MAY/JUNE 2015 ISSUE 3 £6.00 SAABDRIVERThe Magazine of the Saab Owners Club of Great Britain Limited INSIDE WINTER WEEKEND FOR THE LOVE OF... SAABS TOUR OF WESSEX www.saabclub.co.uk 19 26 50 28 CONTENTS 6 STEERING WHEEL 28 FOR THE LOVE OF... SAABS 7 MOTORING NEWS 30 SAAB BOOST 10 POST BAG 32 REGISTERS 12 CAR CLINIC 46 SAAB AUTHORISED SERVICE CENTRES 13 NEW CLUB WEBSITE 49 SAAB BUTIK 14 NEO’S 96SS UNLEASHED 50 MOTORSPORT 16 NOTICEBOARD 52 COMPETITION 18 WHAT’S ON 53 CLASSIFIED 19 AROUND THE UK 54 LAST WORD 26 WINTER WEEKEND IRONBRIDGE FRONT COVER: Neo Brothers 96ss – debut Pre Cadwell Test Please state your Membership Number on all correspondence Design, print & production: MYPEC, The Festoon Rooms, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS28 5UJ. Tel: 0113 257 9646 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.mypec.co.uk © Copyright 2015 MYPEC Ltd ISSN 1477-2604 MAY/JUNE 2015 3 WHO’SWHO DIRECTORS FOR CLUB MEMBERSHIP, RENEWALS, CHANGE OF ADDRESS, CHAIRMAN CLUB QUERIES Dave Garnett Contact the Membership Team on: 01706 368724 Gorsey Field House, Birtle, Bury, BL9 6UD. Tel: 0113 257 7180 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] POSTAL ADDRESS VICE CHAIRMAN – Derek Best National Event Co-ordinator/Company Secretary c/o MYPEC, Festoon Rooms, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire LS28 5UJ. 01900 814317 Longview, Central Road, Dearham, Club Insurance Schemes. Tel: 0800 298 4071 Maryport, Cumbria CA15 7ER. IMPORTANT [email protected] VICE CHAIRMAN – Elli Wilson Please quote your Membership Number on ALL correspondence Regional Groups’ Co-ordinator Technical queries for Car Clinic, Richard 01527 403596 CONTRIBUTIONS 43 Towbury Close, Oakenshaw South, Please send your contributions to: Elliott. (See Car Clinic for details.) Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 7YZ. MYPEC [email protected] [email protected] Copy should be submitted either by e-mail or on Finance – Bryan Riley 0113 257 9646 CD or DVD, either in PC or Mac format. 01482 632162 The Festoon Rooms, Sunny Bank Mills, Photographs should be undamaged and of a Lowlands, Reading Room Yard, North Ferriby, Farsley, Leeds LS28 5UJ. good quality and, if supplied digitally, be of a East Yorkshire, HU14 3DE. [email protected] high resolution for print, either 300dpi or taken Motorsport Secretary – Richard Simpson For information, and ALL articles, Group at the highest resolution setting on your camera. 0114 288 7612 Organisers’ reports, Post Bag, Sport, etc. Please supply as separate jpeg files, NOT 11A Park Drive, Stocksbridge, (See above for address.) embedded in a WORD document. Sheffield, S36 1EP. [email protected] Register articles to respective Registrars. DEADLINE DATES IT Director – Nick Hoare (See individual Register Pages.) July/August 2015 29 May 2015 [email protected] Classified Advertisements – see page 53 September/October 2015 31 July 2015 Membership – Rich Bone 0121 288 2663 160 Ardath Road, Birmingham B38 9PE. DISPLAY ADVERTISING IN THE SAAB ‘DRIVER’ [email protected] Anyone in the business of selling goods or services related to the motor industry can advertise in National Events Co-ordinator, ‘Driver’. If Members can recommend a service or would like to suggest a potential advertiser please Benefits and Services – Rachel Hillier contact our Sales Executive: 01379 740158 Kay Scott Linnaeus, Norwich Road, Scole Diss, Norfolk IP21 4DY. KJS Advertising Tel: 01943 461679 [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Saab Independent Dealer Liaison – John Ransley 0161 338 2423 133 Stocks Lane, Stalybridge Cheshire, SK15 2NU. CLUB VALUATION SCHEME [email protected] The Club Valuation Scheme is continuing to provide a very important service to Club Members. However, I would like International Liaison and Saab Butik to remind everyone that the purpose of the scheme is to provide The Valuation Service for any model of Saab which – Iain Hodcroft qualifies for an ‘Agreed Value’ Insurance Policy. To obtain a Valuation please request a form, return this along with a 07976 314012 series of good quality photographs showing all aspects of the vehicle. The Valuation will be issued soon after receipt of [email protected] the information, but please remember that if there is any doubt due to lack of information or poor quality photographs the Valuation may be withheld. Finally, can I please emphasise that Valuations cannot be provided for cars less than ten Managing Editor – Os Reid years old, and are not based on resale value. 07768 048478 Ken Dover [email protected] Manor Heath, Manor Brow, Keswick, Cumbria CA12 4AP Performance and Tuning, Registers Co-ordinator – Adrian Summerfield 07581 880785 Saab ‘Driver’ is published by The Saab Owners Club of Great Britain Ltd. [email protected] Designed and produced by: MYPEC, The Festoon Rooms, Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS28 5UJ. NON DIRECTORS Tel: 0113 257 9646 E-mail: [email protected] www.mypec.co.uk Club Publicity & Awareness – Alex Rankin 07963 066384 14 Southwoods, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 2QG. Disclaimer [email protected] The Club welcomes contributions to ‘Driver’, but reserves the right to amend them where necessary. All contributions, Librarian/Historian – Keith Long whether they bear names, initials or pseudonyms, are accepted on the understanding that the author is responsible for the 01226 385139 opinions expressed and that they do not necessarily reflect or comply with those of the Club, publisher or editor. Although [email protected] every care is taken, the Club, publisher and editor cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to material submitted. Whilst every care is taken to ensure contents are accurate, the Club, publisher and editor assume no responsibility for any Valuer – Ken Dover effects arising from errors or omissions. Acceptance of material is not a guarantee of publication in any particular issue, since Manor Heath, Manor Brow, Keswick, space is at a premium. The Club, publisher and editor cannot guarantee to return original material and photographs. Cumbria CA12 4AP. Post only MEMBERSHIP TEAM NUMBER: 0113 257 7180 9.00am-4.00pm MONDAY TO FRIDAY MAY/JUNE 2015 5 STEERINGWHEEL Hi Everyone. At last the daylight hours are back, I 26/27 June and, of course, the National received a telephone call asking about at the beginning of July. For more details, Membership discounts from Saab Authorised Service see the notice board pages. Services Centres to whom I said, various dealers The Neo Bros ‘Saab 96SS’ article The Club’s management and do give discount, but you should always makes interesting reading, as does the administration of membership check with them beforehand. article ‘For the Love of Cars’ (make services has recently been taken A typical example is Neo Brothers. We a point of tuning in to Channel 4 in over by MYPEC, the publishers of have negotiated with Neo Brothers Ltd mid May). Saab ‘Driver’. (the Saab parts specialists), a discount of The Board would like to thank the MYPEC will be responsible for 10% for our Club Members on goods Registrars, who do a sterling job writing managing the database of Club bought from them (excluding special their articles which appear each month Members and will provide a five day, offers, tyres, performance parts and and have some very interesting and Mon-Fri dedicated telephone delivery charges). informative stories. We must also include service for enquiries, membership, The Saab Authorised Service Centres our thanks to all the other people who renewals and general enquiries – adverts have now extended to three work in the background for the Club. with an out-of-hours answer pages. Don’t forget to enter the competition phone service. The Club membership appears to be in this issue. The Autoglym prize In addition, MYPEC have reviewed growing, albeit slowly, and the package will give many hours of ‘fun’ to the Club’s membership material and membership hotline has changed to the lucky winner. re-designed new member packs, 0113 2577180, with MYPEC taking over The 2015 Saab International will be stationery, membership cards and this service. held in Norway, 2-7 August and more car stickers – you will see these The Winter Weekend in Ironbridge was information is available by going direct on renewal. a great success, and thanks go to to the INTSAAB 2015 site “Managing our membership is Bernard and Jean Crowhurst for www.intsaab2015.com time consuming and needs constant organising the event and, as Jean says, Don’t forget the Saabfestival 2015 will monitoring and administration. For why not organise one in your part of the take place in Trollhättan, 5-7 June. More the past ten years, this has been run country? information will be available at by MG Owners Club on our behalf There are other events to take your saabcarmuseum.se and I hope to see and we thank them for all their hard fancy; Swedish Day on 10 May, Peaks and some of you at the festival. work. However, we felt the time was Dales on 13 June, Saabs on the Marches Enjoy your ‘Driver’ right to move these services to Hotel weekend and driving tour on daveg MYPEC who will offer a more pro-active service to retain existing members and assist our Membership Director to recruit new ANY BUDDING AUTHORS? members,” commented Chairman, Amberley Publishing, the specialist publisher, are looking for budding authors to Dave Garnett. help them extend their series of books on classic cars. The new Membership Team “We would be interested in publishing guides to classic Saab models as part of enquiry number is 0113 268 5180 our series on classic cars,” explains Alexander Stilwell of Amberley Publishing. and the email The book(s) would need between 12,000 and 14,000 words and have about [email protected] 100 illustrations.