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I got this email to the SoCal SAAB Club address today and thought I would pass it on to everyone who is on the west coast.
Hi:
My name is Jeff Koch, and I am a California-based writer/photographer for Hemmings Publishing, including the brand-new glossy magazines Hemmings Sports and Exotics, a catch-all title for performance-minded European and Japanese vehicles.
HSX's editor, Craig Fitzgerald, has sent me on a mission: he wants factory-fresh (restored or unrestored, no matter as long as it's clean) original sporting Saabs in the pages of the magazine, and sooner rather than later. This is an open invitation to club members with appropriate vehicles to email me a couple of quickie jpegs (exterior and engine are all I really need) and a brief list of what makes this particular car special and worthy of inclusion (ie, all-original? Original owner? Smuggled into the country in pieces and it's the only one like it here?). Electronic photos are easier for us to deal with and will get approval more quickly than prints that are snail-mailed to me.
Models we're searching for would include (but are not limited to): any two-stroke or V4 model with an interesting history, any Sonett, 99, any 99 or 900 Turbo, or any 9000 Turbo through about 1992 or so. I've left some of the last 15 years' worth of cars out on purpose, as we'd like to concentrate on the older machinery at this point. Japan-spec cars (ie RHD, trim differences) would be of interest to our readers as well.
We do a couple of different kinds of stories:
· Drive Reports. The car is not only comprehensively photographed, but is also driven, so our reporters can give readers who have never driven an MG a sense of what it’s like.
· Comparison. We pit two cars against each other—less to determine a winner than to get a sense of the different approaches that different car makers take to achieve the same ends. This also required the writer/photographer (me) to go for a short drive.
· Restoration Profiles. The owner will provide comprehensive photos of his car before and during restoration, while we take the after shots. No driving necessary.
· Drivable Dreams. This is a regularly-driven, unrestored, slightly rough-and-tumble car that wears its scars and physical flaws like badges of honor. Cracked upholstery, rock chips, and high mileage are all encouraged.
Can you please possibly connect me with the owners of clean, original cars like those listed above, who might be interested in seeing their car in a nationally published magazine? I'd love to communicate with them. Assuming they don't live in the snow belt I can pop around to take my own shots. (I live in Southern California, and simply for geography's sake owners in this area stand the best chance of getting my attention; I also travel to Northern California/Bay Area, Phoenix and Las Vegas quite a bit. That said, our main office is in Vermont and anything in the New England/upstate New York area could be of interest too during the spring and summer months.)
Any story we do will of course give your club, and any others the car owner feels is helpful to a Saab fan, a plug in the magazine. If you could, please post this on your site somewhere you think the most people will read it; if you feel it warrants mention in a newsletter as well, feel free to print it. Please include my email address, jkoch at hemmings.com, to any interested parties, who may contact me at their leisure. This is an open invitation and I'm happy to hear from everyone.
If you have any questions or clarifications please contact me!
I thank you in advance for your time and consideration.
Sincerely.
Jeff Koch
West Coast Associate Editor
Hemmings Sports and Exotics
jkoch at hemmings.com
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