Nines Editor featured on MSNBC European Delivery article

Posted on 07. Jul, 2007 by Ryan in 2000-2009

Seth Bengelsdorf, the editor for the Nines Magazine, the newsletter for the Saab Club of North America has been recently featured in an article on MSNBC online that relates to Saab’s European Delivery Program that I have previous mentioned here on Saab History.

This is an excellent story and thanks for the information Seth! It’s great to see such an active Saab Community out there these days and this personal story about Saab’s European Delivery Program on MSNBC, is another great example.

Here is a quote from the article and a snapshot of the front page of that article below with the “other” brand’s car photo replaced with a Saab for obvious reasons. Enjoy!

The programs, started between 30 and 40 years ago, were conceived as a sales enticement. At the time, European cars seemed exotic, if not downright odd, to most Americans. “The first Saab we bought was from a friend whose husband had died,” says Seth Bengelsdorf of Port Chester, N.Y. “My father felt bad for her because she had the snow tires on the wrong wheels, in front.”

That was in the late ’60s when front-wheel-drive was unknown and theirs was the only Saab in town. By the summer of 1971, the family was in England, taking delivery of a new Saab for a driving vacation that included a ferry trip to Europe. Since then, it’s been all Saabs for all Bengelsdorfs almost all the time.

Source: MSNBC

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