Saab Skip Barber Series Used Scania Trucks

Posted on 03. Dec, 2007 by Ryan in 2000-2009, Scania Trucks & Busses

Photo Credit: Saab-Scania of America, Inc.

The Saab-Scania Skip Barber Racing series took place according to my records, 1986 until 1991 when the president of Saab-Scania of America, Inc. Robert J. Sinclair, retired in September of 1991.

After going through a number of Saab-Soundings magazines recently acquired, I found that in volume 24, number 2 in 1986 there were photographs included here in this writeup that showcased the Saab-Scania Skip Barber racing series using SCANIA trucks as transport vehicles for the Skip Barber race cars.

I wonder if these SCANIA trucks are still available here in the United States? If they are, I think it would be kind of a nice throwback fashion where they could be updated and restored as transport vehicles once again, but this time for the Saab “Born From Jets” mobile hangar promotion series that Saab Automobile USA began as part of their new advertising slogan in the spring of 2005.

If anyone has any more material from the Saab-Scania Skip Barber arrangement, please contact Saab History so that I can include this material in the archive.

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