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It’s taken a bit of organisation, but the great TS Pacific Northwest Meetup is finally planned and ready to go. If you’re in the BC lower mainland, Washington or even in Oregon, September 6 is the day and we’d love for you to be able to come along, say G’day, kick some tyres (ok, tires), have a drive and then some good food to finish the day.
The big gathering will begin at 3pm at the XXX Root Beer facility at 98 NE Gilman Blvd, Issaquah. Here’s your Google Map.
We’ll meet there and have a nice long look over each other’s cars before embarking on the Saab Club of Seattle’s Flogging Loop – click to enlarge.
That loop will see us end up at the Issaquah Brew House, where good old fashioned pub food will be available, as well as a responsible amount of the Brew House’s primary product. Friends don’t let friends drive their Saabs whilst drunk, so if you indulge too much I’ll have to confiscate your Saab for the duration of my holiday 
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You Washington types can just make your way there at a liesurely pace. For those of you leaving from Vancouver, like me, the day is going to start a lot earlier.
We’ll be meeting under the flags at the IKEA outlet in Coquitlam at 9am. After a little bit of getting-to-know-you we’ll head south for the border and then on to the meeting point at XXX Root Beer.
Why such an early start? The border corssing, of course, which could be as quick as 30 minutes or as long as 3 hours. If it’s quick, we’ll have some time to kill, but SaabKen has a drive up his sleeve if that situation eventuates.
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It’s going to be a great day, and it’ll involve members from several different car clubs:
The Saab Club of Western Canada
The Saab Club of Seattle
Northwest Saab Owners Club
It’ll also involve a bunch of people who aren’t members of those clubs, but are interested in Saab stuff and have been in touch through Trollhattan Saab.
It’s going to be a great day and I hope you can all make it along. Great cars, great people, great driving. There’ll be heaps of photos to come.
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UPDATE:
The guys at XXX Rootbeer have been very accommodating, reserving plenty of parking for us and Jose from XXX is willing to throw in some tickets for drawings for XXX t-shirts and such (it’s a business promotion opportunity for XXX).
So, come along, meet some fellow Saab nuts and maybe you’ll come away with some XXX goodies as well!
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I’d like to thanks SaabKen (SCWC), James from (SSC) and Tim S (Viggen owner extraordinaire and member of NWSOC) for their help in planning the day.
It took some time, but we got there in the end!
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20 responses so far ↓
1 Robin M
// Aug 29, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Have a great day you guys, sounds like it should be very exciting and interesting. We would like to join you but Kerry and I will be in Sweden, hopefully driving a Saab or two. Robin.
2 Ryan McLean
// Aug 29, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Oh man, I lived in WA for a few years and Issaquah/Bellevue was my stomping grounds for a short while. You’re inducing all sorts of nostalgia on me, and so just take me up on this word of advice: Skip the XXX burger and get something a little smaller! You’ll thank me later if you do!!
3 Rogan
// Aug 29, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hey swade, wanna take a vacation down to New Mexico any time soon?
4 ELBOBO
// Aug 30, 2008 at 1:19 am
oooh this sounds fun!! Should I bring the 2008 9-5 aero or the 2003 Wagon aero…Hmmmmm.
Chris
5 SaabKen
// Aug 30, 2008 at 4:46 am
Elbobo: bring the ‘08 9-5 !
6 ELBOBO
// Aug 30, 2008 at 4:56 am
Can do!!
7 PGAero
// Aug 30, 2008 at 7:04 am
Hey all,
Sounds like fun. How fitting that you’ll be cruising on Issaquah-Hobart Rd. I’m a bit too far away, (Lake Tahoe, CA), but I’ll wish you guys all the best. Enjoy the drive.
~P
8 James
// Aug 30, 2008 at 7:59 am
This is going to be an interesting gathering.
) If anything,it’ll cushion the blow from the Imperial IPAs, Old Crustacean, or the Barley Wine that he will be consuming c/o Rogue brewery. We play hard at SCS.
Swade, you need to be introduce to the XXX burger (sorry Ryan, he just HAS to). Besides, it will lighten the finances for the Issaquah Brew House after the run
9 tom
// Aug 30, 2008 at 12:56 pm
best to you all
only wish i could be there
;(
10 blackturbo
// Aug 30, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Just to be clear. There will be NWSOC members there, but it is not a sponsored NWSOC event. Come on down!
11 zippy
// Sep 2, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I totally forgot I have to work on Saturday.
12 SaabKen
// Sep 2, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Zippy …… won’t you be “sick” this Saturday ? [wink]
Well if you really can’t make it, sorry to hear.
13 James
// Sep 4, 2008 at 9:09 am
Despite the reference to SCS (the flogging loop), this is not an SCS “Sponsored” event, either – but I don’t think anyone cares, as long as there are Saabs to look at, and fans to talk to. Let’s just go have some fun.
14 swade
// Sep 4, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I won’t know exactly what it is until tomorrow (Thur), but the good news is in: I got a Saab to drive for the event!!
Will update whan I know more.
15 SaabKen
// Sep 4, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Yahoo !! Way to go, Swade. Kudos to Saab Canada. Can’t wait to see what it is.
16 Grackle
// Sep 4, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Swade: After sending you all those links about Seattle and BC footy (and who to call to get a guaranteed ringer position to play in the match)… looks like I can’t make it up. For a start, I’m Saabless for the first time since 1999– we’re moving to Germany at the end of the month, and I had to sell my beloved 9-5 (only the 204th to come off of the assembly line, and one of the oldest in North America). Fear not: I’ll continue to visit TS regularly, and your site has inspired me: I’m seriously looking into exporting Saab 90’s to the States– I’d never heard of this model until a few weeks ago! Hoist a pint for me, and happy motoring.
Cheers,
Gregg Z.
Portland, Oregon
USA
17 DanC
// Sep 5, 2008 at 8:49 am
Have juggled the family schedule so it looks like I can make it. See you in Issaquah!
18 Swade
// Sep 5, 2008 at 3:05 pm
DanC, that’s great news! TeamD is in the house!
Gregg, that’s unfortunate, but please understand that non-Saabs are welcome, too. Until hearing from Saab yesterday, I was going to be turning up in a Ford Explorer! If that’s the barrier, please don’t worry about it. If not, then all the best, esp with the move.
19 eggsngrits
// Sep 6, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Alright, we need to”organise” a Southern-fried meetup. I’m insanely jealous!!
Have fun guys. All is well, I’ve got the con.
20 SaabKen
// Sep 7, 2008 at 12:44 am
Oooooh, I’m good for southern-fried anything (but SF chicken steak does me nicely), but it’d be way too far for me to go down to Nashville, Mike. Can you send some to me via air-mail ?