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SAAB Open Wheel Race Car from 1990

Another one of the clever ideas to come out of Saab USA (this one from PR boss Len Lonnegren) in the 1980s was hooking up with John ”Skip” Barber and his racing school, when the folks at Barber used virtually stock 225hp, 2.0-liter four-cylinder Saab 900/9000 Turbo engines to create the entry-level, open-wheel Barber Saab Pro Series that was run from 1987 through 1991.

Barber Saab Pro Series 1

These racers combined a tube-frame Mondiale chassis and a Saab engine, and they were featured in some of Saab’s period advertising. 

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Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_Pro_Series

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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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