Category Archives: Profiles

Profiles, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme
February 2, 2023

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Following the Bakersfield meet, Prudhomme was asked to drive what would become the famed Greer, Black and Prudhomme Top Fuel dragster in the highest class in drag racing. The car was so dominant, recording a 230-7 win-loss record between 1963 and 1964, that it usually only made headlines on the rare occasion when it was actually defeated.
The dragster consistently ran the quarter mile, the yardstick in drag racing, in the high-seven-second range, and at more than 190 mph.

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Profiles, Sam Posey
February 12, 2023

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Renaissance man? The art dealers from New Orleans to New York think his “Seeing is Believing” artwork reveals techniques that “focus the viewer’s attention in a way few fine arts painters would dare to create.”
But what makes Sam Posey tick?

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Profiles, Roger Penske
April 22, 2022

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Roger Penske has more than seven decades of racing memories, perhaps beginning with the one about not being able to see any of the action.
At age 14, he wasn’t old enough to drive that day when his father wheeled their ’49 Ford off Georgetown Road, past the gates and into the infield at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to watch the Indy 500.
“Never forget that first day,” Penske said.

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Profiles, David Dunbar Buick
January 10, 2022

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

You see, in a roundabout way, David Dunbar Buick, a bathtub maker, built GM. Not that he ever could have anticipated where his tiny inventions would take the automotive world.

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Profiles, Charles B. King
January 3, 2022

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• 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 shocking Detroit by driving around in a carriage with no horse pulling it, he predicted that one day soon horses would be obsolete.

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Profiles, Darrell Waltrip
December 19, 2021

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

About the only thing that ran faster than Darrell Waltrip on the Winston Cup circuit was his mouth. Early on, he was perceived as merely obnoxious, but later won over fans to eventually become the most popular driver.

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Profiles, Enzo Ferrari
December 5, 2021

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Calm and composed behind the wheel, Ferrari displayed a natural talent for the sport and tried to help grow the business on his own.
Though not an engineer by nature, Ferrari knew engineering talent when he saw it. A big man with a flair for socializing, Ferrari slowly built Alfa’s race industry by luring away top talent from other companies, including his most famous recruit, Vittorio Jano, a well-known Fiat designer.

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Profiles, George Barris
November 29, 2021

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

As the Barris’s reputation grew, so did their customer base. Barris Kustom Shop produced all kinds of specialty work, from mild pinstriping and flames to full-blown custom jobs requiring literally thousands of hours of tedious labor.

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Profiles, Frank Williams
June 21, 2021

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

On March 6, 1986, Frank Williams, who had become a formidable player in Formula One, the world’s premier auto racing series, was at the Paul Ricard circuit in the south of France. He was there to check on the progress of his drivers, Nigel Mansell and Nelson Piquet, as they tested his latest FW11 racecar.

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Profiles, Emile Jellinek
June 14, 2021

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 print/Web.Professional artwork, editing. What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

• Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
• High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
• Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
• Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
• PDF of layout included.
• About 850 words: separate text file included.
• Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Trace the name and you’ll realize that the Mercedes in Mercedes-Benz is her name, the name that was the inspiration for a brand that lives to this day. Emile Jellinek made it so, suggesting to Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhem Maybach, Mercedes’ original owners, that they name the company’s vehicles after his 11-year-old daughter. It would stick for good.

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