I'm a big fan of Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the NPR radio program "Car Talk". As such, I get a semi-weekly email from them called "Time Kill Weekly". The most recent issue included a plea for car photos (see quoted text below).
"We need a favor. We need a photo.
Not of you, sorry. We need a photo of your car.
Here's the story. When someone looks up a particular car, we want a picture of that car to come up. But we're too cheap to buy a picture of every car there is. Then we got this great idea: We'll get pictures of real cars. From the people who own them. Willing to help us?
Here's how it works.
Just snap a photo or two of your car -- any resolution will do, thank you. Email it directly to us at "carpix@cartalk.com." We'll need you to include the year, make and model of your car.
Got a friend or relative who might want to kill a few minutes having their car memorialized for all eternity in our collection? Great! Forward this email along, if you could. And thanks, from all of us at Car Talk Plaza."
I recognize that Tom and Ray aren't universally loved in the old car community. Most of the rest of my own family won't even listen to their show, for that matter. Whether you like them or not, however, this IS an opportunity to display South Bend's (...and Hamilton's, and Los Angeles') finest creations to a national audience, many of whom don't know much about Studebakers. Therefore, I encourage you to send Tom and Ray a picture or two of your Studebaker. Hopefully, we can send them enough pictures to represent every year and model of Studebaker. I would recommend against sending pictures of other people's cars, however, unless you have their permission.
As stated above, send them to carpix@cartalk.com I already contributed pictures of a fine example of a 1950 Champion 4 door sedan, but I doubt most other models are represented yet, so have at it.
Chris, you should send them pix of "the Turtle"! That will leave some "lackey" at Car Talk Plaza scratching his or her head!
"We need a favor. We need a photo.
Not of you, sorry. We need a photo of your car.
Here's the story. When someone looks up a particular car, we want a picture of that car to come up. But we're too cheap to buy a picture of every car there is. Then we got this great idea: We'll get pictures of real cars. From the people who own them. Willing to help us?
Here's how it works.
Just snap a photo or two of your car -- any resolution will do, thank you. Email it directly to us at "carpix@cartalk.com." We'll need you to include the year, make and model of your car.
Got a friend or relative who might want to kill a few minutes having their car memorialized for all eternity in our collection? Great! Forward this email along, if you could. And thanks, from all of us at Car Talk Plaza."
I recognize that Tom and Ray aren't universally loved in the old car community. Most of the rest of my own family won't even listen to their show, for that matter. Whether you like them or not, however, this IS an opportunity to display South Bend's (...and Hamilton's, and Los Angeles') finest creations to a national audience, many of whom don't know much about Studebakers. Therefore, I encourage you to send Tom and Ray a picture or two of your Studebaker. Hopefully, we can send them enough pictures to represent every year and model of Studebaker. I would recommend against sending pictures of other people's cars, however, unless you have their permission.
As stated above, send them to carpix@cartalk.com I already contributed pictures of a fine example of a 1950 Champion 4 door sedan, but I doubt most other models are represented yet, so have at it.
Chris, you should send them pix of "the Turtle"! That will leave some "lackey" at Car Talk Plaza scratching his or her head!
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