Category Archives: Fine Lines

Fine Lines: Split decision
Fine Lines October 10, 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

The 1963 Sting Ray coupe will forever be remembered as the car that changed the fortunes of the Chevrolet Corvette brand, but not without massive controversy, GM infighting and a very prominent and short-lived design feature.
In fact, without the changes made for ’63, it’s quite possible that the Corvette would have died.

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Fine Lines: Ford Torino Talladega
Fine Lines October 3, 2016

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

Everyone wants to be a winner, or look like a winner by driving a winning car. That was the reality back in the 1960s. If automakers produced cars that won races, they sold more cars. Simple.
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.

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Fine Lines, Lancia Stratos
Fine Lines September 26, 2016

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 a highly successful race car could be such a poor street car (and an unpopular one at that) should come as no surprise to anyone.
Just image trying to drive a NASCAR stock car in gridlock. In winter.
And that was the Lancia Stratos’ big problem. It was a racing car adapted for the street. As a result, it took years for dealers throughout Europe to liquidate their meager allotments of the Stratos.

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Fine Lines, American Motors AMX
Fine Lines September 19, 2016

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 AMX was an attempt to produce something really revolutionary and to radically change the perceptions of a stodgy American Motors Corporation. But the vehicle designed to make a big noise in the marketplace amounted to little more than a barely audible whisper.
Poor old AMC could hardly be faulted for trying. Hit head-on by the Go-Go 1960s, the company had little choice but to abandon its compact-focused, fuel-efficiency-is-king mantra and develop products with the cash- and credit-rich boomer generation in mind.

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Fine Lines, Triumph R6
Fine Lines September 12, 2016

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

“I don’t know how the car can stand up to that kind of serious abuse,” I would often say to myself.
The vehicle in question was a 1971 mustard-yellow Triumph TR6 sports car, which was a graduation present that my friend Gord bought for himself. Fresh out of University and a full-fledged architect, Gord had replaced his long-since rusted out TR3, the one with the tiny doors and ill-fitting side-curtain windows, for this latest creation from the British Leyland conglomerate.

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Fine Lines, 1970-’81 Pontiac Firebird
Fine Lines Sept 5, 2016

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 early 1970s, the absolute peak of all-out automotive muscle and attitude, the Pontiac Firebird represented not only what was fast, but was also cool and hip.
The car was boiling caldron of performance and passion, a heady mixture that kept it clearly in the sights of the bulging, baby-booming youth market, plus anyone else who doted on driving a car that was several cuts above hum-drum. In an unfortunate twist, though, one of the hottest-looking machines on the planet nearly fizzled on the launch pad.

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Fine Lines, Porsche 959
Fine Lines August 29, 2016

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

This little-known but highly touted hyper-Porsche turned the 1980s definition of high performance completely upside down with its futuristic approach to speed, handling and computer-controlled hardware.
It was a car that was light years ahead of its time and one that would become the benchmark for all Porsches that followed. Conceived, designed and built in the 1980s to go racing in a new factory-experimental class, Porsche set out to build about 200 copies (as mandated by the rules) of the 959 for public consumption.

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Fine Lines, Ferrari/Dino, 1967-’74
Fine Lines August 22, 2016

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 has to be considered one of the most public gestures to honor a son, ever. Had he not died, Dino Ferrari would have had the racing world in the palm of his hand. As the son of Enzo, it was Dino’s destiny to some day take over the reins of the company his father built, a company with a closet full of exotic automobiles and checkered flags.
Instead, he died a young man after living just 24 years. He never ruled the Ferrari kingdom, but his father, as a tribute to his son, commissioned a rolling automotive monument. In the end, Dino would become better known in death than in life.

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Fine Lines: 1957 Chevrolet
FineLines August 15, 2016

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’s the reference car of the 1950s, but more significantly the 1957 Chevy put real performance in the hands of an entire country and not just sports-car lovers.
Until the ’57’s arrival, sportiness had been left to the Corvette, which could be comfortably enjoyed by only two people at a time. But with Corvette firepower being made available to the every-day ’57 Chevy and its buyers, performance could be enjoyed by the masses, including you and four or five buddies.

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Fine Lines: Jaguar Mark II
FineLines August 8, 2016

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

From its delicate grille to the gentle sloping curve of the roofline, the 1999-2008 Jaguar S-Type bears a striking resemblance to the Jaguar Mark II, a model that dates back to the late 1950s. It’s also a car that broadened the appeal of this Coventry, England-based motorworks with its nearly perfect balance of power and prestige.
Not surprisingly, Jaguar played up the S-Type’s visual association with the Mark II in its TV and print commercials, interspersing shots of the original along with its unabashedly retro successor.