Saab NA Hertiage Collection up for auction

Many of you might remember our posts from a only some weeks in the past pertaining to the Saab Museum in Sweden leaving up in support of insolvency trade and the successive saving of the collection.

Now the same lot awaits the North American finish off of Saab's Heritage Collection. The Saab Club of North America and Hemmings Motor News are treatment so as to Saab North America's collection will all gain the mart jam this week. .However, this trade is being conducted a little small piece another. The Saab museum has a vast collection of cars, anywhere the Saab North America's collection consists of simply 11 cars so as to are all big in their own straight. When such, the full collection of 11 cars will be sold as a batch more willingly than infringement the collection up. This is awkward, but it will in support of by the side of smallest amount the instant being preserve the collection as a undivided. And could you repeat that? The collection lacks in size, it makes up in support of in variety. There are production cars, run cars, and even a prototype convertible.

McTevia & Associates is behavior the trade and all bids are to be submitted by noon on Friday February 10th. All bids are to be submitted to the attention of  Dennis McTevia. The Saab Heritage Collection is located in incomparable Heights, Michigan and are being sold as is, and on bill of trade simply. So you would allow to be creative in order to license one of the cars in support of road service.

Here's a sample of a little of the cars in the collection. Well, by the side of smallest amount the ones I really like.


There were only 6 Saab Sonetts built in 1956. So this is probably the most significant car in the collection. This was the second car built that year.

 This 1960 Saab 96 is a actual rally car. It won the 1960 RAC Rally of Great Britain and was driving by Saab and rally legend Erik Carlsson. I don't think you would care for to submit this car to vintage rallies at present.

I allow for eternity been a colossal fan of the Saab 99/900 Turbo coupes. This 1978 99 Turbo was a single time simply car and had a production run of with a reduction of than 4,500 units. This instance shows with a reduction of than 40,000 creative miles and has been thoroughly restored to like new-fangled condition.

Following on the success of the 99/900 comes the 1986 900 Turbo convertible prototype. What's really col on this one is the rear spoiler has been carved out of wood rather than the molded rubber of the production model.

This 1987 9000 Turbo sedan was single of three cars built in support of the FIA Saab Turbo modish The long Run challenge by the side of Talladega Raceway (Save me Tom Cruise!) in October 1986. The three cars featured sealed engines and transmissions, a chubby roll cage, and six meaning safety harness. The cars were treated to 20 days and 20 nights of straight driving and the simply mending parts so as to possibly will be used  would be 179 pounds of spares voted for in the cars all through the challenge.  During this instant, both car racked up greater than 100,000 kilometers and averaged linking 130 and 133 miles for each hour and covered greater than 3,000 miles for each sunlight hours. Quite an endurance test. All 3 cars still exist. One in Saab Museum, single by the side of Talladega, and the car pictured at this point. These cars plus beat Talladega's run of the mill rapidity disc calibrate by Ford of 132.5 miles for each hour. Saab plus calibrate 21 International and 2 World Speed Records.

Saab would again return to Talladega in 1996 with a fleet of new-fangled 1997 900 coupes in an effort to break their records calibrate in 1986. The cars were calibrate up nix another from the 1987 models and followed the same strict guidelines calibrate by the FIA. At the finish off of the challenge, 18 of Saab's records were beat and an extra 22 International Speed Records were calibrate. For more info on the Saab Talladega challenges, check not worth it this notable article greater than by the side of Hemmings.

We'll keep you updated as we hear more almost the trade and potentially anywhere the collection will finish off up.