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Jim Koscs

New Jersey
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Automotive PR/marcom writer has worked with the world's top car brands. Auto journalist writing stories at the intersection of history, emotion and culture.

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Jim Koscs’s Biography

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"Storytelling" should not be reduced to a marketing buzzword

Here’s the real story on storytelling. It’s what journalists do. We research. We interview. We weave details from multiple sources into a narrative that enlightens or entertains the reader – or both.

We introduce readers to new things, or show old things in a new light. And we remind readers that, behind all things are the people who designed, built, maintained, preserved or restored them.

Those are the stories I write. I’ve been writ…

Jim Koscs’s Journalist Portfolio

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Back from the USSR: Soviet cars earn another look

Back from the USSR: Soviet cars earn another look

It was a dark and stormy afternoon (it really was) when I stepped into a big, forboding Soviet limousine from…

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Rusty Trails: Surveying America’s troubled roadways from a ’49 Hudson

Rusty Trails: Surveying America’s troubled roadways from a ’49 Hudson

America's infrastructure is crumbling, with some 63,000 bridges considered structurally deficient by the Amer…

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The Schwinn Sting-Ray: No longer child's play

The Schwinn Sting-Ray: No longer child's play

In the 1960s and early '70s, the two-wheel dream machine for many children in the US and Canada was a Schwinn…

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In Iran, Hailing Detroit With Vintage V-8's

In Iran, Hailing Detroit With Vintage V-8's

The late Anthony Bourdain did a wonderful "Parts Unknown" episode on Tehran, Iran, which ended with a gatheri…

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Lots of Web Traffic in Such a Tiny Town

Lots of Web Traffic in Such a Tiny Town

Artist Michael Paul Smith became a social media sensation in 2010 when his tiny imaginary town of Elgin Park …

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Beauty in the Beast: Which Classic Muscle Cars Are Most Iconic?

Beauty in the Beast: Which Classic Muscle Cars Are Most Iconic?

If you think talking politics is the quickest way to ignite an argument, you haven't tried classic muscle car…

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Articles

Original Owner: Tearing up the Roads with a ’68 TVR Tuscan

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By Jim Koscs
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Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. If you owned an obscure, one-of-13-made British sports car, what do you think the odds of randomly encountering one of the other 12 on the road would be? How about meeting up with the one with the next sequential serial number? That happened to Jay Miller one night in 1969 while driving his 1968 TVR Tuscan to a friend’s house in Irvington, New Jersey.
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Original Owner: Jeff Hohl Bought a Beetle for Its Frugality and Fell in Love

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By Jim Koscs
| Hagerty Media
Get automotive news, DIY tips, market trends, in-depth car profiles, and more right in your email inbox. Viewing Volkswagen Beetle history through lilac-tinted, pop-culture glasses, you might see some grainy film of goofy college kids stuffing themselves into the tiny car to set a record. Classic rock music fans, meanwhile, might get misty-eyed viewing sun-drenched footage of a Beetle (but no Beatles) at 1969’s Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
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Original owner: A Navy vet and his dark blue '73 Corvette

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By Jim Koscs
| MSN Verified
Jim Koscs Drive-in theaters likely helped spark countless romances over the past 90 years , and probably some marriage proposals, too. Is there anything more romantic than popping the big question while watching a “Planet of the Apes” movie marathon from a Corvette? That's how Tom Rostkowski made the grand gesture to his girlfriend, Nancy, back in 1974. They married that year and drove to their Daytona, Florida, honeymoon in the Dark Blue Metallic 1973 L82 Vette Tom bought new when he was 28.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Staff writer at a car magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. Had a manual and then electronic in college (remember "daisy wheels?") Worked on a Selectric at first job.

How is social media changing news?

Turning it into a weapon against those who can't tell truth from propaganda.