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Which is tougher: being a racing driver; a team owner; or a car constructor? How about all three at the same time?
It’s virtually unthinkable in today’s mega-million-buck world of Grand Prix auto racing that any of its talented, ambitious drivers could launch his own race team . . . and design and compete in his very own car.

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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.

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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.

The lines were long for the man. Boy, were they ever long.
If you walked along the grounds of the dusty county fair, glitzy car show or dirty drag strips that dotted the landscape of Southern California in the late 1950s, one thing became abundantly clear: people were waiting for someone. “A phenomena,” the man at the front of every line once called it. Who was that man? And who were so many people waiting for? Even Ed Roth couldn’t answer the question.

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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.

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• Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
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• About 850 words: separate text file included.
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You take it for granted today, but back then there was a man who was just plain frustrated about the waiting . . . and the walking.

Warren Avis landed at airports across the United States and waited . . . and waited . . . and waited. Sometimes he would have to walk for miles from the airport terminal before he would find a ride to pick him up.

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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

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• 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 new Corvette Stingray is the talk of the auto-show circuit, with hundreds of thousands of people paying to get a look at it in person.
The design chief responsible is no stranger to hits at General Motors, whether it’s the Cadillac ELR or the current Camaro.

“Not only are we introducing this amazing car,” said Ed Welburn at the Stingray’s unveiling at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Mich., “We are giving it the name that is synonymous with emotional design and incredible performance.”

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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.

Long before big money and sponsorship, there were guys like Coo Coo Marlin, digging and scratching for wins, week after week, and always coming up empty handed.

After all that time in the racing spotlight, he never lost sight of his roots or who he was. Marlin was basically unaffected. He was still the same man who still lived in the same modest farmhouse on the outskirts of Columbia, Tenn. The same man who still thought that herding cattle was just as important as harnessing horsepower…

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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.

It’s sometimes said that if you did a good job managing something, it could run itself when you were gone.

National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) drag racing thrives today even though its founder, Wally Parks, died in 2007. Before that, though, he personified life in the fast lane. Except in Goltry, Okla., that is.

Even if you wanted to try it, the folks here would tell you it’s probably impossible to do 200 mph through this town of 268 people (give or take). Finding a straight line through Goltry is a problem, plain and simple…