INTO THE WILD WITH YOUR OLD OR NEW SCHOOL DREAM CAR

For the ultimate rally road trip once around the Baltic Sea up to the Arctic Circle, your rally vehicle must meet only one requirement: It must have style! Whether old school or new school, it's the spirit of adventure that counts.

Look for your old school or new school dream car: Volvo 240 with spoiler, Mercedes-Benz D200 with lambskin covers, VW Beetle in sky blue. Or get yourself the Eastern Bloc all-purpose weapon with four-wheel drive, the Lada Niva. Also the lovers of plastic cars from Zwickau are welcome to make your old Trabi fit again for the Baltic Sea Circle.

Newtimer, classic & vintage cars, individual and with character, are the perfect adventure vehicles for this unique challenge. 

Your great aunt got herself a brand spankin’ new SUV and you got her old ride – that ol’ lemon of a jalopy of a junker that’s currently rusting away in the driveway, right? Maybe you should consider searching the Internet to find your dream machine. You might be surprised at the number of affordable, quality cars that are offered on some used-car websites that’ll be perfect for your roadtrip and will also comply with the rules of the Baltic Sea Circle.

You can participate in the rally with any normal, roadworthy vehicle—no special modifications are required.

Modifying, upgrading, pimping, lowering, raising... All of this is of course also permitted. So, if you want to spend a lot of money converting your car into the ultimate rally vehicle, you are allowed to do so.
All modifications must of course be road legal and comply with the technical inspection regulations of the country in which the vehicle is registeredd.

That’s up to you! How about just happily driving it home, you full of adventure and the car full of luggage, and rolling up in it again next year for the next rally?!

In all SAC Rallyes, resources are conserved and cultural assets are protected by the preservation and use of modern classic or vintage cars. It is a sign against the throwaway society and against the general consumer behaviour. To purchase a new, "fuel-efficient" leasing vehicle every 2 years causes as much CO₂ during the production of the vehicle as driving a modern classic or vintage car for 10 years through the countryside.
In the context of the Baltic Sea Circle the participants travel 10 countries in 16 days and cause thereby per person not even the half of the CO₂ emission of a flight to Mallorca for a long weekend.
Also, the long-lasting impression of this adventure and the experience of the different cultures remains for years. In contrast to an air trip, here the way is still the goal.

Since vehicles, no matter if electric vehicle or classic car, always emit CO₂, we ask each team for an ECO compensation for the chosen rally vehicle and the driven distance.
The CO₂ emissions caused by each rally team can thus be offset elsewhere by supporting climate protection projects.