Category Archives: Fine Lines

Fine Lines: Mercury Cougar
FineLines Aug 17, 2015

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

It must have been maddening for Mercury-Lincoln dealers. Flush with Continentals, Park Lanes and Montclairs, not to mention a few assorted econobox Comets, they could only clench their fists and grit their teeth as buyers – thousands upon thousands – flocked to the nearest Ford store.
Why? The new Mustang had arrived. The birth of Lee Iacocca’s baby had led to a severe case of mass automotive hysteria and ushered in an era of “pony-car” madness.

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Fine Lines: Nash Metropolitan
FineLines Aug 10, 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

Small cars are pretty much the norm these days, but that wasn’t the case more than 50 years ago when the automotive dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Then, the puny Nash Metropolitan stuck out like a sore thumb, although it somewhat paved the way for what many of us drive today. Like most modern compacts, it wasn’t flashy or powerful – far from it, actually – and it didn’t cost much. Sound familiar? Although hardly a roaring success, the Metropolitan was a trend-setter in more ways than one. It was one of the reasons that American-based car companies began to think small.

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Fine Lines: Ford Bronco
FineLines Aug 3, 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

Sport-utility vehicles moved from the fringe to the mainstream when Ford built the Bronco.
The success of the company’s off-roader also pushed General Motors and Chrysler into developing similar products and ultimately led to the popularity of this hot segment.
Before the Bronco, Jeep’s CJ was the reigning champion of the sport ute set. Its only rivals were few and far between and included the International Scout as well as a trickle of British Land Rovers that managed to make it to our shores.

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Fine Lines: Ferrari 275
FineLines July 27, 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

Beautiful to look at, the 275 GTB had its flaws, such as a tight interior and terrible rear visibility. Whatever. The V12 engine buzzed to 8,000 revs per minute and put out 300 horsepower. At just 2,500 pounds, that meant zero-to-60-mph times of about 5.5 seconds and a top speed of 160 mph. It was the perfect Ferrari, at least as far as the 1960s were concerned. For Enzo Ferrari, the 275GTB and GTS series reaffirmed his company’s stature as a producer of first-class sports cars that, with their stirring mechanical sounds and captivating architecture, became the gold standard for the finest in no-expense-spared pure-bred supercars.

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Fine Lines: Volkwagen Karmann Ghia
FineLines July 20, 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

The eventual creation of the Type 143, the Karmann Ghia’s original designation, actually required the combined talents of three companies. The car’s sensuous styling was handled by Luigi Segre, who worked for the Ghia design studio in Turin, Italy. Segre drew his inspiration from the d’Elegance concept car penned by famed Chrysler auto artiste Virgil Exner. After the final design had been cast and VW’s engineers had completed their work, Karmann took over the final assembly process, including the attachment of the Karmann and Ghia logos onto the rear deck lid.

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Fine Lines: 1964-’66 Barracuda
FineLines July 13, 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 was the first “pony” car to be introduced to the general public? If you said the Mustang, you would be wrong . . . by about two weeks.
In a move designed to steal some of the Mustang’s thunder, Plymouth brought its Barracuda to market just ahead of Ford’s brash new attention getter.

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Fine Lines: Acura Integra
FineLines July 6, 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

Every generation of young automobile enthusiast has a vehicle to call its hot rod.
You know, the affordable car that you could tinker with on the weekends, blow your fast-food paycheck on and drive hard day and night. And when it blew up, you fixed it . . . or you bought another one and used the old one for parts.
For many car nuts through the years, the old Fords, Chevys and Chryslers provided weekend entertainment as well as an education in basic auto mechanics.

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Fine Lines: AMC Rambler American
FineLines June 29, 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

While the automobiles of 1950s were often overstuffed, chrome-laden, gas-drinking behemoths, there were actually many practical exceptions.
One company, Nash-Kelvinator, later to become American Motors Corporation, successfully bucked the chrome-and-fins trend. The company’s cars came with frameless unitized body construction, safety features that were ahead of their time (such as seatbelts), unique reclining seats you could sleep in and engines that championed fuel economy over horsepower and straight-line acceleration.

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Fine Lines: Ford Edsel
FineLines June 22, 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

After two brief years in production and untold millions of dollars spent on engineering, tooling and marketing, the misunderstood Edsel flamed out in spectacular fashion.
The public actually seemed to enjoy the spectacle of watching Ford tripping over its corporate shoelaces. The Edsel line of cars became an international joke with a punchline that reverberates to this day.

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Fine Lines: Lincoln Capri
FineLines June 15, 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

The 1955 Lincoln Capri was basically the same car that was used to conquer the Carrera PanAmericana road race. Its 225-horsepower 341-cubic-inch cam-in-block V8 was slightly larger than the one installed in the 1952-’54 versions, which helped deliver slightly better acceleration for one of these 4,400-pound heavyweights. Available in sedan, coupe and convertible, the Lincoln could be optioned with air conditioning, power windows and overstuffed leather seats.