Category Archives: Fine Lines

Fine Lines: Mustang 2+2
Fine Lines February 12, 2023

Overview

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What it is: Many of you asked if we could put our expertise to work to create a feature that covers not just classic cars, but those vehicles that have left an indelible mark on car culture. The Fine Lines series examines significant vehicle marques, their backgrounds and their contributions to the history of the automobile. All this, with real artwork.

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

The original coupe and convertible Mustangs were churned out by the hundreds of thousands. But it was the later-too-arrive and slower-selling fastback that has come to represent the era of the “ponycar.”
Proof of that fact appeared in the fall of 2004 when a completely new 2005 Mustang appeared with — you guessed it — a fastback roofline as one of its key styling ingredients. Same goes for the 2015 model, which marked the 50th anniversary of the Mustang.

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Fine Lines: Willys Jeepster and station wagon
Fine Lines February 11, 2023

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

The Station Wagon, originally available in rear-wheel-drive only, was launched in 1946 and was quickly followed by a panel delivery and two- and four-wheel-drive pickup versions a year later. All models were eventually offered with a four-cylinder or optional six-cylinder powerplant with up to 72 horsepower on tap.
Creature comforts were few and far between in the Station Wagon.

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Fine Lines: 1959 Buick Electra
Fine Lines February 10, 2023

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

The economic downturn of 1958, which saw both sales and profits in the auto manufacturing sector unexpectedly nosedive, led to much hand-wringing among executives at the Big Three as the 1959 model year approached. This was especially the case at Buick, as the division was preparing to unveil a completely new lineup of redesigned and rebranded cars. The traditional names — every one of them — had been discarded in favor of three new labels: the price-leading LeSabre; sporty Invicta; and luxury-oriented Electra.

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Fine Lines: Plymouth AAR ‘Cuda
Fine Lines January 30, 2023

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

In the fall of 1969, Chrysler introduced its third-generation Barracuda, along with a similar looking Dodge Challenger. The Plymouth version came in two strengths: regular Barracudas with basic six-cylinder and small-displacement V-8 engines; and performance-oriented ’Cuda models that featured “big-block” 383-cubic-inch, 440-cube and 426 “Hemi” powerplants with as much as 425 horsepower itching to bust lose.

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Fine Lines: Ford Model T
Fine Lines August 12, 2022

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

What would become Henry Ford’s legacy? The combination of having the right product at the right time and being able to market and mass produce it. The assembly line, for which he is perhaps best known, was just one part of that.
The right product was the Model T and it was utterly remarkable for being so utterly simple.

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Fine Lines: Volvo P1800
Fine Lines January 14, 2022

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

The two-seat AMX from the American Motors Corporation was one. More recently there’s the Subaru BRZ, a two-door corner carver that’s diametrically opposed to other Subies such as the safe and sane Forester family car and the Outback wagon.
But perhaps there’s no wilder wild child than the Volvo P1800.

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Fine Lines: Bricklin SV-1
Fine Lines December 24, 2021

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

On paper, the Bricklin SV-1 should have been a dream car, but for dealers, owners and the tiny Canadian east-coast province of New Brunswick, the car ended up being a total nightmare.
Much has been said and written about just how big a failure the Bricklin actually was, but the idea behind this GT-style sports car was actually ahead-of-its-time brilliant (hence the dream part). It was in the execution that things went south (the nightmare part).

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Fine Lines: Acura NSX
Fine Lines December 5, 2021

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

The hype surrounding the NSX’s arrival in the fall of 1990 was immense. Never before had a Japanese car company dared challenge the leading Italian and German exotics such as Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche. Honda set out to counter the accepted weaknesses of traditional mega-buck machines. The company believed it possible to have performance as well as fit, finish, build quality and durability, all the while reducing maintenance costs and hammering the competition’s bottom line.

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Fine Lines: Ford Torino Talladega
Fine Lines May 24, 2021

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

As most people know, the cars that compete on today’s NASCAR racing circuit have absolutely nothing in common with those sold at any Ford, GM or Toyota dealership. They’re basically hand-built machines that incorporate a specially constructed steel chassis with bodies of custom-bent sheetmetal. One is essentially identical to the next with the exception of some front-end sculpting and different stickers.

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Fine Lines: Lancia Stratos
Fine Lines May 17, 2021

Overview

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

The hiked-up stance and wrap-around windshield are clues to what the Stratos was all about. Public transportation? No way. A great rally machine? It won three championships.