Category Archives: Fine Lines

Finelines: Cadillac Eldorado
FineLines March 14, 2016

Overview

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Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Horsepower might have been the driving force of the 1960s, but conspicuous consumption pushed the 1970s to new physical limits. As the main example, just stand at the front corner of a 1970s Cadillac Eldorado and gaze — pretty much forever — down its long flanks and you’ll get the picture. There’s no end in sight and no boundaries that Cadillac wasn’t prepared to push.
The company was by no means dining all alone on a full refrigerator of parts. Plenty of Detroit iron, from Mustangs to Matadors, were gaining weight, growing soft around the middle Ñ and getting bigger Ñ just as the outputs of their smog-strangled engines began heading in the opposite direction.

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Finelines: Lotus Esprit
FineLines March 7, 2016

Overview

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Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Colin Chapman produced some of the most innovative and ground-breaking sports cars around. Under his guidance, Lotus open-wheel Formula machines dominated international motorsports throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Much of the technology developed for competition also trickled down to his specialty sports cars that were produced in limited numbers. But for a man who lived on the cutting edge, it’s doubtful that Chapman, who died of a heart attack at age 54 in 1982, would have let the Esprit model plod on until 2003 . . . for a total of 27 years.

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Finelines: Plymouth AAR ‘Cuda
FineLines Feb 29, 2016

Overview

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Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

From the earliest days of what would be called the “Pony car” era, the Plymouth Barracuda tried marching in lock-step with the iconic Ford Mustang.
Of course it didn’t come close to matching the Ford in sales, even though, technically, Plymouth’s Valiant-based “fish” was the first such vehicle to appear in public in the spring of 1964. But with each passing year, the Mustang marketing juggernaut grew stronger, even though the slower-selling Barracuda steadily improved in both style and in terms of unbridled muscle.

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Finelines: BMW 8 Series
FineLines Feb 22, 2016

Overview

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If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit www.theoctanelounge.com, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.
Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Germany had no clue was about to hit it during that unseasonably warm fall afternoon in 1989. It was the second day of the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellun in the middle of industrial, ultra-chic Frankfurt. Big news was on the auto-show horizon. A beefy BMW was ready to be rolled out of the automaker’s lair, direct from Dingolfing, deep in the heart of the Black Forest.
With testing still in progress and with Bimmer executives unaware that demand would quickly outstrip supply, the BMW 850i took the main stage for the world press. You could have heard a pen drop.

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Finelines: 1907 Thomas Flyer
FineLines Feb 15, 2016

Overview

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If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit www.theoctanelounge.com, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.
Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Imagine racing to Paris, France, from New York, N.Y., in mid-winter by crossing North America, Asia and Europe. Essentially, it’s an around-the-world trip.
This would be challenging enough in a modern passenger plane, but imagine that it’s February of 1908, and that you’re going to do it in a windowless open-air touring car across the frozen, wagon-rutted American landscape that, until then, fewer than 10 souls had previously driven (and none in winter).

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Finelines: 1968-’74 AMC Javelin
FineLines Feb 8, 2016

Overview

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If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit www.theoctanelounge.com, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.
Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

People will generally cheer on an underdog, but when push comes to shove, will they actually bet on one? When it came to the AMC Javelin, tens of thousands did exactly that, by signing in the dotted line. At the time, that probably seemed like a big gamble based on American Motors Corporation’s past effort at sportiness. The car was called the Marlin – referring to one of the toughest, sleekest and most difficult-to-catch trophy fish found in any ocean – but it was really a floundering fish, right from Day One.

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Finelines: 1961-’69 Lincoln Continental
FineLines Feb 1, 2016

Overview

Don’t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media’s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they’re produced. Click here to get started.

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit www.theoctanelounge.com, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.
Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Overnight, quite literally, fins and excessive chrome belonged to a bygone era. That’s how important the arrival of the 1961 lincoln Continental was.
Until the day it launched, luxury cars were all about excess . . . especially chrome. Traditionally, they offered more size, more power, more standard features and, without a doubt, more digits (or larger ones) on their window stickers than all of their plebeian counterparts.

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Finelines: Pontiac GTO
FineLines Jan 25, 2016

Overview

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Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

It’s true that the GTO became the icon of the so-called Musclecar Era, but few know just how hard it was to make it all happen, except perhaps for one man who had to battle the establishment.
John Z. DeLorean, was, at the time, chief engineer of Pontiac. What he wanted was simple enough: a normally mild-mannered mid-sized sedan powered by a big V8.
The GTO concept developed in early 1963 when DeLorean, along with members of his engineering staff, were experimenting with the Tempest, an economy Pontiac introduced the previous year.

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Finelines: Porsche 356 series
FineLines Jan 18, 2016

Overview

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If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit www.theoctanelounge.com, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.
Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Strands of DNA from the Porsche 356 can still be found in today’s 911-series that remains atop the wish list of anyone who yearns for speed and beauty.
For automobile enthusiasts the world over, the Porsche name has remained magical for more than 50 years. And those master magicians, Dr. Ferdinand Porsche and his son Ferry, are revered for taking their underpowered and ill-handling 1930s-era Volkswagen Beetle and creating a veritable legend: the Porsche 356.

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Fine Lines: 1962-’80 MGB
FineLines Jan 11, 2016

Overview

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If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to check out some of our stories online, visit www.theoctanelounge.com, which is owned by Wheelbase Media.
Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

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

Today’s cars do a wonderful job of insulating their occupants from the great outdoors. How boring.
An MGB with the top down is the exact opposite of this, for better or worse. Mostly better.
The heady mix of leather, gasoline and motor oil, combined with whatever natural or man-made odors waft by your nostrils is a seductive automotive opiate. In this age of synthetic-laden interiors, bank vault passenger compartments and well dampened road/engine noises, cars such as the MGB are as out of step with the times as dancing the jitterbug at a Cold Play concert.

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