I think we need something from an official town record to verify this.
Anyone want to drive to Cape Cod?

I found his writing the equivalent of mid to late Picasso's. Artsy,
fartsy folks stand around and ooh and ahh at how wonderful it is; to
me it looks like the product of a very distorted mind and I wouldn't
pay $1 for it.

This seems to indicate there was not;
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:34:41 -0700
From: "Bob Sinclair" <XXX@XXX.com>
Subject: Re: Kurt Vonnegut a Saab dealer? - VSAAB -- The Vintage SAAB Digest #759

The piece by Mr. Vonnegut referenced by Don Price,
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/1726/
is datelined November 24, 2004. He says he was a dealer Saab dealer 33 years
earlier, which would be 1971. But he says Saab's had suicide doors and
two-stroke engines, etc. back then.
Perhaps Mr. Vonnegut wrote the story years earlier, and the dateline is misleading.

XXXXXX, I did some digging when I started hearing this story years ago. I also
came up dry. Since I kept hearing it from time to time, sometime in the mid to
late '70s I asked Ralph Millet if remembered Kurt Vonnegut having been a dealer.
(I didn't have the name of the dealership, nor the location other than it was
allegedly somewhere on Cape Cod. Ralph, who signed every Sales Agreement
(franchise contract) from December of 1956 through his stepping down in the late
'60s or so, said he had no recollection of him. I was familiar with the name of
every dealership principal from when I joined Saab Motors, Inc. in March of 1958
through when I left the company the first time in January 1962, but also have no
recollection of it.

Still, the illustration in the article appears to have the address of Cape Cod
Saab and a phone number. So maybe he was, but neither Ralph nor I remembered him.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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