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New Saab 99T engines

by SwadeJanuary 31, 2011 0 comments
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New cars for the Saabs United Historic Rally Team

by SwadeOctober 24, 2010 2 comments

It’s been a little since we updated the SUHRT website but that doesn’t mean the team has been idle. Far from it, in fact! The last few months have seen the guys add two more cars to the garage. The question, now, is which historic rally cars these ones will made into replicas of. First, [...]

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New Saab 99T replica at the Saab Museum

by SwadeOctober 24, 2010 0 comments
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Midnight Sun Rally Results

by SwadeJuly 18, 2010 2 comments

The Midnight Sun rally is complete for 2010. The Saabs United Historic Rally Team did well in that they simply managed to finish the event with both cars running. Remember, these were two brand new cars that were only completed in the days before the event and one of our drivers, Vladimir Antonov, was driving [...]

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Update – Start of Day 3

by SwadeJuly 17, 2010 0 comments

Today is the start of the final day in the Midnight Sun rally. I spoke to Jörgen on the phone last night and after the drama of the previous day, he was a very relieved man. The great news is that both cars – including the #1 car with the transplanted engine – made it [...]

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Update – start of Day 2

by SwadeJuly 17, 2010 1 comment

Last night, I reported that the engine in the #1 car seized up. Initial reports diagnosed an oil pressure problem, but the more the team looked into things, the more serious the situation became. This was no minor problem, it was a case of the engine going off to Valhalla, leaving our black Saab 99 [...]

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Update – End of Day 1

by SwadeJuly 16, 2010 1 comment

The best laid plans……. Yes, that’s the SUHRT Car #1 on a trailer. And yes, it appears to be terminal. The first news I received about this was in a video that I posted earlier. There was an oil pressure problem and at that stage, with the car stuck on the side of the road, [...]

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The Midnight Sun rally is underway!

by SwadeJuly 15, 2010 1 comment

Today is the first day of the Midnight Sun Rally. Jorgen and our #2 car co-driver, Vladimir Antonov, have been in the news already this week. The bad news is that Car #1 has had some problems show up on the first stage of the rally. Here’s the video. – The good news is that [...]

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ConversGroup join with SUHRT

by SwadeJuly 3, 2010 0 comments

Jörgen and Bo are pleased to announce that the Convers Group, a banking group run by Vladimir Antonov, the driver of SUHRT Car #2, have chosen to provide sponsorship for the Saabs United Historic Rally Team. —— Motor racing support is one of the main sponsorship interests of “Convers Group’’ and INVESTBANK. If we talk [...]

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Counting down to the Midnight Sun Rally

by SwadeJuly 3, 2010 0 comments

It seems like so long ago when this website was just in its infancy and the campaign to produce a Stig Blomqvist replica Saab 99 Turbo was still only a search for a suitable vehicle to get started with. How far have we come since then? Well, we found not just one car, but two, [...]

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