Saabs at Carlisle 2007 Update

Posted on 09. May, 2007 by Ryan in 2000-2009, Events, Saab Clubs, United States

Photo Credit: The Carlisle Media Site

The Central Pennsylvania Saab Club has just provided an update to the Saabs @ Carlisle 2007 event that will be taking place next Friday the 18th, Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of May in Carlisle, Pennsvlvania. It is incredible just how many people have signed up so far and the numbers are expected to exceed 200 registrations for vehicles in the coming weeks. Here is their update below in their own words: See you at Carlisle!

Congratulations!

With the passing of the pre- registration deadline, we have emassed at least 176 SAABS, which is a new club record for us and a new club record for Carlisle. Our friends with Volvo’s had reached 113 cars at last count, but that could change next week. We are consuming so much of the showfield real estate this year, that Carlisle Events has given us an additional 25 spaces that were previously assigned to the Fiero Club. At this point, it is safe to say that SAABs will once again dominate the largest import show in the East, but Sweden’s second best cars will be giving us their best run for the trophy in years! You could say that this is where it starts to get a little exciting, and every SAAB owner in attendance has alot to be very proud of as we put forth our best effort to date. If any club can take away the club participation trophy this year, we’ve already proven that they’ll have to do it with us at our strongest, and that’s says everything about who we are.

If you missed the pre- registration deadline, but still want to go, please contact us and we’ll provide instructions on what you will need to do.

It’s official: The GM Heritage Collection is scheduled to display all 18 vintage SAABs (the entire collection, on the showfield during SAABs @ Carlisle. Arriving in 3 tractor trailers, these very special cars will be showcased in a large display tent on the showfield, among all of the SAABs, throughout the weekend. This marks the first time that this significant SAAB collection has visited SAABs @ Carlisle, (although several of the cars were shown in prior years by their previous owners).

The GM Heritage Collection totals over 700 significant GM automobiles spanning several decades of concept, production and race cars in the United States, and several hundred more worldwide. Approximately 200 cars reside at the GM Heritage Center , not far from the GM Technical Center in Sterling Heights, Michigan, with the remaining collection stored elsewhere, on loan to museums or on display around the country. The collection was organized in 2005, and puts GM’s collection in very exclusive company with the Smithsonian, Harrah’s and The Blackhawk Collection.

For many SAAB enthsuiasts, this may be their only opportunity to see these cars up close and is an opportunity not to be missed.The GM Heritage Center is not open to the public, so the only way to see the collection is by attending an event where they are displayed.

Thanks again go out to our sponsors for their support this year:

* Lehman SAAB
* Don Fatzinger Automotive
* SAAB of Baltimore (formerly Hunt Valley SAAB)
* GM Heritage Collection
* Corvette Bar & Grille
* Troeg’s Brewery
* SLD Lighting & Sound
* Bully’s Restaurant & Pub
* The Stitch Agency
* Genuinesaab. com
* Jak Stoll Performance

We extend our thanks to the following pre-registrants (lots of new names this year!):

* Matt Vadenais ,Rhode Island
* Marvin Goldstein & Carol Yusis , New Jersey
* Adan Swagger ,Connecticut
* Jak Stoll ,North Carolina
* Jeffrey Shore and Brittany Benson ,Pennsylvania
* Norman and Carol Shore , Pennsylvania
* Paul Pocavich and Jim Bartlett ,Pennsylvania
* Pat Quinlan ,Massachuesetts
* Kai Stanton & Patricia Mere ,New York
* Jeff Zeilinger,Pennsylvania
* Pete Vella and Adam Jenks ,Vermont
* Lawrence Feer ,Connecticut
* David & Jan Sprouse , Virginia
* Jonathan Schaller , New York
* Bryan Sladky ,Pennsylvania
* Chip Lamb , Virginia
* Bob Adams , Pennsylvania
* Clayton Wright , Rhode Island
* Bill Wyman & Shauna Tyler ,New Hampshire
* Paul and Chris Black ,Pennsylvania
* Ian McConnell, Pennsylvania
* Allen Geffert, Pennsylvania
* Brennen Arndt, Zak Dewalt and Galen Alleger, Pennsylvania
* Michael Crowley, New York
* Brandon Newman and Joby Trice, Vermont
* Bruce & Lori Turk,VSCNA, New York
* Mike & Sherry Connelly,Rhode Island
* Brad Lauzze, New York
* Alex Nowrouzi and Benny Chong, New Jersey
* Terry Dahbi,Pennsylvania
* Jim Breault,New Hampshire
* Jeff Bartlett, Virginia
* Al Sorokach,New Jersey
* Brent Yastremski, New York
* Adam Brown, New York
* David Ermert, Connecticut
* Tim Soboda, CPSC, Pennsylvania
* Chris Musumeci, New Hampshire
* Ron Augelli, Ron Augelli, Jr. & Rachel Ward, NEPASC, Pennsylvania
* Chris Fields, Massachusetts
* Daryle Powers and Mark Crump, North Carolina
* Nathan Bookbinder, New York
* John, Gaylene & Ehren Webber, CPSC, Pennsylvania
* Jonathan Szucs,New Jersey
* Carl & Linda LaRoche, Virginia
* Mark Blackey, Massachusetts
* Timothy Swanick, New York
* David Lyons, Virginia
* Shane Abdalla, SAABLink, New York
* Renwick Jones, New York
* James Gorden, New York
* Nat Stewart, New York
* John Clark, New York
* Steve Murray, New York
* Tiqe Mohamed, New York
* Dany Ernest, New York
* Roland George, New York
* Kester Hood, New York < * Mary & Todd Campisano, Kentucky

They join our other early registrants, including Rob Riccardelli (#1 registration in 2007!), John Sizer, Glen Atchinson & Debbie Ortensi, Zach Wallace, Dave & Lani Collins, Andrea Mills, Dan Capozzelli, Jim & Val Miller, Ron Nichipor, Jeremy Reed and Chris & Debra Goodman, Bernie Brill, John Heckman, Dean Yusi & Saravia Viviana, John Heckman, Paul Havranek, Phil Hutchinson, Bill & Joanne Clark, Todd Coggeshall, Jim Margrave, Jeff Proposki, Frank & Cindy Bailey, Richard & Nancy Schoonmaker, Tom Cox, Jim & Doreen Verga, Dennis & Wendy FitzGerald, Mike Campbell, Jonathan Williams & Denise Moore, Ian Cooper, Joe Caparosa & Joe Caparosa, Jr. , Thomas McKimm, Ian Whelan & Tamara Schuler, Garret Sundstrom, Don Fatzinger, Daniel Meade & Robin Adair, Shane Moser, Randy, Coleen & Siobhan Rude, Lynn & Judy Shaffer, Joe Long, Donald Rowe, Mike Beare, Matt Abbott, George Basehore, Marc & Diane Fails, Jeff Henderson, Josh Tamarkin & Heather Benson, Cedric Boyd, Tweek Hinkle, Brian Maskrey, Steve Bardowski, John Hulsberg, Daniel Riga & Dan Shelly, John del Rosario, Seth Bengelsdorf, Basil Burns, Frank Hum, Dan Gilson, Linnea Krajewski, Chatham Sinclair, Robert Spryn, Thor Carlson, Rich Kushner, Alan Snelson, Chris "Troll" & Marjo Larsen, John Desenberg & Erin Arnold, John Lausch, Alan Mede, Marlon & Erla Vaz, Ali Beaton and Dwight Benecke.

We eagerly look forward to seeing everyone again very soon!

Your Friends in the Central Penn SAAB Club

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