Michael Fremer Interviews John Curl

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Okay, we have the stage. So, you know, the first thing I would like to say to John and everybody is that um John and I have one thing in common outside of this particular business. And I wanted to ask him how he got involved in this, how he how he was an owner of a Saab sonnet,

which is that car. Both of us owned a Saab set and uh in my world this is an extremely important thing. So John, how did you end up with a Saab sonet? Um, I um needed uh a a good ride to uh a distant uh location every day because I decided that I wanted to live in

Berkeley or at least in the East Bay or I was actually originally when I got the car I was I was in Walnut Creek. So, uh, I had to commute to Redwood City every day. And it was a long, grueling thing. It was an hour each way. And I had this little Austin Healey Sprite,

which was very I had a like a one foot long mo muffler on it, you know, one of these racing mufflers. And and I was going deaf uh just about doing it. And I saw this um you know they they had this ad for uh on the radio for this Saab dealer and they said that if you

if you buy a Saab from us, we will send you to Sweden to pick it up. >> Oh. and was I said, "Well," then I went to them and I said, "Hey, uh uh I'm I'm not so interested in the sedan, but uh how about that sporty version that you have, which cost about twice as much."

And I said, "If you'll take my wife and me to Sweden, that'll be fine." And they said, "Sure." So, we my wife and I got like a 15-day, you know, free kind of uh very nice, you know, vacation. We'd been already the year before. We'd been in Europe. We'd been in Sweden and uh