Saab History

From Dallas to Sweden: Tour to SAAB headquarters 50 years ago

Kunkle Motors Saab Dealer in DallasKunkle Motors Saab Dealer in Dallas

Here’s an interesting notes on the history of Saab and Saab dealers that happened 50 years ago  1965!

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Meeker, Kunkle Motors, organized a tour in 1965 to SAAB-Sweden headquarters in Linkoping, Sweden.

Saab Factory
Old Saab Factory

On this day in 1965: “Mr. and Mrs. Meeker, owners of Kunkle Motors (Dallas), The oldest continuously owned authorized SAAB dealer in the USA (dealer who is still active), were among some 200 U.S. dealers of the Swedish-made SAAB cars who toured Sweden to attend the annual meeting of American SAAB dealers and see SAAB’s production of both quality automobiles and high-speed jet aircraft.”

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A little info on this trip by Bob Christiansen. Dealers in the Rocky Mtn west (that includes Texas) were services by Rocky Mtn SAAB an independent distributor and were not included in the trip. Bob sent a little note to Ralph Millett at SAAB USA that merely said they’re here too. The next day thyey were part of the trip and it was a great one. Bob’s dealership was in Colorado Springs.

Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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