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Any word on the registry?

R.R.

We just made arrangements for another print run.
They should be back in stock within a month...or sooner.

[SAAC-51 Website]

We have opened a SAAC-51 Website on our club server, saac.com

We will use this as a central repository for convention information. As new data becomes available, we will continue to post here on the forum, but updated docs will reside on saac.com

We have a lot more to add as plans are formulated, so check the site often

If you see errors, or want to see MORE info posted there or info that might be missing, let us know. Remember, at this point, there is quite a lot of info yet to be released.
Mail to: pitcrew@saac.com

SAAC-51 WEBSITE

[each vendor spot includes TWO 3-day Gate Passes]

Does this apply to guys wanting to just setup a table to sell or swap parts?

Space is at a premium this year, plus we want and need to keep all sellers in one area.
Every seller will get a reserved space.

Even for swap-meet-style sellers, you must reserve a space... in this case, 10 x 20.

Not so bad, since each vendor spot includes TWO 3-day Gate Passes, which normally are $50 per pass. In recent Conventions, we gave swap space for free, but you had to buy the weekend passes.
...so this is essentikally a wash

The Candlewood is a new hotel that is next to the Best Western Plus. They are about 8 miles from the track.

We will consider these hotels as the "Host Hotel Combo," but there are no official activities at either hotel.

As mentioned above, we will have private security patrolling the parking areas of the Best Western and the Candlewood; we will not have that at the Baymont.

The Baymont Inn is our overflow hotel and is located a few miles South of the track.

[Vendor Spaces Available]

Here are some important facts to help you plan your event registration.
We are sharing the event space with MCA and have split responsibilities

This year, there are unusual and unique requirements placed on us, resulting from the integration and track rules.

Contact registration@saac.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.
Contact pitcrew@saac.com with questions about the event logistics or individual SAAC components

Vendor Spaces Available -
Multiple Booth Spaces can be purchased.
Vendor space is at a premium and must be reserved in advance.
If you have specific requirements, please complete the requirements section on the form and we will contact you.

Standard Booth - 10x20 - $100

Double Booth - 20x20 - $200

Tractor Trailer 25 X 100 - $1000.00

Click here to reserve space

[RV and Camping]

Here are some important facts to help you plan your event registration.
We are sharing the event space with MCA and have split responsibilities

This year, there are unusual and unique requirements placed on us, resulting from the integration and track rules.

Contact registration@saac.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.
Contact pitcrew@saac.com with questions about the event logistics or individual SAAC components

RV and Camping

There are a limited number of RV spaces available so get your registration in as soon as possible. 
RV Space - Includes Water and Electricity!
You may reserve individual days, or all weekend. 
THERE IS NO SUNDAY NIGHT STAY AVAILABLE!

Camping ONLY can also be reserved - no hookup!
THERE IS NO CAMPING ON SUNDAY NIGHT!  You may reserve individual days, or all weekend.

Link to reserve RV space or Camping -- Click here

Golf Carts

The track has a golf cart vendor for exclusive use. We usually are able to offer golf cart rental at a discounted rate.
Not so, this year. The rates are crazy high, so we cannot finance that feature at SAAC-51

If you must have a cart... you may contract directly with the designated rental company

https://cgcbraselton.net/

If you plan on bringing your own conveyance (Golf cart or pit bike, etc.),
please review the track Motorized Vehicle Policy and Guidelines.

Click here for their policy


 

Here are some important facts to help you plan your event registration.

Contact registration@saac.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.
Contact pitcrew@saac.com with questions about the event logistics or individual SAAC components

We are planning a full slate of activities at SAAC-51

As always, we will have Parade Laps, this year, on Friday and Saturday only.

There are two SAAC exhibitions--  SAAC Concours Judging on Saturday and SAAC Popular Vote Car Show on Sunday.

And this year, an Autocross circuit will be available,on Friday and Saturday.

Our dinner will be off premises on Friday night. We are plannng a joint dinner with MCA, so space is limited. Tickets may be purchased on the Registration page.

All of these are available for booking on the SAAC Pre-Registration page

Off track, we are in the process of planning a Road Tour on Thursday Afternoon and a really cool Social event on Saturday night.

Details are still in the planning stages; registration will be available by a separate methold when available, but we have included the ability to express your interest in either on the Registration page,

[Best Western Plus]

Here are some important facts to help you plan your event registration.

Contact registration@saac.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.
Contact pitcrew@saac.com with questions about the event logistics or individual SAAC components

We have three hotels reserved with discounted rates.

Best Western and Candlewood are side by side, and we will have 24 hour security for both of these parking areas.

Best Western Plus
4535 Oakwood Rd.
Oakwood, GA 30566
770.535.8080
Copy and paste this code before clicking the link:  3G6SP8M3
Best Western Online Link - Click Here


Candlewood Suites
3757 Mundy Mill Drive
Oakwood, GA 30566
877-226- 3539
Click Here to Book Online


Baymont Inn & Suites by Wyndham
2069 Hwy. 211 NW
Braselton, GA 30517
Phone Direct: (770) 867-8100 - mention "Shelby American Automobile Club (SAAC)"
Booking Link:
Click here to register online

Here are some important facts to help you plan your event registration.
We are sharing the event space with MCA and have split responsibilities

This year, there are unusual and unique requirements placed on us, resulting from the integration and track rules.

Contact registration@saac.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.
Contact pitcrew@saac.com with questions about the event logistics or individual SAAC components

Open Track registration.
For control and liability purposes, there will be ONE Open Track signup system, where you will register, choose your details and pay.

This will be a separate site from the SAAC registration site.

Signing up for Open Track will INCLUDE your admmission fees to the event, including two 3-day gate passes. This will be done on Motorsportsreg for the purpose of collecting common details and waivers.

That site will be a unified site, managed by MCA.

Again, MCA has responsibilities for On Track Management; you will register for the SAAC event items on our Registration page...
If you are planning to run Open Track, you will only Regjster for SAAC-51 on  our page, without purchasing an admission package....
you will then visit the Unified Open Track Reg page to sign up and purchase the track time.

The link for Open Track Registration at SAAC-51 is -->
 

SAAC-51 Open Track REGISTRATION

Here are some important facts to help you plan your event registration.
We are sharing the event space with MCA and have split responsibilities

This year, there are unusual and unique requirements placed on us, resulting from the integration and track rules.

Contact registration@saac.com if you have any difficulties with the registration process.
Contact pitcrew@saac.com with questions about the event logistics or individual SAAC components

Event  Admission is $50 per person, 16 and over, for a 3-day pass.
This can be collected at the gate; you can also pay this gate fee at pre-registration, with an optional FREE entry into the SAAC Car Show.

Two 3-day passes are INCLUDED with Open Track  and Concours judging entries, so need not be purchased there.

A bonus package is available at SAAC Pre-registration:--
3 day registration for two, including a FREE optional entry into the SAAC Popular Vote Car Show.
That package is available at pre-registration. That is the best deal.

Additional fees for single day admission is $20 per single day, payable at the gate, as well as single 3-day passes at $50.

The bulk of SAAC Pre-registration will be for the various activities and advance purchase of merchandise.

The link for SAAC-51  Registration is -->

SAAC-51 REGISTRATION

For sure, I'm amped up about the joint Mustang Club of America and Shelby American Automobile Club anniversary celebrations at Road Atlanta on August 28-30. Both national (and worldwide) clubs have prominently co-existed for five decades-SAAC for 51 years and MCA for 50-but never have the two organizations merged, their collective memberships into a single event.
My history with both organizations goes back 50 years, to 1976, when I was a lonely Boss 302 owner in a small town in South Carolina. I knew a few "car guys" around the area but they were mostly drag racers or Mopar fanatics. My main connection to the outside world was the occasional Mustang or Ford article in car magazines during a time when Hot Rod focused on custom vans, Car Craft favored Chevrolets, and Motor Trend covered economy cars. Then fellow Boss 302 owner Danny Rockett invited me to a Fall Shelby meet in Pine Mountain, North Carolina, hosted by Bill and Kathy Harris with the Carolina Region of the Shelby American Automobile Club. When I drove into the parking lot filled with Shelbys, Cobras, and Boss Mustangs, I knew I had found a home.
Around the same time, I spotted a small ad in Hemmings Motor News for an Atlanta-based club called the Mustang Club of America. I quickly joined and became member #775.
Both clubs had magazines-MCA's monthly Mustang Times and SAAC's bi-monthly The Marque-and I suddenly found myself connected to other Mustang owners throughout the country. In Mustang Times, I saw the names Jim Osborn, Bill Dillard, Gary Goddard, and Larry Dobbs. In The Marque, I read about Austin Craig, Rick Kopec, Jim Wicks, J Bittle, and Tony Branda. I never imagined that the time would soon come when I could call all of them my friends. Of course, by 1980, Dobbs was my boss at Mustang Monthly.
I'll admit that, during the late 1970s, I was more involved with SAAC than MCA Although I attended nearby MCA shows, including the 1978 Grand National in Atlanta where my Boss 302 garnered the Best Paint award, I was more active in SAAC, which had accepted the 1969-70 Boss 302s because Shelby had campaigned Boss 302s in the 1969 Trans-Am series. With encouragement from then-SAAC President Austin Craig, I signed on as SAAC's South Carolina Regional Director, attended SAAC-4 in Pennsylvania and SAAC-5 in Dearborn, and contributed photos and stories to The Marque, which kick-started my career.
Ironically, when I came aboard as Mustang Times editor in 2014, Austin Craig was on the MCA Board of Directors serving as publisher. In another coincidence, MCA regional group Mustang Club of Northeast Georgia can trace the roots of its Fall Regional Mustang, Shelby, and Ford Meet-now held annually in Hiawassee, Georgia-back to the Shelby meet that I attended in Pine Mountain (and later Cherokee), North Carolina, in the mid-1970s.
MCA and SAAC have followed similar paths over the past 50 years, with MCA focusing on Mustangs (initially 1965-73 only until expanding to all Mustangs in 1986) and SAAC devoted to the cars from Shelby American. Both clubs host track events and have established respected concours judging rules. MCA has presented major Mustang anniversary events and worked with Ford to create 2011-14 MCA Edition Mustangs. SAAC's annual national convention is a mecca for Shelby owners, and, in 1992, the club developed its own SAAC Mark 1 high-performance Fox-body Mustang. SAAC has also published a trio of massive (as in over 1,000 pages) Shelby Registries that document the history of all 1965-67 Shelbys, 1968-70 Shelbys, and Cobras/GT-40s.
As you can see, over the past 50 years, MCA and SAAC have contributed tremendously to the fun and camaraderie that we enjoy as Mustang owners and Ford enthusiasts. The combination MCA 50th Anniversary and SAAC-51 is going to be a blast.

Can someone tell me if the 2025 Annual has mailed out yet? I have yet to receive my copy and thought I would ask. Thanks

It has been at the printer for more than a week.

The print house does the tagging, bagging and mailing... so it should be very soon

Thanks!! That explains it 100%
Any word on the registry?

R.R.

I'm checking for you

Ah-HA!  I dug into this.

Look at your Checkout Page and see your Country selection to be "Canada"

Apparently, it's converting the $25 USD to $35 CDN based on an approx. 1.36 to 1 conversion rate.

Hmmm... the book is listed in the SAAC store for $25.00

Can you show me where it states "$35.00" and I'll fix it.