Saab Car Museum support association

The text below is copy-pasted from Saabsunited: Yesterday a new association deeply linked with Saab’s heritage was officially launched, The Saab Car Museum – Support Association. For a few months now I, as a representative from SaabsUnited has been part of a start-up board for this new “club” which aim is to help preserve the collection of cars, keep the museum alive with new cars to show and also help organizing serious events such as the Saab Festival. I have attended a number of meetings and together with a great team from various parts of what used to be the previous company Saab Automobile. We have worked out the guidelines of the association and also found ways for what the association can do for its members. The chairman of the association was elected yesterday, his name is Gunnar Larsson, who previously worked as Technical Director at SAAB Automobile AB. Several other great people from Saab is involved in the board for the association and I’m sure they will do a superb job!. As a first step, thanx to the sponsors of SaabsUnited, we were able to fund the costs of establishing the web-domain for the website of the association, and the Swedish Saab Club did a good job with providing the server space required. Membership for the association will come at a cost of 200 SEK per year per member and a number of benefits which are very exclusive have been proposed to be made available for the members. We’ll get back with more details once it has been decided upon! The video above is made with my phone driving the 95 veteran.

First donation Saab Museum received in Trollhättan

A German Saab enthusiast from Darmstadt has sent 500 crowns to the new owners of the Saab museum after he understood the museum is saved. This nice guy has the phrase "Made in Trollhättan by Trolls" on his Saab just like I have on my 95. Of course a lot more people are willing to donate to the museum, this can be a good way to get extra funding for the museum because it`s rather costly to run (it is estimated at 3 million dollars per year).

According to Jonathan Sulo (a Saab driver too) it is costly too in Sweden to manage cash donations like the German Saab enthusiast did. Better wait for an official donation solution he wrote this afternoon. This sounds reasonable, let`s wait until the new owners decide to open up donations from the public. It is a great idea to ensure future success of the Saab Museum in Trollhättan.

Click here if you want the Troll sticker! I`ve ordered one 3 of them tonight, the one on my own Troll (below) needs replacement and my other Saabs want a sticker too.

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