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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.

She wasn’t like most woman in the United States in the summer of 1909, not that she didn’t have a lot of obstacles in her way.
The potholes could have stopped her. In Nebraska there were plenty of those to dodge.

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.

Every automotive invention had to come from somewhere and many of them originated from outside individuals and companies.

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.

Before the big money, the big tracks, the big crowds and the big fight for sport supremacy, there was just Big Bill. 

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.

More than 15 years ago, before he walked away from a top racing league that he ruled with a lead foot, it was not uncommon for Alain Prost to more than occasionally become cornered in the smallest restaurant in the smallest town in the tiniest corner of a country.

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.

What would we do without music in our cars? Ipods, satellite radio and CD changers. That, and much more, all had to begin somewhere. One evening in 1929, high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Ill., a couple sat in their car watching the sun slip away on another day. A young woman asked her 22-year-old boyfriend a question: wouldn’t the night be nicer if there was a little music?

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.

How fast was that daring young man? How dangerous was that game? It all had to do with being fast. He was lightning fast. He was sneaky fast. Craig Breedlove was so fast he had buried the needle on the speedometer of life before he was barely off the starting line. 

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.

It’s funny how things work out sometimes. The guy who really didn’t want the job ended up doing one of the best jobs.That’s the way it turned out for John F. (Jack) Smith, the former head of General Motors and the one person who never thought he would reach that level. 

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.

The history books heap a lot of praise on Karl Benz: a wonderful idea man and a gentleman who took a tiny kernel and nurtured it into something that would be remembered as simply astonishing.
But maybe that one day, a full 14 years before he was granted his first patent for a moving automobile, is the day to remember most.

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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.

His career as the head of an automotive company wasn’t the longest in the industry.

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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.

“Simplicate first, then add what you want after,” he once said.
Simplicate. It was Colin Chapman’s own term for making things as easy as possible on yourself. Don’t overdo it. You’ll only end up complicating things more than you need to.