Is this something that would be of interest to people? May have been done before my time, not sure?

My thoughts were to gather some quality member photos, interior & exterior, hopefully covering the colour range, mix it with some text - facts, figures, spec etc and have it put together in a properly bound book.

Not talking home made job, i mean soft or hardback books, with or without one of those nice sleeves as an option.

I'm having a similar thing printed up as a portfolio booklet and thought it would be great to do a coupe book. I'd be more than happy to put it together & organise printing & distribution

Could be useful as a book for newcomers, but also a keepsake for those already in the fold. I reckon £8-10 for a small book (i think up to/around 240 photos of various sizes) with text as required.

What do people think?

i'd be interested in having one of these! nice glossy hardback would be superb!

Great idea and I'd certainly buy one. Don't want to be a wet blanket, but would it actually be feasible? The market has to be pretty small and the repro costs in color with nice binding could be high. Say you sold 100 at £10 that would only bring in a grand. But as I say, I don't want to put you off and you may well have a solution to these problems. Certainly I'll help if i can (which being pretty talentless doesn't amount to a great offer)

Shouldnt be an issue - looked at the options before posting just in case.

Photo in you sig looks smart - a very 'Coupe Book pose'

count me in...

Ta Mark Followed me own advice in my How To Guide to car photography

there was a guy at stanford hall last year who is writing a book about the coupe and barchetta

I would be in certainly.

Would supply some pictures of a recently resprayed Vinci Grey as well if your interested.

Ooooooh, sounds great! Maybe even some photos of it being done???

Yes I am sure I could sort them out,shoudl be able to get quite a few from the forum users

Mark,

i will be giving my Plus a serious touch up over the next 3-6 months and am happy to offer my services...oh and the 99 vis na..both red might be getting the treatment to...

I would be happy to put my Bishops regalia on for the shoot..

Yeah great, there should be plenty of photo space so the more the merrier really, even if there is bishops regalia involved!!

All kind of pics will be good - engine, interior, exterior, jaunty angles.......

this sounds very good! Id be very interested in this!

£10 for a hardback is cheap! I'm deffinately in! I'm sure other coupe owner's around the world would be as well

The small book (£8-10) would be a bound softback - hardback would be more but i would give you guys an option

I'd get it if there was such a thing. Not sure how you'd go about getting one made though.

Also I think it'd be nice if everyone had a spot on a web site for a picture of their coupé and a little info about it.

Getting them made wont be a problem, dont worry!

Where are you thinking of gettint it from as the quality of some cheaper ones can be a bit pants
You can get nice spiral bound ones now too which keeps the cost down a bit.

I'll be getting a portfolio book through soon so i'll check the quality out of that, take some photos etc so y'all can see.

I'll have a butchers at spiral bound ones as well, see whats what

i should pm jap and circolo for pics of mint cars - in circolo's case he's done something a little different with stunning results....

duely noted! we've got the opportunity to show what can be done so we might as well make the most of it!

I would love one of these count me in 'i think if you get this going you will get over 100 members interested..

If you do a good job of it maybe you can run the calendar for next year too?

Why not indeed!

Excellent Mark! Well volunteered!

Lol! That was a bit too easy! Did anything happen this year with a calendar?

No, but Ross did a get lot of high quality photos from members. I'm sure he'd give you them if you wanted some for the book?

Count me in for a copy of the book please

Excellent! Will see what ross says with regards to pics for the book.

Yes, I remember him too

I'd like a Coupe book as well please Mark

Thanks Theresa.

Jap is more than willing to supply some pics