The Saab Club of Canada

The first Saturday of EVERY month, YEAR ROUND, is the Swedish Meet Ball now at our new location – IKEA Etobicoke.

Join us from 10am to 1 pm on Saturday, December 7th, 2024 for this month’s instalment. Etobicoke IKEA is located at 1475 The Queensway, Etobicoke, ON M8Z 1T3.

All Volvos and SAABs and those who love them are welcome to attend. While this is an official Saab Club of Canada event, you do NOT need to be a Saab Club of Canada member! Come and meet old friends and make some new ones and enjoy a breakfast or lunch at the IKEA restaurant as well. Please feel free to share this or even send invitations to any Swedish car lover you know. See you there!

Join us at 10am the first Sunday of every month at Vaughan Ikea for a Swedish Meet Ball. We’ll be at the South end of the Ikea parking lot at 200 Interchange Way, Concord, ON L4K 5C3, Canada, October 6, 2024 from 10 AM to 1 PM. All Volvos and SAABs and those who love them are welcome to attend. While this is an official Saab Club of Canada event, you do NOT need to be a Saab Club of Canada member! Come and meet old friends and make some new ones and enjoy a breakfast or lunch at the IKEA restaurant as well. Please feel free to share this or even send invitations to any Swedish car lover you know. See you there!

Join us for our SECOND “Swedish MEET Ball” at IKEA Scarborough Town Centre, 300 Borough Dr, Scarborough, ON M1P 4P5 on Sunday, October 27, 2024 from 1-4 PM. All Volvos and SAABs and those who love them are welcome to attend, and while this is an official Saab Club of Canada event, you do NOT need to be a Saab Club of Canada member! Come and meet old friends and make some new ones and enjoy a breakfast or lunch at the IKEA restaurant as well. Please feel free to share this or even send invitations to any Swedish car lover you know. See you there!
Photo by Laita Photography

Sunday October 20^th 2024

Please register by e-mailing [email protected] by Thursday October 17th if possible

What is a Car Rally?

• A Navigation and Timing driving event over a specified route
• Can be a serious “TSD” time speed distance with route instructions that are challenging (this one is easy to follow)
• Can be a navigation only route
• Can in professional competition be on “closed roads” (not here we are on public roads at the speed limit)
• Can include requirement to see things on route (photo or ?)
• This event is an easy navigation and timing route with questions and answers needed on the route.

What do you need

• An automobile
• Driver and Navigator in the same car (2 people per car)
• Clipboard or folder for the navigator
• Pen or Pencil for the navigator
• A watch for the time of day
• Drive at the designated speeds (allowance for stop signs is built in by the rally organizer)
• Stay on the route (this one is not difficult)

Where do we start from
994227 Mono-Adjala Townline, Orangeville ON L9W 2Z2

• Hockley Valley General Store
• Arrive 9:00 and 9:30 am
• Coffee & baked goods available at the store
• Driver’s meeting 9:50 am in the north side of the store parking lot
• 1^st Car away 10:00 am sharp

Where we will end

• Orangeville Ontario in a restaurant
• About 1:00 pm
• Hand in Rally instructions
• Enjoy Lunch while the rally organizer scores the rally

The route

• Primarily through Caledon
• Instructions given15 seconds before your car leaves
• Each car leaves at a 1-minute interval from the start
• Have fun and stay calm

Typical rally instructions

• CAS… commence an average speed
• R… right turn
• L at TL…left at traffic light
• AR…acute right ( a turn of more than 90 degrees)
• BL…bear left (less than 90 degrees)
• SSO…stop straight on
• SS…stop sign
• Mileages…62.39
• A “tulip diagram”proceed from the dot to the arrow

• And example instruction… instruction # 45, proceed at 45 kph, follow the road from the dot to the arrowhead, you will be passing the 3^rd line, at about kilometer 23.79 on the route

Stan East

Saab Club Director