umm.. yeah. a little publicity.. As the organizers of the SAAB
Owners Convention last year we had to beg SAAB to even give him
recognition. They ended up giving him a T shirt. Peter contacted
all the local news service folks around the convention site and
managed to have a film crew out there. The PR guy at SAAB did a fair
amount of work to get better things to happen and of course the
President of SAAB USA declared a new program that if you buy a SAAB
and make a million miles SAAB will give you a new car. Of course
service has to be done at a dealer...
Lester
Then President of the SAAB Owners Club of North America
current VP of SCNA
On Feb 14, 2007, at 11:34 PM, Larry Daniels wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Shull" <pdx.pete@verizon.net>
> To: <midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com>; "Jim Johnson" <bmwwxman@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Spridgets List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>; "Midget Sprite Group"
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> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:04 PM
> Subject: Life is good, and Wisconsin Saab story - no LBC
>
>
> The GF just stopped by on her way home from work and dropped off a
> bottle of
> The Glenlivet 18 year old. It's Valentine's day, doncha know.
>
> Earlier in the evening, I read something in the latest issue of
> Road and
> Track
> that caught my eye. Seems as though a gentleman from Wisconsin
> recently
> retired his Saab 900 after 17 years of service, during which the car
> traveled
> 1,001,385 miles ... and survived 8 deer collisions. Eight. That, to
> me,
> seems
> like a lot miles and a lot of deer.
>
> =======================================
>
> The guy's name is Peter Gilbert, a Brit now living in WI. Ron
> Soave, Peter
> C. and I met him at Elkhart Lake last summer. He was there with
> the car
> right after it turned over the million mile mark. We were there
> while Ron
> was racing his Bugeye at a vintage race and Gilbert stopped by to see
> Peter's Mini and my Austin A 60 Ute. We took the Ute for a ride
> around the
> track area and I got to see his Saab. Pretty cool that he put a
> million
> miles on the thing. Heck, I've only had one car that I put over
> 100,000
> miles on.
>
> He donated the car to the Wisconsin Auto Museum and Saab then gave
> him a
> brand new Saab. Decent of them, but it took a little publicity for
> them to
> come across with the new car -- a good return for all the positive
> PR he
> gave them.
>
> LAD
>
> P.S. Ron, Peter, WST and the rest of the WI and northern IL guys, that
> museum might be a good destination for a run this summer.
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