Greetings fellow Saabers! Now is the time to prepare your super-swedes for autumn! Do you have fresh winter weight oil in your SAAB? Are your Hakkapeliittas full of tread? Has your coolant been changed in the past three years, and is it good to -40 F?

Meyer Garage's Open Houses were awesome! Thanks to Marty and Annette for a couple of fun excuses to get the old SAABs out! We trust that the Iowa City location will continue to prove to be successful, and let's push for another 40 strong years!

Last month's meeting was very interesting and informative as we learned about the basics on how to navigate your SAAB 340 passenger turbo-prop or Viggen through the friendly skies above from our 20+ year member, Max Levine. Thanks Max! For this month's meeting, we will be watching two really cool SAAB videos from the past. The first will be a 50 minute video on the history of SAAB as originally broadcast on "The History Channel" about ten years ago. The second video runs about 25 minutes, and is entitled, "Masters of the Wheel", and is vintage footage of Erik 'On-the-Roof' Carlsson and others wielding the mighty steering wheel of 92s, 93s, and 96s. . . .

Next Saturday, October 9th is the latest version of the Mississippi River Saab Tour! Peak or near-peak fall colors will be your canvas as we tour some of the best roads for scenery, fall colors, and driving fun in the upper Midwest.

We'll reprise a previous spring tour route (with a few new twists and turns) starting at Pikes Peak State Park near McGregor, Iowa (northeast Iowa, across the Mississippi and a few miles south of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin) and finish Saturday afternoon at Grandad's Bluff, overlooking the city of LaCrosse, WI. We'll start meeting at Pikes Peak at 10:00 a.m., and start touring at 11:30 a.m. A route map is ready for emailing. On-tour communication will be on FRS channel 1 (no privacy tones) , and I'll be monitoring that channel before the tour. No radio? No problem.

Saturday morning, October 16th, we will have our regular fall adopt-a-highway cleanup for the Minnesota SAAB Club's stretch of highway near the intersection of highways 52 south and hwy 56 near Hampton, MN. The gang will meet up at "Little Oscar's Restaurant", located in highway 52 in Hampton, at 8 AM for a FREE breakfast before the cleanup! The cleanup will last between 1-2 hours, depending on how many show up, so come on! Now's your chance to help the environment and get your exercise all at the same time!

-Quality road tested SAAB parts available

at great prices! Need a part for your stroker,

Sonett, 99, 900, or 9000 turbo? Call

612-250-6788 to place your order today!

-1984 SAAB 900S 4-door for sale. 133K miles,

5-spd, many, many items replaced recently. Two

sets of wheels/tires. Body has a bit of rust, but not

bad. Interior has headliner falling down, but

otherwise okay. We're seeking $1,200 OBO.

Michael Blumfield
651-227-4170 (home)
612-305-2052 (work)

-2002 Saab Viggen, red, black leather, loaded w/ moonroof, 15,000
miles, perfect condition. I am willing to part with this car for $23,000.

It is in awesome shape. and if offered by a dealership, would fetch

around $27,000. Contact Robb Buechle at 612-226-0775

See you all there!