Dear Saab-Friends! Christmas and the new year 2018 is just a few days away! The year that passed will mostly be remembered for the ”Saab Car Museum Festival” in June, arranged by the Saab Car Museum together with the Saab Turbo Club of Sweden, Club Sonett Sweden and Svenska Saabklubben. This fantastic weekend we saw a great increase of members int the Support Organization. According to Peter Bäckström there where between 15.000 – 20.000 visitors over the weekend. A new Record. We Launched the new book by Gunnar Johansson about the cars during the Gunnar Ljungström era, from Saab 92 to Saab 900. The book sold very well and there is a small number of signed books left. Maybe a wonderful Christmas gift ? Check it out on the Saab Car Museum Webshop. Gunnar Larsson´s book about Gunnar Ljungström and his collegues is planned to be ready during 2018. We also presented the first ”Carlsson on the roof Stipendium” to Björn and Mikael Mohlin for the exceptional achivement of lifting racing with 2-stroke Saab to new and higher levels. This fall the outspoken Saab Director Sten Wennlo passed away, 92 years old. He was the Leader of the Saab Passenger car division during it's Peak time, 1976 – 1987 and saved the life of Saab by introducing not only the Saab 99 Combi Coupé (Hatchback) but also against the owner's will putting the Turbo into production. A Great Man... In the late summer we started up a Facebook account: Saab Car Museum Support Organization, to this day we have 316 followers and growing, we hope most of these (many are already) will be members of our Support Organisation. For 2018 we are increasing the membership fee to 300 SEK, this includes free entrance to the Saab Car Museum during the whole year for members. Now we are looking forward to the Chistmas Hollidays and winter, with hopefully some snow, Wishing you all, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thomas Sinclair Chairman Saab Car Museum Support Organization .