Category Archives: Fine Lines

Fine Lines: Porsche 928
FineLines Jan 4, 2016

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

Of you recall movies of the 1980s, you’ll remember the line that Tom Cruise uses in the movie “Risky Business.”
“Porsche . . . there is no substitute.”
The irony is that to many of the Porsche faithful, the 928 model driven in “Risky Business” was itself a substitute and, in hindsight, risky business, indeed.
The 928 was sleek, sexy and sophisticated and could outperform just about anything on the road. But, with its engine positioned in front of the driver instead of behind, was it a “real” Porsche?

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Fine Lines: Mazda Miata
FineLines Dec 28, 2015

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

We’ve all seen Miatas. For more than 25 years, the little two-seat convertibles have been seen cruising busy freeways, bounding along twitchy two-lane rural roads and darting in and out of traffic as if weaving some imaginary giant basket.
Since 1989, the Miata has meant magic to drivers of relatively modest means. And it has done so with a style all its own . . . sort of. Since its inception, few automakers have dared market such a specialized transportation module at such an attractive price.

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Fine Lines: 1970-’77 Capri
FineLines Dec 21, 2015

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

Back in the early 1970s, Mercury dealers had acres of opera-windowed, padded-roofed Grand Marquis Broughams and Designer Series Continentals. So, what was this silly little Capri all about?
Perhaps it was all a mistake, but there it was, this 2,000-pound weakling vying for attention, just like the rest of the imports of the day.
Of course, imported automobiles had been a burr in Detroit’s backside ever since the first baby boomers learned to crawl.

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Fine Lines: Lotus Europa
FineLines Dec 14, 2015

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

It seems impossible that this weird-looking junior-sized sports car with a Lotus badge and tepid Renault engine could have been popular. In any way.
But its mid-engine design (between the passenger compartment and the rear wheels), spectacular driving characteristics and reasonable price made it a vital revenue producer that kept Lotus afloat and helped fuel the company’s thirst for racing.
Colin Chapman, visionary founder and chief engineer for Lotus Cars of England, was never one to follow convention and the wide range of sports cars he produced over the years reflected this fact.

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Fine Lines: 1982-’92 Camaro
FineLines Dec 7, 2015

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 1970, the selection of brightly colored American performance cars was better than a box full of Skittles. There were black strips from Chargers, Challengers, Torinos Barracudas, Chevelles, GTXs, Road Runners, Dusters, Demons, GTOs, Olds 442s and Novas as far as the eye could see.
And then 1971 came along and there was a bit less. And then a bit less after that. The back half of the 1970s pretty much wrecked the rest of it. Why?

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Fine Lines: Hemicuda
FineLines Nov 30, 2015

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

How can you tell if a car is great? Is it the speed? Is it the excitment or perhaps the sound? Or maybe when it’s worth hundreds of thousands of dollars 45 years after it was born?
More than likely, it’s these four letters: H-E-M-I. If there was a Hemi-powered Chrysler on the drag strip in the mid-to-late 1960s, you had better pray to the heavens that you wouldn’t have to square off against it at the starting line.
Of course, Chrysler knew what it had created.

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Fine Lines: 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow
FineLines Nov 23, 2015

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 did movie legend Charlie Chaplin, Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, baseball star Babe Ruth and the silver screen’s Ginger Rogers have in common?
Aside from their obvious notoriety, all owned cars built by the Pierce-Arrow company. They were joined by some of the most famous and wealthy people of the early 20th century who visibly demonstrated their power and influence by driving, or riding in one of these impressive vehicles. Names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Woolworth and Carnegie all possessed Pierce-Arrow pink slips at one time or other.

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Fine Lines: Singer Bantam
FineLines Nov 16, 2015

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

Bad luck followed by bad press – followed by more bad luck – would be the kiss of death for many companies.
In no case did this become more apparent than with the Singer car company’s humiliating experience resulting from one catastrophic event. In 1935, fresh from two years of underdog-type racing success including the grueling 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) endurance event, the Birmingham, England-based Singer company appeared destined for greater things. In those days, as now, auto racing was a popular spectator sport. But unlike today, participating cars were based on those available right from the showroom floor.

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Fine Lines: Aston Martin DB4/5
FineLines Nov 9, 2015

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

When it comes right down to it, there are only two kinds of Aston Martins: new ones; and the old ones. The new ones – the Vantage and DB9 and DBS – are well known, but when it comes to the old ones, most people only recall the DB4/5, and for good reason. Their show-car styling and the throaty growl produced by their inline six-cylinder engines made them memorable, if not the quintessential Aston Martins. During their seven-year production run (with a mere 2,406 examples built), these upscale sports cars became more than just performance benchmarks.

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Fine Lines: Olds Rocket 88
FineLines Nov 2, 2015

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

It was more by accident than design that General Motors’ Oldsmobile brand gave birth to the modern-era high-performance automobile.
Its red-hot “Rocket”-V8-powered 88 model became the spark that would eventually spread like a brush fire throughout the land.
In the late 1940s, engines with two banks of four cylinders angled outward from a central crankshaft to form a “V” were nothing new. Cadillac developed the first mass-produced V8 in 1915 and Ford introduced its “flathead” V8 17 years later in 1932.