I got a letter published in EVO!

[jon_s]

Hahaha, I nearly fell off my seat while reading this months issue! I thought what I was reading was very similar to what I had once sent them, then I read my name at the bottom!

The letter is called "Crash Courses" in issue 68 8)

[BADMIHAI]

Scans, or STFU! :wink:

Congratulations, man! It must've been a heck of a letter.

[jon_s]

Hahahaha, the letter was edited quite a lot, but that is ok. The letter was about an optional driving course for cars that were over a certain HP, if you complete the course, then you should get a reduction in insurance.

I completely forgot that I sent the e-mail. I now have my name in Print! I am sure when some others get the mag, it may be possible to scan it in.

[TT]

Great jon!! To cool! I hope to remind this when I will receive my issue so I will scan the page with your letter too :D

[jon_s]

Yeah I will do, good issue too btw. Main article is a comparison between the F1 and the CGT!!

[TT]

Yes it was already posted, but will be scanned with the rest of the mag by myself too ;)

[jon_s]

LOL, I only got my copy yesterday! This place sure does not hang about!

When is your copy due??

[TT]

Difficult to say.. untill some months ago it always arrived around the 10 of the month, now it seems more like the 15 :?

[coombsie66]

LOL, nice work jon, and i totally agree on your idea. People who are good drivers (not lucky or old and slow) should be rewarded with lower insurance. And i'd quite enjoy taking a decent test for driving skill.

[sunnykw]

nice one, and on a good subject too.. have to go look if my bro has that issue yet :)

[yg60m]

LOL ! funny :lol: I am waiting to receive my issue :wink: but like TT i receive it later and later :(

[astonmartinandy]

Congratulations mate - and it was a good edition to be in! How long ago did you send the letter in??

[possessed_beaver]

congrats mate - so they ran out of space for the good letters so they published you'res :P

just jokes

out of all the letters i have sent they have never published one of them :( (to motor magazine and wheels magazine in australia)

[jon_s]

How long ago did you send the letter in??

I sent my letter in when the previous issue was published, so around 1 month.

[WhiteP]

Congratulations ... That's great.. I want my name on my most favourite magazine tooo... somebody write me a letter please :P

[oscargarza88]

haha congratulations!
i hope someone can scan it when they have it, it mst b good if its in that mag.

[N.J.]

Funny enough, I actually had my letter end up in a local Australian Car Mag called 'Sportscar & Racer' - No.2 May-June 2002

www.sports-racer.com



It went a little like this:


"Hello,

First off, great magazine. One thing's for sure; I'll definitely be keeping an eye on the bookshelf at my local Newsagents in the future.

I've just got one question that the people of Sports-Racer (or readers) may be able to help me with.

I've being trying to track down the infamous faszination video, in which test driver Stefan Roser drives Ruf's heroic demo CTR Yellowbird around the Nurburgring in awesomely sideways style! I read & heard so much about it over the years and have; the Porsche centre in Melbourne, bookshops in the Melbourne CBD, searched the internet. I've even contacted your opposition, Motor & Wheels...neither of them replied! (Come on people of Sports-Racer, this is your chance to really impress me!!!)

Could anyone make any suggestions?...website, phone number or perhaps an ad in your mag for readers to reply. I'm sure other readers would also be interested in obtaining perhaps the greatest in-car video shot of all time next to Pikes Peak Hillclimb with Ari Vatanen. I do know the Video was published bt Greenflag videos.

Here's to a bright future for Sportscar&Racer magzine!

N.J., VIC




We've made a few enquries but haven't found the video for you, I have seen it advertised from time to time by various overseas book and video sellers. Anyone who can help drop a line and we'll pass the information on. (ED)"





p.s

So - in the end, I managed to get in touch with Ruf in Germany, they shipped out a copy for me and NOW, I've placed an order for the DVD version + extra footage of Stefan driving the brand new RUF Turbo R at the ring + lots more! :D

Ruf will contact me in the upcoming weeks to when the DVD will be ready to sip out...I'll keep you posted.


http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=10033&highlight=

[oscargarza88]

wow!!!
u sooooo have to post that vid!!! :D :D :D

[levensnevel]

Nice one Jon_S.

come to think of it: In September 1991 I was in a bold mood and wrote an E-Mail to Autoweek, a dutch weekly on cars. They have a section on secondhand cars in which they publish stories on cars which have covered > 100,000 km. A seasoned mechanic checks the car on > 100 important points ; his findings together with background information on the car and its driver and some nice pictures does the trick. I had completely forgotten about my email when my mobile rang some six months later. If I still drove that 480 because ...
So on a sunny day in March 2002 my Cheesewedge was checked, nice pictures where taken and I gave a background interview. In week 18 of 2002 we featured in a two-page article.
And at the end of 2002 we featured again in the Best of 'klokje rond' 2002 selection.
Will try to dig up the articles :wink:
Anyway, these

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/2002BreukelenB.jpg

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/2002BreukelenA.jpg

are two of the pics they took during the photoshoot

editted

because I dug up some scans and UL'ed them to Photobucket

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/Autoweek/200218/

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/Autoweek/200252/

[BADMIHAI]

Well...N.J. I just happen to have that video of the drifting RUF Porsche. I'll upload it to the vault a little later.

[cho_888]

well done! conradulations. that is a fair, effort. i will out for it

[Imre]

Congratulations jon_s.I sent an e-mail in AUTOCAR and they published it also.It was in some last years issue.It wasn`t much of a letter but i`m so proud to be in a mag. :D

[N.J.]

Well...N.J. I just happen to have that video of the drifting RUF Porsche. I'll upload it to the vault a little later.

You're referring to the original '90 RUF CTR video 'Faszination On The Nurburgring' aren't you??? (like I said, RUF shipped me a VHS copy already)

RUF haven't released the new '04 RUF R Turbo' video at the Ring yet.
I'm waiting for their email as to when they will post it out to me - they've received my payment, but the DVD isn't ready to ship just yet...

[BADMIHAI]

You're referring to the original '90 RUF CTR video 'Faszination On The Nurburgring' aren't you??? (like I said, RUF shipped me a VHS copy already)


Yep. The yellow RUF Porsche.

[Schwalbe]

RUF haven't released the new '04 RUF R Turbo' video at the Ring yet.
I'm waiting for their email as to when they will post it out to me - they've received my payment, but the DVD isn't ready to ship just yet...


Too nice, I didn't know that RUF had done another video on the Ring with the 04 RUF R Turbo. :D :D :D

I hope that it will be as good as the 90 RUF CTR video "Faszination On The Nurburgring". :wink:

[Jabba]

Congratulations...I will keep an eye out for it...and to think you could have got a "plug" in for jabbasworld as well....maybe next time I guess :wink:

[jon_s]

Congratulations...I will keep an eye out for it...and to think you could have got a "plug" in for jabbasworld as well....maybe next time I guess :wink:
I was thinking about that, think it deserves a letter of its own!

[Jabba]

I noticed we have been mentioned a few times in their forums.

[jon_s]

Oh really! What kind of stuff has been said?

edit: mainly references to the vids from what I can see.

[coombsie66]

^^ Hopefully sumone will have the sense to find the most interesting part of JW, the forums and discussions. :wink:

[stradale]

editted

because I dug up some scans and UL'ed them to Photobucket

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/Autoweek/200218/

http://img2.photobucket.com/albums/v11/levensnevel/CheeseWedge/Autoweek/200252/

That's great, levensnevel! I know that section well. I read Autoweek regularly years ago. Do you have the scans in a bigger format? They're a bit hard to read like this and I'd really like to read it.

[TT]

Finally online ;)

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/5395/mail.jpg

[jon_s]

hehehehehe, cheers TT :D

[stradale]

Yeah, I read it and realised it had to be the letter of our own jon_s... :wink:

BTW, good point, jon. Sadly I think no insurance company will be interested, at least not a Dutch one. People over here tend to think that everything remotely looking like racing is dangerous. Politicians have their heads even further up their arse and I'm sure if there are any insurance companies who would offer such reduction there would be a debate about it in parliament. Dutch traffic policies are based on the notion that driving is for getting people and goods from A to B. People who say they enjoy driving are immediately put in the same group as the 'road maniacs', the automotive psychopaths who have no ability to drive whatsoever, contrary to their own belief. With that attitude of oversimplifying the advanced driver doesn't stand a chance in this country. Let alone be cut some slack.

[jon_s]

Sadly, I have to agree with you Stradale. :cry:

[SilviaS15Cwest]

Around here they start your rates 3 times higher than they should be and then they can only go up from there. I like your letter though.

[Tomerville]

Wow, have you mailed them before? or was this your first time and you gotta hit?

[jon_s]

First time for me! 8)

[urban_hero]

Well done. It is certainally a reasonable suggestion, and would be worthwhile to do even if it didn't result in a lower insurance policy. However with the massive money-making potential of insurance(shown by Clarkson in his Motoring column-£21,000 insurance for a £20k Escort Cosworth?!), large insurance companies will always find a way to discredit such a scheme somehow.

[666fast]

large insurance companies will always find a way to discredit such a scheme somehow.


Which is a joke. I'm surprised that there isn't some sort of class you can take to lower your insurance. Even if it was the insurance company who offered one of these classess, they would still make money. All they have to do is charge a certain amount to take the class. I think it's safe to say that everyone in the UK complains about insurance prices (and rightfully so), so just imagine how many people would jump at the chance to lower their rates. Even if they had to pay $1000 to take the class. I suppose they wouldn't make as much as they are now, but who knows. How many people in the UK don't drive simply because it's far too expensive to own and insure a car? I bet it's quite a high number.

We have a few different drivers courses. From auto makers to classes offered by private companies. A while back, the people from Car And Driver TV show went to the BMW Advanced Driving course.
We also have it for Motorcycle training. At least here in Minnesota we do. You can do the required training and it's all you have to do, but there is also another course. Here it's called MSF training or something. A friend of mine did it, but other than that I know almost nothign about it. I haven't a clue if it lowers your insurance or not. I'm sure RC45 could provide a little more info on it as he seems to be the resident motorcycle nerd.