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Peaks and Dales Leisure Drive 2025
The Peaks and Dales Leisure Drive is a regular members event hosted by Richard Elliott. It takes the form of a drive around the delights of Yorkshire and Derbyshire with various pit stops and visits along the way.
Saturday, 7 June 2025
The Peaks and Dales will start as usual from Windy Harbour. This will be a special event as it will be the 20th anniversary of the drive and also, sadly, the last one.
Mike Doughty (the route organiser) is in the process of finding some special venues for us to visit along the way. More details will be in the next edition of ‘Driver’.
For more details contact Richard at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show
Come and see the Saab Owners Club and UKSaabs at the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show... read on for a discount code.
40 Years of the Turbo 16 at the NEC Classic Car Show 2024
This is a great video from @KemoSAABe at the NEC Classic Car Show, celebrating 40 years of the Turbo 16.
Click on the image or follow this link https://youtu.be/-ZuwZhpdJZU
Ironbridge 2025
We are back at the The Valley Hotel for our early spring gathering in 2025.
Four nights are available February 27th & 28th and March 1st & 2nd.
Full details below and in the September edition of the Driver.
SOC Event Calendar
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Ebor Saab Scottish Mystery Weekend May 2019
14 Ebor Saab members set off on Friday 10 May to make their separate ways to the assembly point at Gretna Green for what was billed as a Scottish Mystery Weekend, the mystery being only the organisers knew the itinerary. The mystery began to unfold on Saturday morning with a drive along gloriously empty roads under blue skies up into rural Scotland to visit the Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Temple at Eskdalemuir (nobody expected a visit the foothills of the Himalayas).
South Yorkshire Saab
South Yorkshire Saab are no longer meeting. If anyone would like to take up the baton in this part of the world please contact Elli Wilson at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
North of Scotland
There is no formal Branch currently in operation (largely as a result of the sheer geographical spread of members across this area) and therefore no regular meetings.
Where possible, there is usually an SOC 'presence' at gatherings across the region organised by other clubs, motor museums or advertised on web forums (principally UKSaabs).
The dates known so far for 2020 at which we aim to be represented are:
- 26th Apr FBHVC 'Drive It Day' 2020 - various local runs (I'll be attending the one organised by the Highland Classic Motor Club, Inverness)
- 9th May Inverness Classic Vehicle Show - on the streets of Inverness with Parade finale led by pipe band
- 10th May Grampian Transport Museum, Alford, Aberdeenshire - "How Many Left" event for 'nearly classic' vehicles with fewer than 500 examples on the road
- 23rd May Rotary Club of East Sutherland Classic Car Tour, Dornoch
- 11/12th Jul 46th Scottish Transport Extravaganza, Glamis Castle, Angus (see UKSaabs forum for details)
- 9th Aug Historic Wheels Vintage Car Rally, Brodie Castle, Morayshire
- 31st Aug Fortrose & Rosemarkie Classic Vehicle Rally, Fortrose, Ross-shire.
- 6th Sept Motor Mania, Grantown on Spey.
- 19th Sept 'Wheels of Nairn', Nairn Links
- Early Dec Joint SOC/UKSaabs Christmas Gathering - date and venue TBC (see UKSaabs forum for details)
Should anyone wish to hook up with other Saab enthusiasts in the North of Scotland please contact:
Derek Darnell
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