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Information from some of the participating Saabclubs

(Links go to the club pages on the Internet)

Svenska Saabklubben

SSR was founded in 1976 and is an active club with about 2200 members, of which several members live outside Sweden.
Possession of a Saab is not mandatory. A common interest for Saab is good enough. Saabklubben was from the beginning a club exclusively for Saab 92 owners.
Since then, Saabklubben has developed to be a club for all Vintage Saab enthusiasts.
The two-stroke versions are the most common cars in Saabklubben, but the V4-models and 99 versions becomes more frequent at our meetings. We have recently opened up for early models of the classic Saab 900 range.

Our goals are:

To preserve vintage Saabs in original style.
To increase our members knowledge about Saab and Saabs interesting history.
To stimulate contact between members via meetings.
To ensure a good spareparts service, including reproduction of difficult parts as well as keeping our own stock for members at reasonable prices.

Our appreciated paper "Bakrutan" reaches our members four times a year. As spareparts have a tendency to get more rare each year, we reproduce some of the rare spareparts such as bumper parts, exhaust systems and some rubber mouldings. If you think this sounds interesting, please contact us.

www.saabklubben.com

Gammalsaabens Venner Norway

The Norwegian Saab club, Gammalsaabens Venner (GSV) was established in 1977, originally comprising two-strokes only. Gradually, the club’s focus was enlarged, and today encompasses all Saabs 21 years or older. Our motto, as seen in the logo above, is “en forening til Saabens bevarelse og velferd” (an association for the preservation and welfare of the Saab).

We aim to assist members with maintenance and restoration, including spare parts, and to stimulate contacts by arranging local and national meetings, as well as by the publication of our quarterly magazine, “Frihjulet” (the free-wheel). GSV has hosted two international Saab events, the “Saabiad” in Lillehammer (1993) and the Northern Lights Challenge, Oslo- North Cape- Trollhättan (1997).

The membership fee is NOK 350 p.a. Membership presently stands at about 550, with members from Norway as well as abroad.

Tom Eidesen, Formann Gammelsaabens venner

www.gsv.no

Club Sonett Sweden

The club was founded 1981 in order to look after the interests of the Sonett owners and of course also to organize different meetings. There were more than 10000 Saab Sonett's produced, 1868 of model Sonett II and V4 from 1966-1969 and 8368 of model Sonett III from 1970-1974. Today there remains a little over 300 Sonetts in Sweden. Of these, we have about 250 cars in the club, which is a sign of a strong interest for this Swedish but still unusual car. We have almost 350 members in the club, about 40 are living outside Sweden..

Nowadays the cars are mainly used in the summer time and more and more by enthusiasts. One aim for our club is to secure the stockholding of spare parts and thus the club is selling many specific spare parts for the Sonett. In some cases we even initiate new production of some parts.

Another important issue is to see that our members in Sweden have good and favourable insurance alternatives for their Sonetts..

Four times yearly, we issue a Swedish club paper, “Sonettvärlden” or “the Sonett World” which we see as the main source for information. We write about different matters like our meetings in Sweden but are also informing about the International Saab Meetings. Further on, we write about spare parts and insurance questions and the history of the different Sonett models. Our members can advertise the sale and purchase of spare parts or complete cars, naturally free of charge. Of course you also have an excellent opportunity to contribute with articles about your Sonett or for example to give mechanical advice. If we receive the articles in English, we normally publish them without translation whereas if we receive the articles in other languages we normally prefer to translate them to Swedish.

http://www.autosite.se/klassiker/motorsidor/medlemsklubbar/sonett/

Saab Klub Polska

Saab Klub Polska (Saab Club of Poland) was founded in 2003 but in the very short period of time we have gathered almost all early Saab model owners into the club.
We are the sole Saab club in Poland so sooner or later all the new Saab owners contact us to get accurate info about their lovely car and meet the people who love these cars in the same way.

We have 210 full members in our club with different Saab car models, from Sonett and 96 to 9-3 Sport Combi. We have several meetings in Poland every year and two Official Meettings in Spring and Autumn.

On our website forum we have 2361 registered members from all over our country and also from other countries around the world.

Marcin Trybura, Vice president Saab Klub Polska

http://www.saabklub.pl

Saab Club Belgium

"The one club for all SAAB enthusiasts in Belgium"

Found its origin in the "SAAB 96's club" founded in 1987.
Became an all SAAB club in 1999.
We currently have around 220 members. We are a bi-lingual (Dutch/French) club covering all of Belgium, with no local subdivisions.
We have a large group of active members, sometimes up to 50 members coming to our events.
We publish a bi-monthly newsletter and a book annually with photo's giving an overview of the events of past year.
We organise at least one event per month, two of which, annually, are scenic drives.
A small club in a small country but with great enthusiasm.

Axel Boey, Secretary Saab Club Belgium

http://www.saabclub.be