Category Archives: Profiles

Profiles, Ed Cole
July 27, 2020

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

Many men have had a hand in running the largest automotive company in the world, but few were as un-status quo as Ed Cole.
Articulate, daring, decisive and charismatic, Cole could have been known for his devotion to safety while president of General Motors, including his push for air bags back when seat belts weren’t mandatory. Or he could have been known for his devotion to speed as chief engineer at Chevrolet, including the fact he pushed the original Corvette into production.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Mark Donohue
July 20, 2020

Overview

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

Mark Donohue might not have been the fastest race driver who ever lived, but he was one of the most brilliant. He, along with his friend and boss Roger Penske, were dedicated professionals who strongly believed that preparation and technical innovation were key to winning races. Time and again their immaculately turned-out cars proved the Penske adage that “effort equals results.”

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Colin McRae
June 15, 2020

Overview

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

“His driving skills were really something the country could be very proud of,” legendary racer Jackie Stewart told BBC Radio Scotland.
McRae had 25 victories in 146 races to his credit, driving for Subaru, Citroen, Ford and Skoda. He reached the podium 42 times and competed from Turkey to New Zealand and just about everywhere in between. He became regarded as Britain’s most successful rally driver of his generation, earning millions of dollars a year under his contract with Ford. But he was as down to earth as they came.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Stirling Moss
April 20, 2020

Overview

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

Although he never won a world championship, it was his off-track demeanor that, up until his death in London, England, on April 12 at age 90, made him one of the best-known — and best-liked — motor racing personalities. It is not so much what he said, but the fire-in-his-eyes way in which he talked about his first love that kept him in the public eye for so long.
Born in London in 1929, Stirling, along with his sister Pat (who would herself become a world-class rally driver) literally grew up around racing.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Malcolm Bricklin
February 17, 2020

Overview

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

Malcolm Bricklin was never really quite sure where it all went wrong, although his investors have a good idea.
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.
A rifle, wrist watch, skis and some clothing were the only assets he noted. His debts included three bank loans of $3 million or more and another few million from private investors.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Bobby Isaac
February 3, 2020

Overview

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

In the history of motorsports in North America, Isaac is the enigma wrapped in a race car. He didn’t search the spotlight. The spotlight found him. He’s the cliché hard-luck story with the unfortunate ending. His amazing rise from farm boy to mill worker to racing champion is the stuff of Hollywood. Only Hollywood was never really interested. And, truth be told, neither was Isaac.
Born in 1932 (or 1934, since accounts vary) in the heart of dirt-track country in the foothills of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge mountains, Isaac was one of nine children who at age 6 had to cope with the death of his father. Tragedy struck just 10 years later when his mother died.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Lyn St. James
August 12, 2019

Overview

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

It didn’t happen overnight. It took St. James eight years to get a sponsorship deal with Ford, then nine more before she could sign a deal with Dick Simon Racing, which allowed her to test at Indy. A year later, on the doorstep of Indy, everything seemed to go sideways when Ford curtailed its racing program and dropped her as a driver. “St. James shops around for rides,” Sports Illustrated wrote in 1990. After attending a few self-awareness seminars, St. James made up her mind and declared she would drive in the Indy 500.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, John Cooper
July 15, 2019

Overview

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

With each new Mini Cooper that rolls off the assembly line, John Cooper’s dream lives on. It just looks a little different now than it did when he worked in that dark and dirty little garage in Surbiton, England. Cooper’s name was above the door then. By now you know the Mini Cooper: The small vehicle that BMW turned into a new and improved icon.
Back then, however, Cooper was so much more than a chrome nameplate. He was synonymous with the car’s success.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Raymond Loewy
June 10, 2019

Overview

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

What shapes pop culture? Or who? Trains, planes and automobiles, Shell and Exxon gas stations, Coca Cola, Greyhound buses and Lucky Strike cigarettes. Raymond Loewy was in the middle of it all. This France-born American citizen was responsible for the look of those products and/or logos, plus many more. Loewy’s design studio could take full credit for the shape of many consumer items developed during the 20th century, including locomotives, ocean liners, sewing machines, copiers, cameras, vacuum cleaners, fountain drink dispensers, dishes and pencil sharpeners.

Please contact us to order this feature.

Profiles, Keith Black
May 27, 2019

Overview

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 proof was in performance: from 1975 to ’84, all National Records in the Top Fuel category were held by cars using Keith Black’s engine blocks. His involvement in developing a clutch that put power to the ground rather than smoking the tires most of the way down the track was paramount. Business would get so good, and word-of-mouth advertising so influential, that Black had to move his operation from its small start to South Gate, Calif., expanding the machine shop and stock parts store, then eventually going national.