I participated in the Classic Motor Show at Lahti as part of the saabworks.fi team. Here’s a short reportage with photos: The show was just great. I talked to so many people I almost lost my voice towards Sunday evening. Learnt a lot too – there’s still many many people …
Saabs on ice! Here’s some footage from ice track today. The red Saab 96 is a V4 Rally and the yellow one is V4 Rallycross edition (Power steering, extremely lightened body, used to have injection engine but now has carburettors).
Ok, this has absolutely nothing to do with Saabs, but I’ll post it anyway. Juha Kankkunen has opened the doors of his amazing collection of Rally Cars to Edmuns Inside Line. The collection spans Kankkunen’s career. On display there are some of the most iconic Group B and Group A …
I bought a new project. It’s a 1969 Saab 96 V4 Rally car – originally built to Group 1 specs. The body is in a bad shape and the technique is missing, but it has some competition history from 1976 to 1977. My dad is already working on the body …
Me and my friend Tomi “Tikkis” Tikanmäki have a new project. We are collecting info and pictures of the Finnish Saab Works Team of 1970’s. Saab Works Finland built 19 full specs Saab 96 rally cars and 2 Saab 99 16 valve cars from 1970 onwards and brought home many …
I just finished reading Graham Robsons book “Rally Giants – Saab 96 & V4”. I wasn’t expecting too much of it, since it was only 128 pages and the price was surprisingly reasonable at Amazon.com. But actually the book does give a nice overview of the Saab rallying efforts and …
A “collector series” of classic rally cars has been published here in Finland this year. It looks like it’s a British company behind the series (www.eaglemoss.co.uk), the international marketing name appears to be “Champion Rally Cars” and in Finland “Mestareiden ralliautot” (Cars Of The Rally Champions). The packaging looks nice …
A few pictures of a pretty wild Saab 96 V6 “rallycar” made for a movie called “Kummeli Stories”. There were two cars made, one that could be blown to bits and then reassembled again (and blown to bits again) and this “hero” version for the driving scenes.
Saab 96 V4 Rally car in the Neste Rally Finland 60th Anniversary Cavalcade. A few special stages were driven for show – not full speed. I was fortunate enough to get on the co-drivers seat on one special stage. Here’s some footage along the way. This was the first car …
Photos from the winter event. HighRes versions availlable on my Picasa album. Videos can be found here.
