9s 381 – Apr-Jun 2025
Contents
- President’s Letter SHELLY BAXTER
- Editor’s Letter GREG ABBOTT
- 4 Say YES to PocoNO BY JAMIE ANDERSON
- 6 SCNA & SOC Behind the Scenes BY SHELLY BAXTER
- 8 Call for Nominations SAAB CLUB OF NORTH AMERICA BOARD
- 9 Birth of a Magazine BY TIM WINKER
- 12 It Takes a Village BY JAKE TILTON
- 14 Saab Shots
- 16 What’s This Extra Wire For? BY JIM HICKSTEIN
- 17 Saab Club Online
- 18 9 Questions ISAK EDMAN & THOMAS HELLBERG
- 19 SOC42
- 20 The Origin Story for Saab BY ALLAN HOLMES
- 22 Scary Steering Sidelines Ski Sojourn BY JAKE TILTON
- 24 Saabs in Jeopardy!
- 27 Volunteers Needed For SOC42
- 28 Saab Club Info
- 29 Future Events
SCNA President’s Letter by Michelle Baxter
Hello fellow SAABers!
When this edition of 9s hits your mailbox, we will be in the last stages of preparing for SOC42! Hopefully by now you have made your plans to attend, hotel reservations are made, and registration has been completed to be at one of the biggest Saab events of the year! Don’t forget that we are celebrating all things parts! With this in mind, there is some space for you to dust off those hidden collections and bring them to SOC42!
Have you decided on what Saab you are going to bring? I know that I have not. Nick and I are hoping to make it to Carlisle this year with the red Viggen and come home with our 99 that has been stored at Sports Car Service for the last year and a half. That means having the Viggen ready for the show and race track by May! Speaking of the 99…The 70s were a memorable decade, and for our favorite brand, it was a time of new inventions that would lead us into the iconic era of the 80s. One innovation that comes to mind is the production of the 1978 Turbo on the assembly line. The story on how Saab gotvinvolved with Turbos is a good one, and the cliff notes version is this: Saab’s engine was designed to allow maximum boost pressure in a mid-range engine. A lot of work with Garret, and a “can-do” attitude helped make the dream a reality.
Have you experienced the “whoosh” of your turbo as it spools up, ready to take your speed higher with good gas economy? Thank a Saab engineer, with the can-do attitude that made our brand so unique and keeps new people joining our community on a regular basis.
Our community is growing, and with that growth comes a lot of questions about why we do things the way that we do them. I promise there is a method to our madness. We are working on putting a “Behind the Scenes” article together to try to address some of these questions, and the first one is available in this issue. Let me know what you think!
As always,
Keep on SAABin!
Shelly Baxter
SCNA President