Australia's first ever Vintage Caravan book

Me too, I will keep my wife.

Mark,

You have my pledge on this one

Daggsey

Hi Mark

I will take one ....Gay will just love it for her birthday present

Mark ..some forum members pledged to buy a calendar but did not go through with the pledged... what about making people pay a deposit when ordering
f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

I don't think I'll order ten this time but, I could be tempted to take one.

Is it to be a coffee table type picture book....... yes?

Could it be a forerunner to a serious 'History of Caravanning in Australia'.... that would be good ;D

Cobber.

Hi Mark
Please put me down for a copy, sounds tremendous.

When do you expect the Book to be available ?

Would make an excellant Valantines Day Gift from me to Libby......................

Regards
John & Libby

ONE FOR MRFJ55

GOOD LUCK WITH THE PROJECT !

THANKS , MAURIE .

hi mark and ditzy

we're in for one.

looking forward to it.

geoff 'n jude

Hi Mark
Sounds like a nice idea


So.. is it a book with reference material about each type of van manufacturer, the production run from the foundation of the company to closure, models offered by the individual company . sorta a desk top A5 book ..
Or is it going to be a just a "Booklet" as you have also called it with pictures of the different brands?? Sort of like a "padded out " calender . Have you considered copywright on using photos of members vans and sought permission to use them in print??.
Not that its likely that anyone would take you to task over that sort of thing but it can happen.

Different to us all throwing photos of our vans up here on the forum for the viewing pleasure of others. No financial gain involved.


I cant pledge that i will buy one until you can give me a rough idea of the format, how many pages and a ball park figure on cost and postage.

Dont mean to sound negative and i have always rallied to your causes.. just need to get a handle on whats on offer.
Whatever the answers ... i wish you well with this initiative.

Reddo

Reddo

Please keep me updated on this one. Great to have Australian caravan history in print for everyones perusal. T J

Hi All,

I thought it might be helpful if I gave some details on this book, since Mama Razzi and I will be doing the work of producing it for vintagecaravans.com if the project goes ahead.

What we have in mind is not a lavish (and very expensive) coffee table book or a comprehensive reference manual. We were thinking of a modest sized booklet - 52 pages of A5 (about 21cm x 15cm) format. About half the pages would be colour pictures of vintage vans and the text would be about a selection of specific VVs that we have photographed - rather like miniature magazine articles. There would also be some brief history on a few brands. If all goes well, we could put out volume 2, 3 ... in future.

To answer a few of the questions that have been raised:

(1) I understand that the photographer owns the copyright on photographs. And the booklet would be sold through the forum, not in bookshops. When Mama Razzi and I photograph VVs, we don't think it's friendly to insist that owners sign a legal photo release form. But we can do that in future if need be.

(2) Yes, there has to be a small profit in producing the booklets. There are real costs (printing, CD postage, etc) and real risks - we had 50 of the 2008 calendar left over, so the printer made money but we didn't. But we don't make the calendars and books for profit. We do it for fun and to be good members of the VV community. If it was just for the money, we simply wouldn't do it.

(3) We also do everything possible to minimise printing costs. Some printers quote prices around $30-40 per copy to print a booklet like this - or insist that you have to print 3000 of them. We search around to find those rare printers that will do small print runs at a reasonable price, while giving acceptable quality.

Hope that helps.

Cheers, Papa & Mama Razzi

I'm with reddo on this one. Very interested, depending on cost/product. Has any thought been given to improving the quality of this production by selling some advertising space in it??? I take it that it be similar to the regional real estate booklets that agents have as freebies at their door entrances?

Ray