Category Archives: Profiles

Robert Bosch – June 23, 2014

Overview

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If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format. 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

The spark of automotive genius begins one cold December day late in 1901, in a small German factory that employs a few dedicated, yet unknown, workers.
A 30-year-old man with an ever lengthening beard and a receding hairline is bent over at the waist, glancing over the shoulder of his talented assistant.
Flash!

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Jean Todt – June 16, 2014

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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

There are few circus tents quite like Formula One racing.
It’s hard to find a sport whose Number One superstar negotiates a clause into his contract that includes a personal gymnasium on his personal plane. Or a sport where the operating budget of one team is bigger than the gross domestic product of a small nation. Or where the engagement of a 60-year-old man to a 44-year-old model – who just happened to appear in a James Bond film – caused paparazzi cameras to click from Monaco to Malaysia.

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John Z. DeLorean – June 9, 2014

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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

Even in death, nearly a decade later, the man still generates sales hype.
Take a few clicks through www.ebaymotors.com, www.autotrader.com or any other automotive auction Web site, and the magic of John DeLorean and his dream car are still alive and kicking.

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Bobby Hamilton – June 2, 2014

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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

In the bar rooms and on the bar stools and in the school hallways and in the smokey pool halls, they still talk about him.
They still talk about the day the nutty, blond-haired kid from the streets of Nashville, Tenn., got a little crazy and welded the nose of a 1969 Chevelle onto the front of a 1950 Ford pickup truck and raced it up the old Louisville Highway north out of Nashville.

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Colin McRae – May 26, 2014

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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

Sometimes they talk about luck being a double-edged sword.
Lucky to not have been there. Unlucky to have been there. Lucky to take the turn at a certain angle as a ton of hurtling glass and steel makes its way around a corner too fast. Unlucky to take the turn too tight and not make it out.

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Eberhard von Kuenheim – May 19, 2014

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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

Have you heard about the real ultimate driving machine?
Or the spirit behind the man who turned a car company from a small player in a sleepy, southern German town into a global tour de force?

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Dale Jarrett – May 12, 2014

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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

It wasn’t just his 6-foot-2, thin-as-a-rake frame that made race-car driver Dale Jarrett stand out in a crowd.
In fact, standing around in a pack of National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing drivers, he looked more like he belonged in the NBA than NASCAR.

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Reeves Callaway – May 5, 2014

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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

His future was mapped out for him, wasn’t it?
If everything fell into place, and the “ordinary” pattern fit, Reeves Callaway could have walked into his father’s golf business and quietly gone about building the family empire.
There was just one problem: Callaway is no quiet, ordinary man.
If you don’t know the story, Callaway’s father was that Callaway, the founder of the “Big Bertha” golf club and Callaway Golf, a bold company that allowed the average golfer to do something extraordinary with his or her game.

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Malcolm Bricklin – April 28, 2014

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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

Malcolm Bricklin was never really quite sure where it all went wrong, although his investors have a few theories.
Bricklin’s dream of beginning an automobile manufacturing company on the east coast of Canada was supposed to be a can’t-miss venture. But by the time Bricklin Vehicle Canada folded in 1975, Bricklin’s bankruptcy petition listed $2,000 in assets and $32,354,870.03 in debts.

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George Romney – April 21, 2014

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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

George Romney never could have imagined that his commitment to a little compact car named the Rambler would transform an automotive greenhorn into the Governor of Michigan and a candidate for the President of the United States.

But that is exactly the career path taken by this fearless visionary who bucked all conventional automotive wisdom, and never trusted the direction the powerful “Big Three” automakers were steering the industry through the late 1950s.