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RAC Honour Erik Carlsson on 50th Anniversary
Erik Carlsson celebrated the first of three consecutive RAC Rally wins in 1960. He was driving a three-cylinder 750cc Saab 96 in that event and it was the beginning of a golden era in rallying for Saab...
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Press Release: Saab Great Britain Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Founded as Saab’s UK importer in October 1960 Celebrating with rising sales and new products Entire product line-up to renewed by end of 2012 Saab Great Britain is celebrating its 50th anniversary...
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Carlsson’s Sonett
This would be soooooo cool. The story in TTELA is that of Johan Josefsson. Aside from being the tech guy who helped out the Saabs United Historic Rally Team in the Midnight Sun rally last year, his...
View ArticleSaab Sport Video: Masters at the wheel
Mellde, Molander, Carlsson, Moss, Skogh, Blomqvist, Eklund, Lampinen. Monte Carlo, RAC, Swedish Rally, Finnish Rally, Liege-Sofia-Liege, Midnight Sun – even a stint in Australia! Swedes, Finns and the...
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SAAB returning to Rally racing?
Not exactly. But an exact replica of Erik Carlsson’s car from 1963 will start at this week’s XIVth Monte Carlo Historique. The press-release from Saab reads as follows: The classic Saab 96 has been...
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Saab at the 100th Anniversary of the Monte Carlo Rally
RedJ covered the press release relating to this story yesterday, but there’s a little more that I wanted to share with you today. Peter Backstrom, from the Saab Museum, is heading down to Riems, in...
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Erik Carlsson attends SOC meeting
I did cover a little of the SOC meeting at Stratford just over a week or so ago, but I got these additional photos in and couldn’t resist giving it some more air time. Erik Carlsson, that’s Mr Saab to...
View ArticleVideo: 50 years sideways
I was going to wait for the weekend before I posted this on site, but now that Autoblog’s got hold of it, I’m getting emails left, right and centre. Here’s a bit of weekend entertainment for you. It’s...
View ArticleA glance in the rear-view mirror: Erik Carlsson interview from 1986
I apologize for the rather stark lack of English in the following clip, but plenty of nice archive footage to be seen.
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The Saab Museum – some pictures
Erik Carlsson signing his book for my dad (Museum director Peter Bäckström can be seen lurking in the background)March 14th 2009 marks the day when I first visited the museum in Trollhättan. It also...
View ArticleErik Carlsson visits Saab show in Poland
It sounds like that II Antique Saab Convention in Poland over the weekend was a big success. There were around 160 Saabs in attendance with 60 or so of those being of the vintage kind. The show was...
View ArticlePress Release (UK): SAAB Celebrates 50th Anniversary Of Erik Carlsson’s First...
SAAB CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ERIK CARLSSON’S FIRST RAC RALLY VICTORY *** Limited edition Saab 9-3 Aero Carlsson on sale now *** In 1960, Erik ‘Mr Saab’ Carlsson exploded onto the world rally...
View ArticleSAAB returning to Rally racing?
Not exactly. But an exact replica of Erik Carlsson’s car from 1963 will start at this week’s XIVth Monte Carlo Historique. The press-release from Saab reads as follows: The classic Saab 96 has been...
View ArticleSaab at the 100th Anniversary of the Monte Carlo Rally
RedJ covered the press release relating to this story yesterday, but there’s a little more that I wanted to share with you today. Peter Backstrom, from the Saab Museum, is heading down to Riems, in...
View ArticleErik Carlsson attends SOC meeting
I did cover a little of the SOC meeting at Stratford just over a week or so ago, but I got these additional photos in and couldn’t resist giving it some more air time. Erik Carlsson, that’s Mr Saab to...
View ArticleVideo: 50 years sideways
I was going to wait for the weekend before I posted this on site, but now that Autoblog’s got hold of it, I’m getting emails left, right and centre. Here’s a bit of weekend entertainment for you. It’s...
View ArticleA glance in the rear-view mirror: Erik Carlsson interview from 1986
I apologize for the rather stark lack of English in the following clip, but plenty of nice archive footage to be seen.
View ArticleThe Saab Museum – some pictures
March 14th 2009 marks the day when I first visited the museum in Trollhättan. It also happened to be the day they celebrated Erik Carlsson’s 80th birthday and I have to admit that my knowledge of...
View ArticleSaabfestival 2015: In memory of Erik Carlsson
As the most of you know, we got the sad message on Wednesday 27th of May that Erik Carlsson had driven his last mile. Erik is the true “Mr. Saab”, and in all respect for other that do and have done a...
View ArticleSaabfestival 2015: Revving twostrokes for Erik
As I promised you a couple of weeks ago, I have a clip of the Saab-peoples way to honour Erik Carlsson. Not one minute silence – we do it the Saab-way and honour Erik with three minutes of two stroke...
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