Category Archives: Fine Lines

Fine Lines: Mercedes-Benz Gullwing
FineLines August 1, 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

Through triumph and tragedy, the original Mercedes-Benz SL left its mark not only on the racing world, but in the minds and imaginations of sports-car fans the world over.
The highly coveted German car figured in some of the most memorable racing moments of all time, from the most heroic to the saddest. Such is the legacy of a car that, more than 50 years following its creation, commands eye-riveting attention whenever one appears at any classic-car gathering.
But it wasn’t for Max Hoffman, North Americans would have known little of the 300SL.

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Fine Lines: 1956 Dodge Custom Royal
FineLines July 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

In the mid-1950s, a revolution was brewing within the Chrysler organization that would eventually lead to major changes in both the style and substance for the company’s automobiles.
The 1956 Dodge Custom Royal is representative of the direction the company was headed: fins; flash; and fast times. Although the fact that the car isn’t particularly well known is not necessarily a case of the wrong product at the wrong time, but, perhaps, an indication that every other manufacturer was heading down the same road.

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Fine Lines: 1968-’72 Corvette Stingray
FineLines July 18, 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 often said that if you don’t have anything nice to say, then don’t say anything at all. Well, when the third-generation Corvette made its debut in the fall of 1967, the world was speechless.
The tricked-out fiberglass-bodied two-seater with its bulging fenders, removable roof panels and elongated snout garnered a collected gasp of disbelief from just about anyone with a pulse. Some loved it, however, the new Stingray was received with mixed emotions by true ‘Vette fanatics.

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Fine Lines: 1990-’96 Nissan 300ZX
FineLines July 11, 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

Some would consider the 1980s the ‘lost years’ of performance. If that’s the case, then the 1990s ushered in a rebirth. The decade proved many things, first and foremost that bread-and-butter manufacturers had what it took to build world-class sports cars. Dodge would build its first Viper after not producing any real performance hardware since the early 1970s.

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Fine Lines: 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix
FineLines July 4, 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

Simple, tasteful and elegant are words seldom associated with cars built in North America during the early 1960s. The revolutionary 1962 Pontiac Grand Prix is the exception as it became a benchmark for style and sophistication.
Before its arrival, the personal-luxury category was dominated and even outright owned by the second-generation Ford Thunderbird that was introduced in 1958. That year marked the beginning of the four-seater ‘Bird, a larger but eminently more practical version of the two-seat original.

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Fine Lines: 1934 Ford
FineLines June 26, 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

Imagine heading down to your Ford dealer to pick out a new Fusion. On the options sheet, however, you find a check box that will give your family car the 600-plus-horsepower twin-turbo V-6 straight from the 2017 GT supercar. Sounds absolutely crazy, right? Well, back in the early 1930s, that was the public’s reaction when word leaked out that Henry Ford was planning to introduce a V-8 engine to his line of low-priced cars and trucks.

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Fine Lines: 2000-’09 Saleen S7
FineLines June 19, 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

In the streets of Italy, the legend of Enzo Ferrari can be seen driving around. Lamborghini, Pagani and Maserati are all there as well. Saleen? No.
But with the S7 supercar, the legends got a little company. The United States and Italy might be thousands of miles and an ocean apart, but the S7 and the Italian legends are all created in the universal language of horsepower, lateral acceleration and eyeball-flattening speed.

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Fine Lines: Citroen 2CV
FineLines June 13, 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

Today you don’t see many around, but, that doesn’t mean five million Citroen 2CVs (or Deux Chevaux, as they were called) weren’t produced over a period spanning an amazing 41 years.
It’s a feat equaled by only a very few cars before or since.
But the really remarkable thing about the car was that it could barely be considered a car at all.

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Jaguar D-Type
FineLines June 6, 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

The pristine D-Type Jaguar sits parked on the lush, green grounds of the Earl of March’s estate.
The car’s taught aluminum skin, painted a sober shade of blue with large white dots (where a number or two could be added), glisten in the afternoon sun. It’s not an everyday sight, but the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed, which has some of the finest and rarest racing machinery ever built, isn’t your everyday event.

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Volkswagen Rabbit
FineLines May 30, 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

How do you out-legend your own legend?
The challenge for Volkswagen was far from a simple one. Create a new, still-popular and more modern follow-up to one of the most successful automobiles of all time: the Beetle.
A tough act to follow, but the result was the Rabbit, which was a ground-breaking creation that raised the import bar several notches. It’s a car whose popularity spawned many visual copies from other manufacturers as they hurried to create their own versions of this successful little front-wheel-drive runabout.

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