Beautiful Weekend For A Saab Gathering

This past weekend was our 6TH Annual Springtime in Sweden Saab show in memory of Kyle and Tim. What a beautiful weekend it was. With the temperature reaching 91 degrees on Saturday, we had a great turn out. People came from all over the Northeast.
Just in case some of you don't know why we do this, it is because Kyle had a passion for Saab's and Tim was right behind him. Kyle would spend countless hours working on his Saab to make it just the way he wanted it to be. Tim was always right there with him. At 18, Kyle was already on his third Saab that he bought and sold. We started him off with his first Saab because we weren't going to put our old one on the road. We told him that he could sell it, fix it or whatever he wanted to do with it. That was at 16.
Both boys had always wished that they cold have a gathering in our back yard but, never got the chance. You see we have almost three acres of fields. So with that being said, Springtime in Sweden was born. The reason for the name of the event is, Kyle had a dream car that we never knew about. We only found out about this special car after the boys had died. Kyle used to chat with a group of Saab enthusiast all over the world. It was amazing to find out how many lives that he touched through this chatting. We were presented with a book of all the entries from the night they died and for days after at the Saab owners convention in Hershey PA. 19 months after they died. This book is treasured as it let us take a look into a part of Kyle's and Tim's lives that we weren't aware of the impact that they had on people all over the world. The entries in this book are so touching. With that being said we found out about this car through all of these people that he communicated with. They all knew about this special car and let us know what it was. It was a 1988 SIS Saab. There were only about 400 made in the world. These friends of the boys set out to find us one. They had success and they went to look at it before we would buy it. Well, we bought it. It is now in west Virgina being restores. That's another story for another day. Anyway SIS stands for Springtime in Sweden.
Eventually we would go to another one of the Saab owners conventions and find another SIS car, which we have in our possession.
Every year at this convention they present an award in memory of Kyle and Tim for young people under 21 that enter their car in the show. When ever we can we go to present the award. We probably won't be able to attend this year because it is in Colorado.
We would like to thank everyone who attended and help make this year a great success.
We also made Emma a little Saab out of Kyle's orignial Little Tykes car (24 years old) and made her a sign for her to park her car.