Done and Done - awaiting registration through Central Penn - Whiskey is packed and ready. Car almost ready.

 

Can't wait.

 

I haven't been to Carlisle and would like to go this year. What do folks normally do?

- Go both days, stay over somewhere
- Is one day better than the other (Sat / Sun)?
- Any other suggestions?

 

The normal group of us arrive Friday afternoon/evening and set up "camp" in the camping area on the property. Then we begin drinking and don't stop until Sunday (sometime) before the Auto-X event for those who participate in that. Lots of drinking - food if you bring it or pay for the food passes from Central Penn (which are well worth getting!) And more drinking and cars and parts and such. And we drink! You should go - if you don't you suck.

 

The normal group of us arrive Friday afternoon/evening

Normal? I don't think so.

 

But, do you drink?

Yes - will definitely try to attend.

 

But, do you drink?

Nah, can't touch the stuff ever since I started my path towards becoming a Monk. I gave up booze'n and flooze'n*

 

I have to see what I'm planning on doing for my bday/annual Dewey trip since it's that weekend.

 

lol werent you put in jail last Dewey trip.

 

4 days until Christmas and all of us are like, "OMG can't wait for Carlisle!" :lol:

Hope to have my car back on the showfield next year...more fun than coming as a passenger. In the meantime, I'll practice for the event by drinking a lot.

 

Is it time yet?

 

Yay! I plan on driving up the 79 for this year.

 

Hopefully ill be rollin up in a T5'd classic, which prob aint that exciting anymore but I wanted to come this past year so bad..

 

I've been planning things since the drive home last year! love this show...

 

Not sure what I'd bring up this year. All 4 have been up at one time or another now...

 

Sounds like it's time to get another one to me.

 

I will have the notchback there again, for the 3rd year in a row.

 

Why fix what ain't broke?

 

I'm hoping to have the sonnet ready. maybe both cars this year.

 

Maybe I'll go.

Maybe I'll wont...

 

I might back on the east coast. I'll bring the 5-door, if it makes the drive from CA to PA.

 

I will not be bringing the 9-3. Last year's showfield sticker broke the windshield. Maybe it's Li'l Red's turn. (just to piss off spgproject)

 

Forgive me for asking, and maybe i'm missing something, but how the hell did your sticker break your windshield?

 

Eh, I'm just being stupid. An l-shaped crack formed under the sticker toward the last days of my old windshield.

 

Ah I C, i don't always do so well with figuring out web sarcasm, although if you want to go with that theory anyway, i'll back you up, i'll tell Carlisle to back it off on the adhesive strength this year, i'm sure they'll comply.

 

i really hope we can make it this year......

 

I cant wait for this.

 

Is it time yet?

 

Ahhhh it was warm out today and sunny, so i pulled the Viggen and SPG out of the garage. Just started let idle for a couple fan runs and drove around the block. After 30 days, both fricking cars needed the batteries charged. - What is it about Saabs and batteries?-

But I will be fitting the newly acquired Whale-tail to be "unveiled" at the the show. I Have some big plans this year. Can't wait.

 

SAABs @ Carlisle 2011 almost ready to LAUNCH

Everyone probably already knows that when I get back on the forum, it's getting close to launch time for another SAABs @ Carlisle event, and this year is no different.

On-line registration will be ready very soon, and we will contact everyone on our distribution list through Constant Contact, and will post the link here and on the CPSC website.

For newbies who want to be added to the distribution list, PM me or e-mail me at: neuswede at gmail dot com.

We have alot of NEW stuff in the works, including SAAB's new 9-4X, and several display cars from SAAB's Heritage Collection. Thanks go out to Julie Gardner at Kelly SAAB in Lancaster, PA for helping with this.

Due to budget constraints, SAAB was able to send 6 cars, but we will also be doing a first-ever, "Chairman's Invitational" featuring historically significant SAAB's that will be displayed with the Heritage cars. We hope to have at least 12 more cars, making the total display 18 cars again this year. These will be displayed inside the Big-Top on our showfield, as we've done twice before.

We are reviewing the possibility of LIVE video streaming this year, using several on-site cameras and some ad-hoc uploads. I have a meeting later this afternoon in Carlisle to discuss this and many of our other infrastructure needs in 2011. Suffice it to say, we have been the Number 1 club at Carlisle for an unprecedented 9 straight years, and we aren't through yet. The best is yet to come.

We are setting our goals fairly HIGH this year....anybody up for hitting the 300+ SAAB car count? Yeah, I know...that's alot of SAABs, but what would complete and total global domination be if we didn't at least make our best effort.

That is all for now...more to follow shortly.

Marc