Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:40:32 +0200 From: MH <nonospamo> Subject: Re: Kurt Vonnegut
>> On http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vSAAB/message/26294 there's >> been some discussion if this was really true. It seems there never existed a >> "Saab Cape Cod". > This seems to indicate their was: > http://www.saabhistory.com/2007/04/15/saab-cape-cod-kurt-vonneguts-dealership/ This seems to indicate there was not; ----------- VSAAB -- The Vintage SAAB Mailing List Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:34:41 -0700 From: "Bob Sinclair" <XXXnospamcom> Subject: Re: Kurt Vonnegut a Saab dealer? - VSAAB -- The Vintage SAAB Digest #759 The piece by Mr. Vonnegut referenced by Don Price, http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1726/ is datelined November 24, 2004. He says he was a dealer Saab dealer 33 years earlier, which would be 1971. But he says Saab's had suicide doors and two-stroke engines, etc. back then. Perhaps Mr. Vonnegut wrote the story years earlier, and the dateline is misleading. XXXXXX, I did some digging when I started hearing this story years ago. I also came up dry. Since I kept hearing it from time to time, sometime in the mid to late '70s I asked Ralph Millet if remembered Kurt Vonnegut having been a dealer. (I didn't have the name of the dealership, nor the location other than it was allegedly somewhere on Cape Cod. Ralph, who signed every Sales Agreement (franchise contract) from December of 1956 through his stepping down in the late '60s or so, said he had no recollection of him. I was familiar with the name of every dealership principal from when I joined Saab Motors, Inc. in March of 1958 through when I left the company the first time in January 1962, but also have no recollection of it. Still, the illustration in the article appears to have the address of Cape Cod Saab and a phone number. So maybe he was, but neither Ralph nor I remembered him. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX >> Kurt Vonnegut recently passed away at 84. I have read that he owned and >> managed a SAAB dealership in W. Barnstable, MA in the late 50's and >> maybe even the early 1960's? ----------- -- MH '72 97 '77 96 '78 95 '79 96 '91 900i '95 900SE
