of a fantastic show we put together this weekend.
We beleive that around 1000 cars were on show for the public to see including more in the outside classic car park, 30 awawrds were up for grabs and about 65 car clubs were there for the public to admire.
This is the 2nd largest classic car show in our country.

Our stand attracted a lot of attention and it was fantasic for us all to chat to so many people and get the Saab word out there. It was a name that so many people still admire. Smiles all weekend.

Then the smiles got bigger when, on Sunday afternoon, we discovered our stand has receieved to rosettes.
One was for “Highly Commended” and the other “Runner Up in the Saloon class”.

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In Dave Dalimore’s words…..

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Setting up the Saab stand

April 20, 2013 in Events

This afternoon I went along to The Bath and West Showground to help GWS and SWS set up the Saab stand for this weekends classic car show.
Ten Saabs in total for all to see. I did a quick video of the work being carried out for you to see.

There are also a few photographs, as well as a video of a 2-stroke reversing, to been seen at my Flickr site for those interested.
After the show, sometime Sunday night, I will add a few more photos to the same set. Quite often you find more classic Saabs in the “Classic Car Park”. Please enjoy or if you are in the area, come and say hi…

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Bristol Classic Car Show (UK). This Weekend.

April 16, 2013 in Events

On the weekend of 20 & 21st April The Footman James 34th Bristol Classic Car Show will take place at the Royal Bath & West Showground, Somerset, United Kingdom. It is possibly the oldest classic car show in the UK.

The local Saab Group, Great Western Saabs, along with a little help from South West Saab will have a stand which is 24 x 5 metres!! Dave believes this too not only the largest single marque stand at the show, but may also be the largest SAAB stand ever assembled at an indoor show in the UK.

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Confiirmed Saabs are:

2 stroke model
David L – 96
Sonnet model
Howard -  MkIII
95 & 96 model
Clayton – 96 V4
Stuart – lhd 96
99 model
David &  Anne – 2 door turbo
Alan & Rose – 2 door turbo
Classic 900 model
Alex – base model 900
Chris R (convertible)
Martin L – T16s 2 door (Our Martin from The Crew)
9000 model
Tony & Julie – 9000 CSE

Read more: http://gwsforum.proboards.com/thread/1650/bristol-classic-car-show-april##ixzz2Qelz15Mk

A few pictures from the 2012 show can be found here and here

The Footman James 34th Bristol Classic Car Show will feature up to 1500 classics indoors and outdoors, a classic car auction (Sunday) together with more gadgets, spares and autojumble than you can imagine.

More information and tickets are available from our website www.bccsl.co.uk.

Read more at the GWS website

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SAABs@Carlisle Registration Deadline

April 13, 2013 in Events, Fan Stuff, Saab Clubs

For anyone still looking to attend SAABs@Carlisle and show their Saab, registration deadline has been changed to Sunday April 14th at 11:59 PM. Click the SAABs@Carlisle photo below and follow the steps for registration.

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For all attending, have fun and the group has said that Saturday is Swedish colors day so wear your blue and yellow. If you’re lacking in blue and yellow department, I came across this website of a fellow enthusiast the other day and picked up a shirt myself and the colors are perfect.

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Saab 64 Celebration Day: the thank yous

April 12, 2013 in Events

There were quite a few events happening last weekend and one I was planning to go too was the Saab 64 Celebration Day in Luxembourg, Sadly Azzy and I could not attend due to other reasons (so we joined in the treasure hunt by SWS) but Nicolas would like to share these words with you.

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The Saab 64 Team wishes to thank the more than 50 Saab owners that were present in Luxembourg for the meeting and tour, and the 70 people present for the dinner.
Special thanks goes to Alex from Slovakia who travelled more than 1000 km, Jeff ‘Golfhunter’ from the South of France, Fred and Dimi from Switzerland, Wolfgang from near München, the 4 Dutch participants from near Utrecht, and the Belgians with some who travelled more than 300 km.
Of course also a big thank you to our partners Dejaegher Graphics, Phoenix, Meguiar’s and Alvisse Parc Hotel.
And last but not least a well meant thank you to family and friends who voluntary helped with the organization of this event !

You can find photographs of this great event here.

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Valley Forge Saab Meet

April 11, 2013 in Editorial, Events, Fan Stuff, Saab Clubs

This past weekend the Saabs Of The Mid-Atlantic group met for a sort of pre Carlisle meet at Valley Forge National Park. They had met here before but were told after the fact that they would need to have a permit to have this type of event in the future.

So in preparation of their meet in April, Jim McGuire who is employed by the park sent an email request for a permit to have this meet about 2 weeks prior to the actual meet itself only after his countless phone calls and messages left were never retuned. At 5:40pm on April 5th less than 48 hours prior to the event that had people travelling from as far away as Virginia and Massachusetts, the park responded with a flat out denial of their request. Oddly enough, if everyone attending drove all sorts of other cars and just showed up at the park it would have been fine but because this was organized it becomes a problem. The group discussed the denial online and decided as I would have thought as well that it should be OK to meet as scheduled in the back corner of the guest lot and break into smaller group to travel through the park. The picnic they had planned would have to be cancelled because of the parks refusal but they would still meet. As Jim explains this meet was not just about the cars but a way to have a rewarding day for the entire family.

The Saabs @ Valley Forge event was supposed to be new kind of car meet. This gave us a unique opportunity to not only meet and see one another but to take in some Saab scenery and some US history. This all came about the summer meet of 2012 when I “happened” upon a local meet in the King of Prussia Mall area.  I stopped in and after talking to the fellow who pretty much arranged it all, I suggested using Valley Forge as a meeting place.  Since I work there at the park I knew it had a lot to offer in parking, scenery and recreation activities. This would take it from a parking lot meet to a very rewarding day for our Saab families.

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Sweden: STCS Track-day at Knutstorp

April 8, 2013 in Events, Sweden

60658_578424568848232_522652467_nThe Saab Turbo Club of Sweden hosts a number of track-days each year and this weekend was the first one for 2013. The club endeavors to have events spread out across this fairly long country thus giving something to people all over the country.

During the event you could see almost all kinds of models from 99′s all the way up to the latest 2012 Griffin version of the 9-3.

One thing is for sure, this thing looks like a lot of fun and a lot of people take this very seriously and being big fans of horse-power I can assure you that probably not a single car participating is “normal”. =)

A bit thanx to Eric Berntsson for the photos!

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The Footman James 34th Bristol Classic Car Show (UK)

March 30, 2013 in Events

On the weekend of 20 & 21st April The Footman James 34th Bristol Classic Car Show will take place at the Royal Bath & West Showground, Somerset, United Kingdom.

It is possibly the oldest classic car show in the UK.

The local Saab Group, Great Western Saabs, along with a little help from South West Saab will have a stand which is 24 x 5 metres!! Dave believes this too not only the largest single marque stand at the show, but may also be the largest SAAB stand ever assembled at an indoor show in the UK.

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A few pictures from the 2012 show can be found here and here

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SAAB, Friends, Coffee and The Open Road

March 19, 2013 in Events, Fan Stuff, Saab Clubs

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SAAB Club Of LA March Meet

There are Saab groups and clubs around the world that really come together and express exactly what Saab represents to me and many others. A couple of such groups are the Saab Clubs of LA and San Diego, Ca. I have followed both clubs on Facebook and am constantly pleased with how connected they are within their respective clubs with coffee meets on weekends and with how they come together for combined meets to share their cars and the love for the brand as well as a great love of the community as a whole. In the last year I have come to know some of the members here personally and have a great respect for what they do.

The story below is from Paul Hughes (LA) with photos from Alan Izzo (Saab Club San Diego), Simik Ghookasian (LA) and Duane McFarlane (LA).

On Saturday, March 16, the Los Angeles Saab Club gathered together for a fun morning of chat, photographs, and of course, a drive on one of the LA area’s most entertaining roads to exercise the turbocharged engines and wonderful European suspensions that the cars are known for. For anyone who enjoys driving but lives in Los Angeles, finding a fun road that isn’t clogged with traffic is remarkably easy, if you know where to look and are willing to spend about 30-45 minutes to get there. Special kudos go to Alan Izzo and his family for driving 2+ hours up from San Diego in his Griffin embossed red 9-5 Aero wagon for the meeting.

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