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Saab 96 at the Langenburg Historic Races in Germany
Published on 26 April 2012 14:25 Number of Views: 8156
Today I went to Langenburg, a city about an hour from here, where they hold an annual race weekend. I found out about it late Saturday, and only made it there for Sunday afternoon, so I missed all the action on Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning. On Friday night they had a night race that is more a parade of cars, Saturday there was a regularity rally, then Sunday morning there was a tourist rally, and Sunday afternoon a hillclimb. I was there for the hillclimb. The historic races are for cars and motorcycles over 40 years old, but they make exceptions for newer cars of historical value.
There were a lot of cars there, and they varied from Fiat 500s to Ford GT-40, Porsche factory race cars to old Rapiers and Lagondas, as well as one beautiful SAAB 96 V4. My favorite car of the day was a DeDion Dutton made in 1908, a 104 year old race car, the car had 45 horsepower, brass all over, wooden brakes, and once stopped the radiator leaked water all over the place.
I took 2749 photos today, so I am sorting through them and will be uploading the best, in the meantime I chose a few ones to do a quick upload and share with you guys.
The vehicles doing the race were parked in public, you could touch them, and if you asked nicely they would let you get in them. Here is a sexy Alfa Romeo. Alfa was surprisingly the most popular brand there, there must have been a dozen Alfas.
One single SAAB representing the brand. Talking to a few of the car guys on site they all think SAAB is the next classic brand now that they're gone.
SAAB 96 on the end of its hill-climb run
Many more pictures of the other cars and motor bikes in the forum thread: http://saabworld.net/f142/langenburg...c-races-25841/
This article was originally published in forum thread: Langenburg Historic Races started by rpiereck View original post
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